Birthing modernity: The BBC’s Count Dracula (1977)

Birthing Beyond the Confinements of Tradition and Modernity?

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REGENERATIVE MEDICINE – INITIATIVE À LA CARTE A remedy to the blood thirsty count Dracula?

Transylvania, splendidly played by the late Béla Lugosi, was maintaining himself with repeated blood meals. Due to the limited lifetime of red blood cells he needed this form of substitution therapy over and over again. It was not known then that transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells would have provided a permanent cure. To protect European Union citizens from such bad, not to say deadly,...

Birthing Opers

1.1. Let G be a simply connected semisimple group with Borel subgroup B, N = [B,B] and let H = B/N . Let g, b, n and h be the respective Lie algebras of these groups. Let G be the Langlands dual group with dual Borel B, etc. Let X be a smooth curve or the formal disc D or the formal punctured disc D×. 1.2. Recall that a g-oper over X is a G-bundle FLG = F with a reduction FLB to B and a connect...

The modernity mess

When we had the good fortune to study the Klasies River Mouth Cave remains at the South African Museum in 1989, the isolated partial zygomatic KRM 16651 presented us with a morphometric challenge. The face of the bone appeared quite large, but only a small portion of the inferior border was preserved, and that mostly under the temporal process. No measuring points allowed standard comparisons t...

The Paradox of Modernity