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...Bookstaber has run a quantitative equity hedge fund and has overseen risk management at several large hedge funds and investment banks. He is the author of A Demon of Our Own Design (Wiley, 2007). He can be reached through his blog rick.bookstaber.com...
...what if we could actually see this founding father of modern science in the throes of discovery? Horst Bredekamp, a professor of art history at Berlin's Humboldt University and author of a new book entitled Galilei der Künstler (Galileo the Artist), says we can. He and other experts in Germany and Italy have concluded that five watercolor sketches of a mustard-colored moon drawn in a printer's proof of Sidereus Nuncius are by Galileo's own hand. The first printing of the legendary treatise included copper engravings of the moon believed to be based on different...
...accounts for about 9% of all pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. "We were kind of concerned, and we wanted to either confirm or refute these previous findings," says Dr. Jun Zhang, a senior investigator and epidemiologist at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and co-author of the current study, because "the number of women who have had medical abortions is staggering both worldwide...
...large cohort and national-registry information. What's more, the focus of the previous study was not abortion per se, but general risk factors for ectopic pregnancy, including women's history of smoking and pelvic infectious disease. "In some ways, they found this association accidentally," says Zhang, "and the author did not provide any explanation. We weren't sure whether that finding was just by chance or whether it was real...
Anton Chekhov once visited Sakhalin Island to report on the condition of its prisoners and left a tagline unlikely to be adopted by the tourist bureau - if there were one: "Now I have seen Sakhalin, which is hell." And this from an author famous for understatement. Exiled at the far eastern end of the Russian Federation, just north of Japan, Sakhalin Island was where imperial Russia once sent some of its most unfortunate convicts, on a journey that was usually one-way. In Soviet times it became a closed military base; site of the notorious shooting down of Korean...