TROUGH HER EYES. THE ADVENTURES OF MARGARET MCKELVY BIRD

Ethics and politics in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent And Bozorg Alavi’s Her Eyes

In this paper, the writers try to compare two authors, the Iranian leftist, Bozorg Alavi (1904-1997) and the Polish Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Although these two writers have different attitudes to Socialism and the question of revolution, both share Romantic idealism and a tragic sense of personal and social life. Moreover, they both are precursors of modernist novel in their countries, and sh...

Oil droplets of bird eyes: microlenses acting as spectral filters.

An important component of the cone photoreceptors of bird eyes is the oil droplets located in front of the visual-pigment-containing outer segments. The droplets vary in colour and are transparent, clear, pale or rather intensely yellow or red owing to various concentrations of carotenoid pigments. Quantitative modelling of the filter characteristics using known carotenoid pigment spectra indic...

Margaret Ridley Charlton, medical librarian and historian: on evaluation of her career.

Margaret Charlton, Assistant Librarian of the McGill Medical Library from 1895 to 1914, played a leading role in the formation of the Medical Library Association, of which she became the first Secretary. Her career at McGill's Medical Library appears to have been a colourful one and brought her into contact with many of the faculty. After leaving McGill in 1914, she was appointed as Librarian a...

A child playing hide-and-seek runs to the corner of the room and covers her eyes with a pillow while her father counts to ten, believing that if she cannot see her father, then her father cannot see her

The amazing adventures of robotrat.

By using electrical brain stimulation to deliver both 'virtual' tactile cues and rewards to freely roaming rats, Talwar et al. have been able to instruct animals remotely to navigate through complex mazes and natural environments they have never visited before. These results provide both an elegant alternative way to train animals and a new approach to study basic neurophysiological principles ...