Kelsen Lives

Commentary (Kelsen): Adjuvant Therapy for Colorectal Cancer

As well-outlined by Drs. Beavan and Goldberg, in the past 20 years, the outlook for these patients has gone from pessimism that anything more than surgery was useful to certainty that we can markedly decrease the risk of recurrence. At least some steps have been made in clearly identifying which patients should receive adjuvant therapy. There is general agreement on current effective regimens, ...

Transforming lives.

Parallel Lives

California’s Sierra Nevada mountains are dotted with populations of checkerspot butterflies that belong to the same species but lead separate lives. The populations are differentiated by the host plants where females lay their eggs, with one type favoring Collinsis torreyi (blue-eyed Mary) and the other favoring Pedicularis semibarbata (pine lousewort). Other than that, the checkerspots are muc...

Jung's lives.

Forty published life histories of C. G. Jung are grouped into eight categories: autobiography, hagiographies, pathographies, professional biographies, intellectual biographies, illustrated biographies, religious biographies, and joint Jung/Freud biographies. Each work is briefly reviewed in terms of its scope, its main contributions to the biographical literature on Jung, and its principal shor...

Georeferenced lives

To give a georeference means to give a reference as existing in the physical space of Earth. This procedure is widely used for the location of archaeological, historical and other sites when geographic information systems (GIS) are used. Here we are proposing to georeference the lives of famous people (in the paper, Newton and Schiaparelli) for teaching purposes, to increase the appeal of some ...