Captain John D. S. Pendlebury

Could Captain John Smith’s Mattoume Have Been Wild Rice?

An early English explorer of North America, Captain John Smith reported use of a wild food called mattoume by native inhabitants of Virginia. Botanical identification of mattoume has been a mystery. In an attempt to solve the mystery of which plant species Captain Smith observed, I compare the botanical descriptions of wild rice and several other possible species that were mentioned either in s...

John D. Chodera - vita

Assistant Member, Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute 2012– Assistant Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 2012– Assistant Professor, Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology Program, 2013– Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences Independent Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), 2008–20...

Rigden, John S.: Rabi’s Resonance Method

John Tyndall ’ S Religion : a Fragment

Both contemporaries and historians have focused on the high-profile 1874 Belfast Address in which John Tyndall was widely perceived as promulgating atheism. Although some historians have instead interpreted him as a pantheist or an agnostic, it is clear that any such labels do not accurately capture Tyndall’s religious position throughout his life. By contrast, this paper seeks to chart Tyndall...

Captain Thomas Dover

were disbanded because of hooliganism. They have been restarted in this century and take place on the first weekend in May. The games consisted of various contests at single stick (backsword), wrestling, running, jingling, Morris dancing, greyhound coursing and horse racing. It is said that Shakespeare, whose aunt Joan Arden lived at Barton on the Heath, attended the games and included scenes f...