The Airplane Motor Named Factor

I’ve just returned from an amazing three-week trip to the Arctic. Specifically, a transpolar trip: from Spitsbergen, Norway (the highest human settlement in the world) to the North Pole, then down to Nome, Alaska. As this was as much a scientific trip as leisure, I studied for months about polar exploration of the Arctic in

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First Documentation of VWD?

Women with bleeding disorders are finally getting the attention they deserve and need in our community. Doctors and patients are often clued in when women present with menorrhagia. But when was menorrhagia, and quite possibly von Willebrand disease, first documented in history? Our dedicated archivist, Richard Atwood of North Carolina, writes the following review of

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