Socrates did it before Gödel

Gödel and analytic philosophy : how did we get here ?

It is often said about Kurt Gödel that he was the greatest logician of the twentieth century. His work in mathematical logic, when it does not constitute the very ground out of which its various subfields grew and developed, made the continuation of the subject possible at a time when fundamental concepts had not even been identified, and proofs of key theorems – in those cases when they had be...

Did parkinsonism occur before 1817?

The Hippi did it

and colleagues have identified a protein called Hippi as one possible mediator of Huntington disease (HD) neuronal cell death. HD begins with expansion of the polyglutamine repeats in the huntingtin protein (Htt). This frees up Hip1 protein, which normally binds to Htt. Free Hip1 can then bind to the Hippi protein identified by Nicholson, and the two proteins join in a complex with procaspase 8...

It shouldn't have happened, but it did.

Penis captivus--did it occur?

The symptom of penis captivus during sexual intercourse has had a largely hearsay existence in medical history, and rumour has embellished the drama of its occurrence. It is not entirely mythical, however. It seems to have been a symptom of great rarity in former times and to have vanished perhaps completely in this century.