Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, a 2023 Netflix series inspired by the lives of King George III and Queen Charlotte, tells the captivating story of a blossoming romance tainted by George’s severe bouts of mental illness and distressing treatments.
The comparative method has long been a fundamental exploratory tool in evolutionary biology, but this venerable approach was revolutionized in 1985, when Felsenstein published "Phylogenies and the Comparative Method" in The American Naturalist. This article forced comparative biologists to start thinking phylogenetically when conducting statistical...
James Jurin (1684–1750) was an eighteenth century physician and polymath (Rus- nock 2004). As a scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, he became acquainted with the work of Sir Issac Newton, of which he became an enthusiastic advocate. Af- ter leaving Cambridge he travelled with Mordecai Carey, later Bishop of Killala and Achonry, to continental Eu...
A footpath in the Square de la Tour Saint-Jacques in Paris is named for the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky (1889–1950). It was in the nearby Théâtre du Châtelet that the ‘God of Dance’ astounded audiences and scandalized critics with his pioneering choreography. However, it would not last—in March 1919, Nijinsky was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and the wo...
The strategies that experts have used to share information about social causes have historically been top-down, meaning the most influential messages are believed to come from planned events and campaigns. However, more people are independently engaging with social causes today than ever before, in part because online platforms allow them to instan...
10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.03.022 / Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences / 44 / 3 / 316-326
Published in Acta médica portuguesa
We propose that hypodescent-the assignment of mixed-race individuals to a minority group-is an emergent feature of basic cognitive processes of learning and categorization. According to attention theory, minority groups are learned by attending to the features that distinguish them from previously learned majority groups. Selective attention create...
An oil painting by Claude Monet, Port-Goulphar, Belle-Ile 1887 (collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales), was examined to determine both the identity of the pigments used by the artist in this painting and his technique of mixing colors and laying paint on the canvas. The extremely complex construction of the painting was revealed by optic...
