A Conversation with Jamie Butler

Silver Bullet Talks with Jamie Butler

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South Africa, LGBT Issues in South Africa has undergone significant sociopolitical transformation in the last six decades, from the “legal” adoption of apartheid in 1948 to the first democratic election in 1994, and a new constitution two years later. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in South Africa is at the forefront of constitutional and sociopolitical reform. Num...

Philosophy, Art and Critique: A (short) conversation with the “other”

The article sketches a nexus between philosophy, art (poetry) and critique with a particular emphasis on the contribution of classical Muslim philosophers. At the same time, it demonstrates how luminaries such as Omar Khayyam and Ibn Sina, contributed to the renewal of philosophy as a freedom seeking exercise and as a means to pursue happiness through knowledge. In the second&nbs...

INTERSECTING RATIONAL BEATTY SEQUENCES Jamie

A rational Beatty sequence has the form {�pi/q + b� : i ∈ Z} where p > q > 0 and gcd(p, q) = 1. We call p/q the modulus of the sequence and b the offset. Morikawa gave a condition on the moduli of two Beatty sequences such that they would be disjoint for a suitable choice of offsets. Holzman and Fraenkel showed that the sequence formed by the intersection of two Beatty sequences with moduli p1/...

Sweating the Details: An Interview with Jamie Thomson

If you had to name the most controversial scientific achievement of the past decade, you’d be hard pressed to top the development of human embryonic stem [ES] cells. Human ES cells followed on the heels of another major technological advance—Dolly, the cloned ewe. Together, these remarkable breakthroughs have stimulated great public interest and have ushered in a new era in the exploration of h...