Unknown Roads (poem)

Leaving an Unknown Maze with One-Way Roads

We consider the problem of escaping from an unknown polygonal maze under limited resources. The maze may have passages that can be traversed in only one direction. It is well-known that in a setting without ’one-way roads’, the Pledge algorithm always finds a path out of an unknown maze provided that such a path exists. We extend the Pledge algorithm for our type of environments and show the co...

Life: A Poem

A critical care holiday poem.

Autophagy: research topic, painting, poem, dance

E ffective teachers do no simply present information for students to learn by rote for a good grade. Rather, they provide an environment in which students can engage with course material and both learn and interpret it for their own interest and goals. With this in mind, I have spent a considerable amount of time developing an active learning format for my introductory biology course, including...

Avicenna's Medical Didactic Poem: Urjuzehtebbi.

Historical research shows that many physicians experienced in medical sciences are also talented in art, literature and poetry. Avicenna was a sage who was skilled in poetry in addition to philosophy and medicine. He wrote two different types of poetry: those meant to be enjoyed for their literary qualities of novelty and imagination, and his didactic Urjuzeh. Didactic poems are different from ...