13 março 2018

A Funny Legal Technicality

In the United States, a witness in court cannot speak of things they heard others say – like “I heard Johnny say he robbed that store."  It is termed "hearsay” and is not allowed as evidence. Hearsay includes statements other people wrote, and the witness read – like “I read his diary, and in his diary, Johnny wrote about robbing that store.”

There are a number of exceptions to the hearsay rule. One of the more colorful is dying declarations. “A dying declaration is defined as a statement made by a declarant, who is now unavailable, who made the statement under a belief of certain or impending death, and the statement concerns the causes or circumstances of impending death” according to Cornell Law School. Note that if the dying declaration is about anything other than why the person is dying, it doesn’t count as a dying declaration. And it isn’t admissible in an American court.

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What Was It Like To Be And Ancient Mesopotamian Doctor?

A group of 2,700-year-old texts written on clay tablets by Kisir-Ashur, a medical student who lived in the Neo-Assyrian Empire at the end of the 600s BCE, reveal a lot about ancient Mesopotamian medical training, and medical theory. Kisir-Ashur described how in the earlier stages of his education, he his skills on animals, then progressed to treating babies, and then finally adults. Disease was thought to have been caused by sinful or objectionable behavior by the sick person, or the result of witchcraft performed against the sick person. After the power that caused the disease was identified, it was treated with medical agents, incantations, prayers, and rituals, as well as plant-based medical treatments.

Interestingly, economic and social problems were also treated by Neo-Assyrian doctors. They were thought to be caused by the same things as physical illness: bad behavior or a curse.

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Running a Real-Time Simulation of Go-No-Go for Apollo 17


Not everyone gets to become a part of history, but mathematician Billie Robertson is one of the lucky ones. In this image taken on Nov. 27, 1972, she was running a real-time simulation of Translunar Injection (TLI) Go-No-Go for the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission.

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