I suppose that every teacher of elementary genetics has at one time or another encountered the b lief that in the absence of counteracting factors there should be three times as many dominant as recessive phenotypes in the population. It was this statement that induced G. H. HARDY in 1908 to write his famous paper. He started out somewhat apologetically, saying: “I am reluctant to intrude in a ...

Osteotomy of the neck of the first metatarsal bone has been practised for many years in the treatment of hallux valgus. Although various techniques have been described (Hohmann 1948 ; Mitchell, Fleming, Allen, Glenney and Sanford 1958), we are aware of only one detailed report of results (Mitchell et a!. 1958). This paper presents the results of osteotomy in eighty-two feet, and attempts to def...

The existence of a 60-100 year periodic variation in solar and/or solar-terrestrial phenomena has been a matter of dispute for many years. A wide variety of data sets previously have been analyzed, and the results of the analyses have been interpreted as showing evidence ither for or against such a variation. However, all data sets that are proxy for solar wind in the ecliptic at 1 AU show vari...

Science is said tobe free inSweden in the sense that scientists areallowed todo researchonany subject, but there isone very serious limitation: theworkhas tobe funded.The latter aspecthasbecome increasingly evidentduring later years. In many ways, research was more free decades ago whenmore money was directly allocated to universities and their departments. Inthisway, islandsofresearchcouldmore...

This article is a reflection on Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the famous novels by George Orwell, British writer and journalist. It shows through techno-critical analysis that, although novel science-fiction in that it part dystopian approach to literary genre, also inspires expresses current techno-scientific innovations emblematic figure Big Brother. Moreover, just as Brother only symbol INGSO...