In „The Revolutionary“ präsentiert Stacy Schiff ein fesselndes Porträt von Samuel Adams, der, vielleicht mehr als jeder andere Gründer Amerikas, das Land auf den Weg in die Unabhängigkeit gebracht hat.
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While living in an internment camp in Vichy France, Alexander Grothendieck was tutored in mathematics by another prisoner, a girl named Maria. Maria taught Grothendieck, who was twelve, the definition of a circle: all the points that are equidistant from a given point. The definition impressed him with “its simplicity and clarity,” he wrote years later. The property of perfect rotundity had until then appeared to him
Bronislava Nijinska. (Roger Viollet/ Getty)
In 1905, the dancers of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg went on strike. Their demands: higher wages, a five-day workweek, training in how to apply theatrical makeup, the right to wear their own pointe shoes. They elected a small delegation, which included star pupils Anna Pavlova and Vaslav Nijinsky, to represent them in negotiations. This modest political action at the Mariinsky Theater proved that the spirit of the Revolution of 1905 had seeped into
Three paraplegics have been able to walk, swim and cycle for the first time in years after being fitted with a revolutionary spinal cord implant.
The device, which works by stimulating the region of the spinal cord that activates the trunk and leg muscles, was so effective that the patients were all able to stand and walk just one day after it was activated, researchers said.
It is controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) software which reactivates neurons via a pacemaker
