The travels of a young man feigning subarachnoid haemorrhage in London and Scotland, over the past year, are documented. The origins of the Munchausen Tales are reviewed.

This past spring, estuarine ecologist Denise Breitburg and her postdoctoral fellow, Richard Fulford (both of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)) brought together 20 ecologists and fisheries biologists from academic institutions, government agencies and the Smithsonian for a three-day workshop to attempt to “disentangle” the effects of eutrophication (excessive nutrient input) ...

Mathematical modeling is being increasingly recognized within the biomedical sciences as an important tool that can aid the understanding of biological systems. The heavily regulated cell renewal cycle in the colonic crypt provides a good example of how modeling can be used to find out key features of the system kinetics, and help to explain both the breakdown of homeostasis and the initiation ...

Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm. It aims to share data, calculations, and services transparently among users of a massive grid. Although the industry has started selling cloud-computing products, the software engineering infrastructure and application model are still unclear. In this paper, we compare cloud computing with service-oriented computing and pervasive computing. Bot...

with a young lad on its back. In his right hand, each rider held a long spear that he raised just before attempting to catch a ring suspended over his head with its tip. I was only a child visiting my cousins in the countryside, but I remember the event vividly, and later on I would realize that I was witnessing an ancient tradition upheld through generations since the early Middle Ages. The on...