Do looks constitute our perceptual evidence?

Perceptual Belief and Nonexperiential Looks

How things look (or sound, taste, smell, etc.) plays two important roles in the epistemology of perception. 1 First, our perceptual beliefs are episte-mically justified, at least in part, in virtue of how things look. Second, whether a given belief is a perceptual belief, as opposed to, say, an infer-ential belief, is also at least partly a matter of how things look. Together, these yield an ep...

Development: Facial Makeup Enhancing Our Looks

A recent study in mice deciphers the complex genetic regulatory network underlying the morphogenesis of the face. The enhancer landscape underlying craniofacial development provides multiple entry points to understand what makes up the face, in natural variation or pathological conditions.

Ramadan fasting: Do we need more evidence?

Over a billion of Muslims fast worldwide during Ramadan each year. Through this religious custom, fasting contributes to their health as well as their spiritual growth. However, available evidence regarding the health-benefits of Ramadan fasting is scarce and highly contentious. Although Islam exempts patients from fasting, many fast conceivably, and their clinical condition is prone to deterio...

Income inequality and poverty : Do the nordic countries still constitute

Do non-relativistic neutrinos constitute the dark matter?

The dark matter of the Abell 1689 Galaxy Cluster is modeled by thermal, nonrelativistic gravitating fermions and its galaxies and X-ray gas by isothermal distributions. A fit yields a mass of h 1/2 70 (12/ḡ) 1/4 1.445(30) eV. A dark-matter fraction Ων = h −3/2 70 0.1893(39) occurs for ḡ= 12 degrees of freedom, i.e., for 3 families of leftplus right-handed neutrinos with masses ≈ 2G F me. Given ...