For senior Carlos Erazo, an average week is not only occupied with college papers, readings and projects, but also with filming and producing a weekly video for his Youtube channel — one with more than 62,000 active followers. When he was a sophomore at Calvin, Erazo decided to combine a lifelong interest in video creation and editing with a growing desire to connect spiritually with Spanish-sp...

The second half of the 19th century was time with highest number mummy finds on island Tenerife, a minimum 25 individuals. Part findings were due to chance finds, some them sent Royal Academy History and National Archaeological Museum in Madrid or deposited Casilda collection Tacoronte, but three cases they commissions for foreign museums, as happened Araya (1862), San Andrés (1890) ravine Sant...

On a recent visit to Marburg, a charming ancient university city in Hessen, the neighbouring state to the south of the one I live in-a city that boasts the oldest gothic church in Germany-I was pleased to learn that the name is still revered of a 19th century Hessian general practitioner who emigrated to London and there performed his pioneer and classical researches on the chemical composition...

If you mention the name William Osler to medical students or young doctors, they will almost certainly associate him with “Osler’s nodes” – the painful swellings that occur in infective endocarditis, and which he first identified. Much older doctors are likely to know of Osler mainly as the author of the first modern textbook of medicine. His “Principles and Practice of Medicine,” first publish...

The year was 1975; the first issue of Journal of Clinical Microbiology (JCM) was published. The advertisers included Microbiological Associates, Clinical Sciences, Inc., and General Diagnostics. Fifty U.S. dollars bought a 1-year subscription. The subjects of the published articles included Proteus morganii, a novel satellite test for Haemophilus spp., and rapid hippurate hydrolysis testing of ...

On the basis of four existing manuscripts, a Byzantine “spiritually beneficial tale” is published for first time. This an obvious translation from Greek but its original nowhere attested. The action takes place in Jerusalem and surroundings, actors are pre-Islamic Arabs. In all probability, story was written down at beginning 6th century; hidden message legend questionability “barbaric” convers...

In 1985 the mathematician Boris Weisfeiler disappeared while hiking alone in a remote area of Chile. At the time, he was a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University and was widely recognized for his work in algebraic groups. What happened to him remains a mystery, and to this day it is not known whether he is still alive. Born in the Soviet Union, Weisfeiler received his Ph.D. i...

The Belfast blitzes of 1941 are blamed in our family for the scrofula of my younger brother and sister and myself. Guinea pigs and rabbits at Musgrave Park proved that each of us had bovine derived TB infection caused by failure to pasteurize milk when tuberculin-tested milk was not available. The clinical head of Harvard Medical School’s anti-tuberculosis effort contacted his boss, Professor M...