Divine Springtime

Mitosis: Springtime for Chromatin

When a eukaryotic cell divides, tension builds at centromeres as spindle forces pull chromosomes toward opposite poles during metaphase. New data show that centromeric chromatin stretches in response to these forces, revealing a mechanical role for chromatin packaging in mitosis.

Europe's springtime moves

Most of the alarming data about temperature rises as a result of likely climate change have come from high latitudes and altitudes. There appears growing evidence that glaciers and ice sheets are melting rapidly. The latest evidence comes from comparisons of pictures in the Andes reported last month which show that the Upsala glacier in Argentina has melted substantially, creating a lake where ...

Divine Eros and Divine Providence in Proclus’ Educational System

Legionella, springtime and potting soils.

Legionnaires’ disease has been named after the outbreak in Philadelphia 1976 when a mysterious pneumonia affected a large number of members of the American Legion, a United States military veterans association, which held a gathering at a hotel [1]. Legionella, the bacterium causing the disease was identified several months after this outbreak for the first time. Today we know that there are ab...

Divine Cognitive Power

Standard analyses of omniscience are advanced in terms of a being's knowing the truth value of propositions. For example, Kenny writes that 'The doctrine of omni-science is easy to formulate precisely: it is the doctrine that for all p, then God knows that p.1 Richard Swinburne proposes that 'To say of a person P that he is omniscient at time t is to say that at t P knows of every true proposit...