Prof. L. J. Henderson

Tribute to L. J. Henderson, a remarkable physiologist, and the founder of the American School of Sociology (1878-1942).

“Like a machine, any organism, even the simplest, is a functional unit coherent and integrated.” The man who wrote this sentence is the Nobel Laureate, Jacques Monod. He was and remains a giant of molecular biology who devoted his entire scientific career to molecular bacterial genetics and therefore could hardly be viewed as a classical physiologist interested in vertebrate physiology. I am no...

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A 1994 University of Chicago study entitled The Social Organization of Sexuality found that on average men have 74% more opposite­gender partners than women, confirming a view that men are more promiscuous. But whoever reported this finding was lying or confused! We’ll show you how to use the properties of vertex degrees in a graph to prove this. Let’s recast opposite­gender partnering in graph...

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In the history of the Rice Dramatic Club, there have been occasions when it has fallen in the power of the or ganization to produce outstanding modern dramas by contemporary playwrights—plays rich in enter ta inment quality, subtle in humor ; plays which live in the minds of the a u dience long af ter the final curtain falls. Such plays as "The Roynl Family," "Hay Fever ," and "Hell Bent for He...