Florida’s mild, sub-tropical climate has long received praise as delightful and healthful. However, it also fostered tuberculosis, malaria, and other endemic tropical diseases, for which there was no known cure in the nineteenth century. Periodic visitations of dreaded epidemic diseases added to the health hazard. Indeed, prior to the twentieth century, certain diseases affected the pattern of ...

In his delightful memoir Love & Math [1] , mathematician Edward Frenkel shares the following anecdote about wireless telegraphy:

BACKGROUND Early detection is crucial to improve melanoma prognosis. Different diagnostic guides such as the ABCD rule (asymmetry [A], irregularity of borders [B], unevenness of distribution of color [C], and diameter [D]) have been proposed to identify melanoma, but their efficacy in real life is questionable. We investigated the recognition process of melanoma by dermatologists to use as a mo...

In Mongolia the cat is viewed ambiguously. It seen either as a good, bad or an ugly creature, mix of all these. This ambiguity stems from cat’s function mirror Mongolian society, where transition to socialism and post-socialism was traumatic, interrupting cosmological order. paper explains these diverse images by analysing old legends modern folk stories about felines.

Margharita P. Beloch was the first person, in 1936, to realize that origami (paperfolding) constructions can solve general cubic equations and thus are more powerful than straightedge and compass constructions. We present her proof. In doing this we use a delightful (and mostly forgotten?) geometric method due to Eduard Lill for finding the real roots of polynomial equations.

We review a number of illustrative example programs for the Java Memory Model (JMM) [6, 3], relating them to the original design goals and giving intuitive explanations (which can be made precise). We consider good, bad and ugly examples. The good examples are allowed behaviours in the JMM, showing possibilities for non sequentially consistent executions and reordering optimisations. The bad ex...

We used implicit and explicit measures to study whether “real” uncanny faces (by of Botox users very ugly people) will be associated with perceptions bad moral character social avoidance. Implicit showed that were more strongly negative aesthetic evaluations (“ugliness”) than evaluation (“moral disgust”). At the level, participants preferred greater distance from neutral inferred they shared fe...