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Aristophanes on Tragedy

Fifty years before Aristotle wrote his Poetics, Aristophanes had devoted two comedies, Thesmophoriazusae (411) and Frogs (405), to the subject of tragedy. In both plays the plot shows the education of the main character in the nature of tragedy. Euripides learns in Thesmophoriazusae that he must present noble and not base women in his dramas. His depiction of perverse women in the theatre had m...

The Ionian at Aristophanes

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Hepatocytes provide an integrated model to study drug metabolism and disposition. As a result of a loss of polarity or a significant decrease in the expression of enzymes and transporters, suspended and sandwich-cultured hepatocytes have limitations in determining hepatocellular drug concentrations. Underprediction of the extent of glucuronidation is also a concern for these hepatocyte models. ...

Beyond Knights and Knaves

In the classic knights and knaves problem, there are n people in a room each of whom is a knight or a knave. Knights always tell the truth while knaves always lie. Everyone in the room knows each other’s identity. You are allowed to ask questions of the form “Person i, is person j a knight?” and you are told that there are more knights than knaves. What is the fewest number of questions you can...

Unended knights' tournaments.

opinion opinion F or my generation, science has resem­ bled the tournaments of medieval knights: fierce, but fair. peter Mitchell started an uphill battle for his chemi­ osmotic theory in the 1960s and persisted until his adversaries avowed defeat in a joint publication with him in 1977 (Boyer et al, 1977). He received the Nobel prize for his work in 1978. My generation also grew up under the d...