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Jack the Writer: A Verbal & Visual Analysis of the Ripper Correspondence

Sep 2013
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Dirk C. Gibson
The story of the unidentified serial killer in London's Whitechapel district - known as Jack The Ripper – has been the subject of interest to researchers for over 120 years. The name ascribed to the individual was from a letter sent to the Central News Agency in London on 27 September 1888. Initially thought to be a hoax the letter gained much publicity when the writer's promise of clipping a lady's ears off manifested after the discovery of the body of Catherin Read More
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Jožef Stefan: His Scientific Legacy on the 175th Anniversary of His Birth

Feb 2013
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John C. Crepeau
Most scientists and engineers are familiar with the name Josef Stefan primarily from the Stefan-Boltzmann law which relates the amount of energy transferred by radiation to the absolute temperature raised to the fourth power. Stefan determined this law from experimental data and it was later theoretically verified by his former student Ludwig Boltzmann. However it is interesting to know that this is the same Stefan who lent his name to t Read More
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