Witold Szalonek Seen Through His Own Views

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen seen through his own eyes. A review of his memoirs.

In the course of the century which has elapsed since the discovery of the leprosy bacillus in 1873 by C. H. Armauer Hansen (1841-1912 ), several biographers and medical historians have stressed the importance of this event. 2 The life span of C. H . Armauer Hansen covers a period when bacteriology was a growing specialty in medical science. Earlier suggestions that certain diseases might be ass...

Gramsci and His Views

Dr. D avidson’s book, w hich is in fact a fusion of his own ideas w ith the Ita lian philosopher Gramsci, w ill m ake in teresting reading for m ost com m unists and those of the left who are genuinely in terested in radical social change. I t w ill be appreciated by m any ran k and file communists, in particu lar, as the first real work to give a guide to the Ita lian style m arxism and the p ...

Interaction Views in Architectures for ActionBlocks - To each his own Jeanette Eriksson

This master thesis is done in collaboration with Space and Virtuality studio of the Interactive Institute in Malmö. The project ActionBlocks, at the Space studio, relate to the requirements concerning hardware for ubiquitous computing. A system of intelligent building blocks is developed to be able to build functional HiFi prototypes fast. The building blocks are distributed in space and small,...

Did Menzel Paint His Own Babinski Sign?

Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905), one of the greatest German realistic painters of the nineteenth Century (1), painted his right foot from normal perspective with the great toe extended (Figure 1B). The other toes seem to be relaxed. There are no suggestions of foot deformity like pes cavus. Menzel finished that painting, oil on wood panel, in 1876 (1). He gave no official explanation, why he had ...

Carmine Melino: a Universe by his own.