Gabriel Guimaraes grew up in Vitória, Brazil, in a yellow house surrounded by star-fruit trees and chicken coops. His father, who wrote software for a local bank, instilled in him an interest in ...

IN NATURE, vol. xiii., p. 82, is an article on “The Manchester Science Lectures,” in which it is stated that the popular lectures at the Midland Institute Birmingham “are chiefly frequented by the ...