Coming to terms with the noisy retina

Coming to “Terms” with Creativity

Intuitively, it might not be easy to understand that the creative process of an artist is also an explorative one. But, bringing something into existence requires being able to imagine experiencing it first. In this instance, the imagination serves as an unmapped territory for the artist to explore. The objects residing in this territory are often familiar. Yet, the artists exploration of their...

Coming to Terms with Metaphor

The theme of the church as the 'body of Christ' has more than any other in Paul stimulated critical reflection on the question of his use offigurative language. Yet, while considerable exegetical and literary-historical attention has been directed towards the problem of whether the identification of the church with the body of Christ is to be understood as simply metaphorical or in some more my...

Coming to terms with fear.

The brain mechanisms of fear have been studied extensively using Pavlovian fear conditioning, a procedure that allows exploration of how the brain learns about and later detects and responds to threats. However, mechanisms that detect and respond to threats are not the same as those that give rise to conscious fear. This is an important distinction because symptoms based on conscious and noncon...

Coming to Terms with the Capitalist Peace

Coming to Terms with Strongly Coupled Strings

The holomorphy of the superpotential along with symmetries gives very strong constraints on any stringy non-perturbative effects. This observation suggests an approach to string phenomenology. The enormous appeal of string theory is based entirely on the features which we understand in its weak coupling limit. Yet it has been clear for some time that if string theory describes nature it must be...