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Henri Matisse

A French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship

Diego Velázquez

A leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age whose most noticeable works include The Surrender of B...

Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens

A Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day B...

Vyasa

A legendary sage portrayed in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, and regarded as the compiler of that work

Maimonides

12th-century Sephardic Jewish rabbi & scholar who is considered to be the greatest Jewish scholar...

Akrit Jaswal

An Indian adolescent who performed his first surgery at the age of 7.

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Setting it straight with curved space

Setting it straight with curved space

Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann ushered in a new era of geometry on June 10, 1854, when he delivered his classic lecture “On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Foundations of Geometry”. Join A.S.Ganesh as he unravels the tale of how a shy and timid person with fantastic mathematical ability laid the groundwork for curved surfaces and higher dimensions...Our understanding of the universe was overhauled in a period of 10 years from 1905-1915 when German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein gave us his special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity. His descriptio...

Down to Earth With: Jack Horner

Down to Earth With: Jack Horner

earthmagazine.org

As one of the world’s most successful dinosaur hunters and a leader in the field of dinosaur growth and development, Jack Horner needs little introduction for paleontology enthusiasts. His first big discovery, the dinosaur Maiasaura, or “Mother Lizard,” was found with the first known dinosaur eggs in the Western Hemisphere and the first evidence of colonial nesting. This discovery dispelled the notion that dinosaurs were bad mothers. Other notable discoveries include the first dinosaur embryos and the largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. Horner also served as technical advisor for the “Juras...

John Law: Financial genius or charlatan?

John Law: Financial genius or charlatan?

What have Dutch tulips, the Mississippi Company of France, the English South Sea Company, dotcom and American real estate got in common? They are all examples of financial ’bubbles’: initial euphoria gives way to the realisation of exaggeration and disillusionment, followed eventually by the bursting of the bubble.In the National Bank’s museum there are two old banknotes: paper inscribed with black letters and numbers on a simple white background. Made by the Imprimerie Royale, watermarked Billet de Banque.However, the story behind this banknote contrasts with its simplicity: ...

From Paul Morphy To Wei Yi

From Paul Morphy To Wei Yi

The Chinese chess prodigy Wei Yi wins the hearts of fans with every new tournament he plays. It is not just his phenomenal results (with his current rating, he should be the highest-rated 16-year-old ever!), but also his sparkling style of play that attracts attention of the whole chess world.If you deduce from the title of the article that Wei Yi is reincarnated Paul Morphy, I am not going to argue, even though the point of the title was different.Today, we are going to discuss a powerful tactical pattern that was employed by Paul Morphy and which is as deadly today as it was...

Setting it straight with curved space

Down to Earth With: Jack Horner

John Law: Financial genius or charlatan?

From Paul Morphy To Wei Yi

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Medicine and science in the life of Luigi Galvani

Biology

Medicine and science in the life of Luigi Galvani

Together with its companion paper, dealing with the contribution of Luigi Galvani to the history of electrophysiology, this article provides a biographical sketch of the scientist of Bologna in the occasion of the bicentenary of his death. Studies on Galvani have focused mainly on his "discovery"...

Alexander Fleming, The Discoverer of the Antibiotic Effects of Penicillin

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Alexander Fleming, The Discoverer of the Antibiotic Effects of Penicillin

Bacteria are very important for us. They live on us and inside us, and we use them to obtain certain nutrients from food, among many other things (Read more in this Young Minds article; We Are Never Alone: Living with the Human Microbiota). But some bacteria, called pathogens, can also cause infe...

How the Grimm Brothers Saved the Fairy Tale

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How the Grimm Brothers Saved the Fairy Tale

Between 1812 and 1857, seven editions of their tales appeared, each one different from the last, until the final, best-known version barely resembled the first. Given that the first edition has recently been honored in bicentenary celebrations throughout the world, it is ...