Recipe for Madness

Orange and Sunlight: A Recipe for Blisters

Madness

here are clouds in the painting, of course. Almost any one of us would have included those clouds, thick with electricity and rainwater. And there is the wheat field, smudged out like an empty palm, orange beneath the storm-stricken sun. Surely, many of us would have insisted on the wheat as well. Through the middle of the wheat, a rutted road slices to the horizon and disappears beneath the cl...

A recipe for transplantation.

I am greatly honoured to be invited to give the Scott-Heron Lecture for 1983 but feel very inadequate to follow the distinguished doctors who have preceded me. The interest in the kidney was first aroused by a young woman with bilateral staghorn calculi, while working as a house surgeon with the late Mr. Cecil Woodside. Mr. Woodside was a general surgeon who had a special interest in the kidney...

A recipe for making

A recipe is given for making materials with negative refraction in acoustics, i.e., materials in which the group velocity is directed opposite to the phase velocity. The recipe consists of injecting many small particles into a bounded domain, filled with a material whose refraction coefficient is known. The number of small particles to be injected per unit volume around any point x is calculate...

A recipe for ALS.

that these auto-antibodies have been summoned to clean up the debris left by another process, such as a retroviral infection, an inappropriate stress response in a cell, or an exotoxin affecting a cell. Li et al (this issue) 9 have attempted to evaluate whether ALS IgG from human serum affects motor neurons in culture. They collected and purified IgG from six ALS patients and then applied the I...