An Ethnographic and Humanistic View: Does the BC Human Rights Tribunal Hold Promise for Indigenous People?

Human Rights and the Tobacco Industry: An Unsuitable Alliance

Blocking TRPA1 in Respiratory Disorders: Does It Hold a Promise?

Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) ion channel is expressed abundantly on the C fibers that innervate almost entire respiratory tract starting from oral cavity and oropharynx, conducting airways in the trachea, bronchi, terminal bronchioles, respiratory bronchioles and upto alveolar ducts and alveoli. Functional presence of TRPA1 on non-neuronal cells got recognized recently. TRPA1 ...

Human ontogenesis: An indigenous African view on development and intelligence

V iews on development and intelligence mirror mainstream Euro-American ethnocentrism and are presented as being applicable to all of human diversity. In contrast, an African worldview visualizes phases of human cyclical ontogenesis of systematic socialization of responsible intelligence in participatory curricula that assign stage-appropriate developmental tasks. In these curricula, knowledge i...

Rapid Ebola tests hold promise

When the Ebola virus disease outbreak was confirmed in Guinea last year, Dr Pierre Formenty and his team working on emerging and dangerous pathogens at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva called on their network of collaborating laboratories for help. “When the outbreak started it was small, so we deployed two mobile field labs in Guinea, one in Guékédou run by the European Union Mobi...

Postmodern View of Humanistic Mathematics

This article is an investigation of humanism in philosophy of mathematics from the point of view of postmodernism. We claim that humanistic mathematics is compatible with postmodernism which is taking over everything we have, do, or wish. Omar Khayyam, an Iranian mathematician and poet: A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilde...