It is folklore that Albert Einstein’s greatest blunder occurred in 1917 when he introduced the cosmological constant term into his theory of general relativity [5]. At the time Einstein believed the universe to be static, and yet his original field equations, which describe how the gravitational influence of matter bends space-time, predicted an expanding (or contracting) one. To resolve this a...

muhammad ibn jarir al-tabari (839-923) was a moslem historian and religious scholar whose annals are the most important source for the early history of islam. he is also a renowned author of a monumental commentary on the koran. at tabari wrote history, theology and qur'anic commentary. his legal writings were published first and then continued to appear throughout his life. next were his ...

an academic title. Tesla was an autodidact. He started to read many works, memorizing whole books. Specialists supposed that T. had a photographic memory. In his autobiography he tells that many times he experienced detailed moments of inspiration. Since his childhood, T. was stricked by halucinations accompanied frequently by blinding flashes of light. Much of the effects of this peculiar affl...

On 13 November 1888, Nietzsche wrote to his close friend Franz Overbeck1 about Ecce Homo: ‘an absolutely important book, gives some psychological and even biographical details about me and my writings; people will at last see me. The tone of the work, one of gay detachment fraught with a sense of destiny, as is everything I write’ (1996: 324). Ecce Homo, an attempt at an autobiography, was conc...

Marc Jeannerod, neurologist and neurophysiologist, professor f Physiology at Lyon Claude Bernard university medical school nd one of the greatest French physiologists of the 20th century, assed away on July 1st 2011. He became the second editor-inhief of Neuropsychologia, after its founder Henry Hécaen, holding he position between 1981 and 1990, a position from which he ould observe, support, a...

As the most prominent novelist in contemporary Persian prose, Jalal Ale-Ahmad has had great influence on Persian writers, insofar as many writers have followed his suit. Employment of colloquial language is the characteristic style of his fiction. What makes his different, however, is mainly the employment of colloquialism in a subtle, precise and accurate way. Due to the extensive use of collo...

Throughout his long and fruitful career John Tyler Bonner [4] has made great strides in understanding basic issues of embryology [5] and developmental-evolutionary biology. Indeed, Bonner?s work on morphogenesis highlighted synergies between development and evolution [6] long before ? evo-devo? became a part of the scientific lingua franca. Princeton University [7] Press published his first boo...