Three Hundred Years of Glory and Gloom

Three Hundred Million Years of Attentional Selection

In this issue of Neuron, Winkowski and Knudsen reveal striking parallels between the attentional systems of the barn owl and the rhesus macaque. The observation of close similarities between the attentional systems of such distantly related organisms strongly suggest that key computational principles are at work.

Three hundred years of psychiatry 1535–1860

RICHARD HUNTER and IDA MACALPINE, Three hundred years ofpsychiatry 15351860, [reprint], Hartsdale, NY, Carlisle Publishing Inc., 1982, 8vo, pp. xxvi, 1107, illus., $95.00. Three hundred years ofpsychiatry is without doubt one of the best books ever produced on the history of psychiatry. Most collections of extracts are at most useful for casual browsing and conveying a flavour of original sourc...

Medicine at Harvard. The first three hundred years

One hundred years.

One of my earliest memories is of a tall, thin clergyman who arrived late for a meeting as I stood outside the Lodge room as an Entered Apprentice whilst the ceremony of a higher degree was in progress. He was the treasurer of the Lodge and his name was the Reverend Prebendary Charles Waton. He was the Vicar of St Benet Fink, Edmonton and was a Grand Officer. To me, he was a very important maso...

One Hundred Years of Uncertainty

UST about a hundred years ago, Albert Einstein began writing a paper that secured his place in the pantheon of humankind's greatest thinkers. With his discovery of special relativity, Einstein upended the familiar, thousands-yearold conception of space and time. To be sure, even a century later, not everyone has fully embraced Einstein's discovery. Nevertheless, say "Einstein" and most everyone...