The Great Comet and Schmidt's Comet

The evo-devo comet.

In his inspiring book Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), the late Stephen J. Gould explained why develop mental biology and evolution, two essential domains of the life sciences, had diverged during the course of the twentieth century; both disciplines had to reach independently a platform of mutual understanding, a theoretical framework wherein concepts are understood and accepted by both parties....

The comet initiative

There is growing recognition that insufficient attention is paid to the outcomes measured and reported in clinical trials. Selection of outcomes is crucial to trials designed to compare the effects of different interventions. For the findings to influence policy and practice, the chosen outcomes need to be relevant to patients and the public, healthcare professionals and others making decisions...

Excel and the Goldbach Comet

This article shows ways in which Excel can be used to explore the Goldbach Conjecture. We first show an elementary approach in which the Goldbach Comet is constructed by means of a table of values. Second, we give two simple VBA programs that generate substantially more data for the Goldbach Comet. We then show how the Comet can be seen as the agglomeration of individ...

2 the Comet Architecture 2

The Spectrum of Comet Austin

as Fig. 1 in a slightly modified form. Green et at. note that the 1128 A transition is optically forbidden because it occurs between two even parity oxygen atom states, whereas the selection rules permit transitions between odd and even parity only (2). However, they do not say that the 79176 A (7.92 gum) transition is equally forbidden, as both relevant states are odd (3). It is also forbidden...