Professor Yale Kamisar: "Awesome"

Surgery at Yale in 1843: Professor Jonathan Knight's lectures.

ing from the part a portion of its fluids, and consequently lessening the pain and tension" [20]. Cooper wrote, "the indication for bleeding is a hard pulse. In this state of the pulse the diameter of the vessel is diminished, yet the action is exceedingly strong, and each pulsation feels like the vibration of a wire: whenever, therefore, you find this description of pulse, you will be justifie...

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Awesome universal chirp

n 1978, while I was an undergraduate student, Kip Thorne came to Stanford University to give a seminar on a proposed search for gravitational waves. The auditorium quickly filled with experts and inquisitive students like me. As Thorne described a quest for these ripples in space-time, the audience grew palpably skeptical. Albert Einstein had predicted the existence of gravitational waves based...

Awesome universal chirp

n 1978, while I was an undergraduate student, Kip Thorne came to Stanford University to give a seminar on a proposed search for gravitational waves. The auditorium quickly filled with experts and inquisitive students like me. As Thorne described a quest for these ripples in space-time, the audience grew palpably skeptical. Albert Einstein had predicted the existence of gravitational waves based...

The awesome lysosome.

In the early 50s, Christian De Duve identified a new cellular structure, the lysosome, defined as the cell’s “suicide bag” (de Duve, 2005). Sixty years later, it is clear that the lysosome greatly exceeded the expectations of its discoverer. Over 50 different types of lysosomal storage diseases have been identified, each due to the deficiency or malfunction of a specific lysosomal protein. In a...