Cease Your Funning: Old English Air

Improving your English Pronunciation

Breathe – wearing your air

Breathe – the air we wear proposes wearable and mobile technologies for reading and rendering in real time the air we breathe. The project proposes the ‘actioning’ for better air quality through individuals’ capacity to record air pollution. The project initiates a walk-able protest by taking air quality directly to the individual and through critical mass counter the massive problems facing ou...

How old is your heart?

The traditional concept of the heart as a terminally differentiated postmitotic organ has been largely based on an influential study published in 1925 that reported the paucity or near-absence of cell division and mitosis in the human heart, which was in striking contrast with the regenerative capacity of eg, liver tissue.1 Additional arguments thought to support this concept are the absence of...

How old is your fold?

MOTIVATION At present there exists no age estimate for the different protein structures found in nature. It has become clear from occurrence studies that different folds arose at different points in evolutionary time. An estimation of the age of different folds would be a starting point for many investigations into protein structure evolution: how we arrived at the set of folds we see today. It...

The development of Old English

This volume is the second in Ringe’s Linguistic history of English, picking up where the previous book, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (Ringe 2006), left off. It covers the time period from the break-up of Proto-Germanic until c. 900 ce, thus ending roughly in the middle of the Old English (OE) period as traditionally conceived. The scope of this monumental project will be apparent ...