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Srinivasa Ramanujan

Indian mathematician who is considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians ever

Nino Rota

An Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who composed the music for the first two fil...

Garry Kasparov

A Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist and comm...

William Ellery Channing

William Ellery Channing

The foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States and one of Unitarianism's leading theologians.

Ainan Celeste Cawley

Ainan Celeste Cawley

A Singaporean child prodigy

Richard Wagner

A German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas.

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Children’s understanding of Aesop’s fables: relations to reading comprehension and theory of mind

Children’s understanding of Aesop’s fables: relations to reading comprehension and theory of mind

frontiersin.org

This paper describes a study of children’s developing understanding of story characters’ intentions and the resulting lesson that one can take away from Aesop’s well-known fables. The first study examines how fables understanding changes across grades from Junior Kindergarten (4 year-olds) to Grade 6 (12 year-olds), and the second study examines how “theory of mind” development in Kindergarten is related to fables understanding.One of the goals of schooling is to bring children to an appreciation of stories: fantasy and fun, escapism, emotional arousal, food for thought, shared discu...

George de Hevesy in America

George de Hevesy in America

jnm.snmjournals.org

Neither of the authors of this Letter to the Editor was aware of Hevesy’s association with Cornell University despite our longstanding ties to Cornell until one of us (William. C. Klingensmith) noticed the association in Hevesy’s biographic page on the official Nobel website (6). Klingensmith obtained both his undergraduate degree and his medical degree from Cornell in Ithaca and New York City, respectively, and spent his career in nuclear medicine. Joseph R. Osborne did his nuclear medicine training at Columbia University and has subsequently been a faculty member of Weill Cornell Medical ...

Of Leviathan and lockdowns

Of Leviathan and lockdowns

The coronavirus has propelled Thomas Hobbes, one of philosophy’s leading bogeymen, back into the spotlight.It’s unsurprising that two conservative publications in the U.S., the National Review and the American Conservative, have already cast the epidemic as the resurgence of Leviathan, Hobbes’s 17th century vision of a mighty state whose restrictions we accept in a grand bargain to save our lives.There are certainly grounds to support this view of Hobbes as the hard-line “Monster of Malmesbury.” England’s first heavyweight philosopher did indeed argue that we should submit (in...

Theodor Schwann

Theodor Schwann

THE death is announced of the distinguished physiologist whose name will be for ever associated with the history of the ‘cell-theory.’ He was born at Neuss near Dusseldorf in 1810, and was therefore in his seventy-second year. The most important fact in the history of his mental development, is that he came under the influence of the greatest teacher and worker in biological science whom Germany rich in such men, has ever produced, namely Johannes Müller. Schwann was by nine years the junior of his great master, who died whilst in the full tide of active work, at the comparatively early age...

Children’s understanding of Aesop’s fables: relations to reading comprehension and theory of mind

George de Hevesy in America

Of Leviathan and lockdowns

Theodor Schwann

Alan Guth

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss' 241st Birthday Honored With a Google Doodle. Here's What to Know about the Mathematician

Mathematics

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss' 241st Birthday Honored With a Google Doodle. Here's What to Know about the Mathematician

A German mathematician, physicist and astronomer, Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss rose from humble origins to become one of the world’s greatest minds.Born in 1777 in Brunswick, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, Gauss was the only child of poor parents who had received little or no formal ed...

Top 11 Things You Didn't Know About Nikola Tesla

Engineering Innovation

Top 11 Things You Didn't Know About Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla in or around 1890, when the inventor was in his mid-30s. | Photo is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.11. Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in the Austrian Empire, now Croatia. He was the fourth of five children. After a checkered academic career i...

Barbara McClintock on Defining the Unstable Genome

Genetics

Barbara McClintock on Defining the Unstable Genome

From examination of instability of genic action at a number of known loci in maize, it is concluded that mutations need not express changes in genes, but may be the result of changes affecting the control of genic action. B. McClintock 1953.It is with this prescient statement that Barbara ...