It’s no smooth-purring comedy machine. Sometimes Newman’s arcane historical act-outs frustrate, by interrupting the flow of his argument. Occasionally, the ideas they depict are funnier in concept than execution. But there are laughs and killer punchlines, such as the priceless …
Press Release: ISSCR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation
Human dignity and the creation of human–nonhuman chimeras. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 18, no. 4 (2015): 487-499. [Palacios-González, César] Further Research: Dr César Palacios-González, Senior Research Fellow in Practical Ethics, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford “The new ISSCR …
Special St Cross Seminar summary of Maureen Kelley’s: Fighting Diseases of Poverty Through Research: Deadly dilemmas, moral distress and misplaced responsibilities
“The community expects us to meet/respond to their needs and we cannot do that. […] They need water, they need housing, roads, education […], and they expect this from us. This makes things difficult […] we always have to explain …
Imposter Syndrome And Environmental Sampling
How can we correct for this? One way is to make our evidence more representative of what’s going on in the world – de-bias our sample. This probably means avoiding social media sites altogether, or at least editing those we …
Luiz Pessoa will livestream “Mental Categories and the Vertebrate Brain” on May 28
Abstract. Mental terms—such as perception, cognition, action, emotion, as well as attention, memory, decision making—are epistemically sterile. We support our thesis based on extensive comparative neuroanatomy knowledge of the organization of the vertebrate brain. Evolutionary pressures have molded the central …
Appearance of Lord Narasimha
Lessons for Devotees and Non-Devotees When Lord Brahma reached the Valley of Mandarachala Mountain, Hiranyakahipu was not to be seen. Without fat, flesh and blood he was buried in an anthill; his life air circulating in his bones. Lord Brahma expressed amazement …
Is Life-Sustaining Treatment Being Lawfully Withdrawn From Patients In Prolonged Disorders Of Consciousness? Nobody Seems To Know
(b) when doing the act, D reasonably believes— If there is no way of knowing on a systemic level whether the Mental Capacity Act is being flouted by the Supreme Court’s implicit guidance being ignored, it seems arguable that the …
Closing Conference of Duke’s Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy on June 4 and 5
The closing conference is the finale of a 3-week program designed to advance interdisciplinary work at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. You can learn more about the program by visiting https://ssnap.net. We are excited to share information about the …
Agni-Pariksha of Mother Sita
A Gaudiya Vaishnava Perspective Hence we see how the Acharya’s purports to Shastra help us gain a deeper understanding of the scriptures. It is evident that mother Sita was not an ordinary human being. She was the pleasure potency of Lord …
Mohini Ekadashi
‘O Ramachandra! Fasting on Mohini Ekadashi removes the darkest illusory attachments to material existence. There is thus no better fast day in all the three worlds than this.’” ‘Hungry and gripped with anxiety, he wondered what he would do, where …