The Korean Peninsular denuclearization talks between Pyongyang and Washington have hit a stalemate since the second summit between top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi in late February ended without any agreement. The two leaders first met...
Ad 3: Schoenemann and Clarkson pick one of our images in which they claim to see a more likely example of a crystalline cone (Fig. 2f, g)2. This interpretation is based on a comparison with crystalline cones found in the compound eyes of a Jurassic crustacean. However, this structure ap...
It is known that organisms with daytime activity tend to have an optical sensitivity of eyes to white light below one, twilight activity from 1 to 100, and nighttime activity of more than 100 [19]. In the mollusk, the value of the optical sensitivity of the eye for single photoreceptor ce...
Researchers in Leipzigfound that glial cells, which also span the retinal depth and connect to the cones, have an interesting attribute. These cells are essential for metabolism, but they are also denser than other cells in the retina. In the transparent retina, this higher density (and corresp...
"Our goal is 20 gold medals, and the result is more encouraging. The athletes had good preparation and worked very hard. I believe they have done good jobs," said Furukawa. He also pointed out that some world leading Japanese athletes did not show up in the Asiad, which offered some yo...
An adherent of a more spiritualist, mystical German scientific tradition, Ewald Hering, a scholarship kid from Saxony, had been fighting with Helmholtz since Hering got his MD from the University of Leipzig in 1860. (I'm particularly indebted to R. Steven Turner's book In the Eye's Mind:...
cantatas for the Christmas holidays in 1734, one to be performed on each of the individual feast days during the services in Leipzig’s main churches, Saint Thomas and Saint Nicolai. wdl.org 约翰•塞巴斯蒂安•巴赫(Johann Sebastian Bach,1685–1750 年)于 1734 年创作了六部 圣诞节圣乐曲,以...
Concert was scheduled to start at 8 pm... but no! An opening band played for 45 minutes, then a 15 minute wait for them to remove all their instruments, and then... another opening band playing for about 40 minutes, and 20 more to get their stuff away. ...
¹¹In using the termJudaisationIintend to referto aprocessof increasingincorporation ofJewish works andauthors into themyth ofasingleoriginal ancient wisdom, wherethe Bible andJewish literature (i.e. the part of it con-sidered to be more ancient) came to be seen as sources thatmaintained...
The US is the first nation to make vessels function on Mars: in July 1976 Viking 1 is the first spaceship to successful land on the planet and complete its mission. It is followed in September by Viking 2. Their combined missions allow them to collect more than 50,000 photographs and sho...