Correction to: Magnolia Longing: The Plantation Tour as Palimpsest

Longing for the Longue Durée.

The authors of The History Manifesto respond to the Viewpoint commentary and extend the dialogue between the book's arguments and the recent historiography of science, technology, and medicine.

Advanced Correlation-Based Character Recognition Applied to the Archimedes Palimpsest

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a manuscript containing the partial text of seven treatises by Archimedes that were copied onto parchment and bound in the tenth-century AD. This work is aimed at providing tools that allow scholars of ancient Greek mathematics to retrieve as much information as possible from images of the remaining degraded text. A correlation pattern recognition (CPR) system has b...

the differential effects of debate and media analysis as relate to enhancing efl learners critical thinking ability and writing performances

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

“Longing to Know If Our Knowing Really Is Knowing” Reflections on Esther Meek’s Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People

An Enzymatic Palimpsest

According to the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, a palimpsest is “a parchment or other surface on which writing has been applied over earlier writing which has been erased.” Scholars are often able to decipher the earlier writing present on palimpsests by using chemical and imaging techniques. In a new study of a key enzyme that’s involved in the biosynthesis of the guanine nucleotides, inos...