Arts in Dark Times

Light in dark times.

Recent world events have once again reinforced my belief that we are indeed very fortunate. In March, we watched helplessly as friends, family, and colleagues in Japan were devastated by earthquakes and tsunamis, and continue to watch the saga of a nuclear disaster unfold. Not so long ago, we witnessed the devastation in Haiti, in Australia, and again in New Zealand, as thousands of lives were ...

Hemocyanins and the immune response: defense against the dark arts.

The innate immune response is a conserved trait shared by invertebrates and vertebrates. In crustaceans, circulating hemocytes play significant roles in the immune response, including the release of prophenoloxidases. Activated phenoloxidase (tyrosinase) participates in encapsulation and melanization of foreign organisms as well as sclerotization of the new exoskeleton after wound-repair or mol...

Untimeliness and Punctuality: Critical Theory in Dark Times

Beware the Dark Arts! Delay Analysis and the Problems with Reliance on Technology

Singlet scalar dark matter in noncommutative space

In this paper, we examine the singlet scalar dark matter annihilation to becoming the Standard Model particles in the non-commutative space. In the recent decades, many candidates of dark matter have been offered,  but our information about  the nature of dark matter is still limited. There are such particle candidates as  scalar matetr, fermion, boson, gauge boson, etc.; however, they have nei...