Barry Wyndham Richards

Henry Wyndham Goodden

Wyndham Lewis’s Theory of Mass Culture

In The Art of Being Ruled Wyndham Lewis argues that modern masses are governed through media manipulation, and specifi cally through “the hypnotism of cinema, wireless, and press” (148). This argument motivates Lewis’s various criticisms of press freedom and mass cultural production, and these criticisms, in turn, are often cited as evidence of an authoritarian bias in his cultural and politica...

Barry Duncan

1. What exactly is an evidenced-based practice? It usually means an approach that has established itself better than placebo or treatment as usual in two clinical trials. Such demonstrations are nothing to write home about; intervention of nearly any kind has demonstrated its superiority over placebo for 50 years! This research tells us nothing that we already do not know: Treatment works. So, ...

Chemistry: Richards and Boyer

remains to be done in order that perfect certainty may be attained, nevertheless the outcome must be regarded as promising in pointing toward an adequate and convenient method of separating gallium from other metals. Three fractional samples of the chloride discussed in the previous section were analyzed, using the usual methods employed in Harvard University in order to make a preliminary dete...

Ontology Barry Smith

Ontology as a branch of philosophy is the science of what is, of the kinds and structures of objects, properties, events, processes and relations in every area of reality. 'Ontology' is often used by philosophers as a synonym of 'metaphysics' (a label meaning literally: 'what comes after the Physics'), a term used by early students of Aristotle to refer to what Aristotle himself called 'first p...