The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The German dramatist Carl Zuckmayer once claimed for the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin a preeminent position among legends that have been influential in both folklore and literature.1 Even those who question Zuckmayer's view might find good grounds for reviewing the legend's history in folkloric and literary tradition. In 1984 the town of Hameln (Hamelin) in Germany celebrated the seven hu...

Abortion and the Pied Piper of compromise.

IFRS monopoly: the Pied Piper of financial reporting

The links among better financial reporting, better markets, and better economy and society are arguable, but they remain poorly understood. The addition of IFRS to the set of available alternatives may improve these linkages, but granting them monopoly status does not. Claims that the universal adoption of IFRS as a single set of high-quality principles-based standards will yield global compara...

Olfactory Axon Pathfinding Who Is the Pied Piper?

Mammalian olfactory sensory neurons that express a particular odorant receptor (OR) project axons to the same few glomeruli in the olfactory bulb. In this issue of Neuron, Vassalli et al. use OR minigenes that coexpress histochemical markers and show that the determinants in the sensory neurons required to generate the stereotyped olfactory bulb map are the same as those needed for appropriate ...

Book Reviews: The Fifth Generation Fallacy: Why Japan is Betting Its Future on Artificial Intelligence

But the way Hirst has souped up his thesis with general expository matter has had not altogether satisfactory results. The textbook-like sections against which the accounts of his own work are set treat some topics, like structural ambiguity, at length, but do not form a very well-balanced or comprehensive whole. They nevertheless dilute Hirst's own work enough to prevent the reader from experi...