489 March 2015 P page through this month’s issue of AnESthESioLogy for “The Monuments Men: in the history of Anesthesia, too,” an engaging historical article by Professor Luca Borghi of Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, italy.1 The author recounts how a sculptured bust of American anesthesia pioneer horace Wells was concealed during the nazi occupation of Paris. As the article’s title sugge...

Human beings have been preparing fermented beverages for more than 5000 years. Materials excavated from Egyptian tombs dating to the third millennium B.C. demonstrate the operations used in making beer and leavened bread. The history of fermentation, whereby sugar is converted to ethanol by the action of yeast, is also a history of chemistry. The word gas was coined by van Helmont in 1610 to de...

The main interest of this essay is the analysis of the document from the State Archive in Venice (file: Capi del Consiglio de' Dieci: Lettere di Rettori e di altre cariche) which is connected with the episode from 1748 when the inhabitants of the village žrnove on the island of Korčula in Croatia opened tombs on the local cemetery in the fear of the vampires treating. This essay try to show som...

Gereja Blenduk merupakan suatu salah satu bangunan tua yang cukup ikonik di Kota lama Semarang, dimana keberadaannya tidak lepas dari perkembangan yakni keterkaitan dengan periode waktu pembangunannya pada pendudukan Belanda Indonesia, serta fungsinya sebagai sebuah peribadatan umat kristiani, dan juga letaknya stategis jantung Semarang. Aspek Monumentalitas dapat ditinjau beberapa aspek dikate...

The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. For the famous Giza Pyramids, the Sphinx, and surrounding tombs and temples, just west of modern Cairo (3rd millennium BCE), the Giza Project at Harvard University is blending older traditional archives (dig photos, archaeological drawings, object metadata) with realistic...

Abstract. Mixed reality provides on-the-spot and real-time data access capabilities by making virtual models information more intuitive accessible. Furthermore, allowing the operator to perceive 3D as holograms would allow for a natural straightforward manipulation of perceived content permitting augmentation real objects with various levels data. This can be accomplished appropriately register...

Computational thinking will influence everyone in every field of endeavour. This vision poses a new educational challenge for our society, especially for our children. In thinking about computing, we need to be attuned to the three drivers of our field: science, technology and society. Accelerating technological advances and monumental societal demands force us to revisit the most basic scienti...