Gérard de Nerval – the man who walked lobsters

l'étude comparative du rêve aurélia de gérard de nerval et la chouette aveugle de hedayat

l’homme a toujours souffert du caractère impeccable du réel qui, imposant des répressions mentales et sociales, interdit la réalisation des souhaits et des désirs. pourtant il semble que rien ne puisse faire d’obstacles à l’esprit humain lorsqu’il prend la voie du rêve, ce phénomène compliqué et surnaturel. mais quelle est la fonction du rêve quand il entre dans le domaine de la littérature? pe...

Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief – but Who Is Who in the Capitalist Economy

The thesis of this paper is that a free-market capitalist economy is biased against supplying basic needs of poor consumers and also biased against creating inventing and using green technology. We begin by identifying the patterns of perverse logic in the system of market supply and in the process of technological advance under capitalism. The first pivotal problem is that economic decision ma...

The Man Who Invented Music

We all know Pythagoras did quite a lot for high school mathematics; most of us are aware that his "Theorem" is also the basis for trigonometry, and trigonometry is the theoretical background to that most fundamental of sound waves, the sine wave. But that is not even scratching the surface of the work of the Pythagorean School. The man himself, and his own ideas, are only known to us through th...

La curieuse destinée des planches anatomiques de Gérard de Lairesse, peintre en Hollande. Lairesse, Bidloo, Cowper

Credit for the discovery of penicillin and its antibacterial effects has been ascribed in varying degrees in the past either to Fleming or to Florey and Chain, all recipients of a Nobel Prize in 1945. Sheehan certainly makes no secret of his support of Fleming, and his facts and arguments are presented to this end. There will be many readers who disagree. The exploitation of the drug in the ear...

Who Is This Man?