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An English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician who founded The Spectator magazine

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The mysterious death of Georges Cuvier

The mysterious death of Georges Cuvier

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Although Guillain-Barré syndrome was officially described in 1916, other cases had been reported earlier, such as some cases of Landry's paralysis. This year is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), one of the fathers of comparative anatomy and palaeontology: he died at age 63 from an unknown disease. By reading medical reports about his last days and hours, we conclude Cuvier died from a severe form of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Moreover, we think this observation could be the first complete report of acute polyradiculoneuropathy with pharyngeal-cervical-brachial ...

The Myth of Masada: How Reliable Was Josephus, Anyway?

The Myth of Masada: How Reliable Was Josephus, Anyway?

After a protracted siege by the Roman tenth legion, the situation of the Sacarii, the Jewish rebels holed up on the mountain fortress of Masada, became hopeless. The Jewish rebels led by Elazar Ben Yair decided to kill themselves rather than be slaughtered, or fall captive and be enslaved by their enemies.This event, the suicide of nearly a thousand Jewish rebels, is one of the most famous stories in Jewish history. But did it happen?The only source we have for the story of Masada, and numerous other reported events from the time, is the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, auth...

The Discovery of Energy Conservation: Mayer and Joule

The Discovery of Energy Conservation: Mayer and Joule

galileo.phys.virginia.edu

Julius Robert Mayer was born in the mill town of Heilbronn, Germany, on the river Neckar, in 1814. The town’s whole economy was based on water power. The ten year old Mayer had a great idea: why not use part of a water wheel’s output to drive an Archimedean screw which would pump the water back up again? That way you wouldn’t have to rely on the river at all!He decided to build a model. His first try didn’t work—some water was pumped back up, but not enough. But surely that could be taken care of by putting in a gear train to make the screw run faster? Disappointingly, he found the water wheel had a tougher time turning the screw faster, and he needed to supply a lot more water over the wheel, so he was back to square one. Increasingly ingenious but unsuccessful fixes finally convinced him that in fact there was no solution: there was no way to arrange a machine to do work for nothing. This lesson stayed with Mayer for life.Mayer studied to become a medical doctor (his studies included one physics course) and in 1840, at age 25, he signed on as a ship’s doctor on a ship bound for the tropics. Shortly after reaching th...

Wu-Tang's GZA says 'lyricism is gone' from modern rap

Wu-Tang's GZA says 'lyricism is gone' from modern rap

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Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA has bemoaned the lack of lyricism in modern hip hop. In an open letter written for Medium entitled The Lost Art of Lyricism, the rapper praised science, artists such as Nas and lamented the absence of storytelling in contemporary rap. “I’m sure there are great lyricists out there today,” he says, “but when you look at mainstream hip-hop, lyricism is gone.”There are some artists out there that think they’re great storytellers, but they’re not. Nowadays there are certain things I don’t hear anymore from rappers: I haven’t heard the word “MC” in so long; I...

The mysterious death of Georges Cuvier

The Myth of Masada: How Reliable Was Josephus, Anyway?

The Discovery of Energy Conservation: Mayer and Joule

Wu-Tang's GZA says 'lyricism is gone' from modern rap

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Cruel despot or wise reformer? Napoleon’s two faces go on view

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Cruel despot or wise reformer? Napoleon’s two faces go on view

A young, well-read and highly intelligent Frenchman comes to power, defeating an ultra-rightwing group. He has ambitions to reform France and place his country at the heart of a unified Europe. Britain, with its constant demands for free trade with the continent, is a constant irritant. French ex...

Origen of Alexandria: the study of the Scriptures as transformation of the readers into images of the God of love

Religion

Origen of Alexandria: the study of the Scriptures as transformation of the readers into images of the God of love

For Origen, the purpose of reading the Scriptures is to be transformed more and more into the likeness of God, who is Love, through the Logos embodied in the Scriptures. This article first situated Origen's approach to the Scriptures in the broad agreement over the centuries that the Scriptures a...

Jeremy Bentham on Freedom of the Press, Public Opinion, and Good Government

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Jeremy Bentham on Freedom of the Press, Public Opinion, and Good Government

Two major defences of the freedom of expression were articulated in the nineteenth-century utilitarian tradition. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) was concerned with establishing the freedom of expression, and in particular the freedom of the press, as a protection against despotism and thereby further...