A Love That Lasts Beyond the Grave

Running head: A LOVE THAT LASTS 1 A Love That Lasts: Jane Austen’s Argument for a Marriage Based on Love in Pride and Prejudice

During the period of Regency England, a woman’s life was planned for her before she was born, and her place in society was defined by her marital status. Before she was married, she was her father’s daughter with a slim possibility of inheriting property. After she was married, legally she did not exist; she was subsumed into her husband with absolutely no legal, political, or financial rights....

Guppies reproduce from beyond the grave.

GUPPIES REPRODUCE FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE Humans can be forgiven for assuming that successful reproduction requires both partners to be alive. Amazingly, this isn’t the case for the Trinidadian guppy. Under laboratory conditions, female guppies are able to store sperm for up to a year, potentially allowing them to produce offspring even if the males are no longer around. However, several other st...

A trained perceptual bias that lasts for weeks

Classical (Pavlovian) conditioning procedures can be used to bias the appearance of physical stimuli. Under natural conditions this form of perceptual learning could cause perception to become more accurate by changing prior belief to be in accord with what is statistically likely. However, for learning to be of functional significance, it must last until similar stimuli are encountered again. ...

Beyond the Grave –The Use and Meaning of Human Body Parts: A Historical Introduction

Beyond the Grave: Facebook as a Site for the Expansion of Death and Mourning

Online identities survive the deaths of those they represent, leaving friends and families to struggle with the appropriate ways to incorporate these identities into the practices of grief and mourning, raising important questions. How are practices of online memorialization connected to conventional rituals of grief and mourning? What is the role of online digital identity postmortem? How do t...