<i>Hamlet</i>, Pirates, and Purgatory

Quran and traditions on purgatory

Purgatory life of man and the stages following it have always occupied human mind. Some verses of Quran such as Al-muminun 100-101, Al-Imran 169-170, Ya-Sin 26-27, Al-Mu`min 11 and 46, Al-Munafiqun 10 and An-Nahl 32 clearly describe purgatory world and its properties. As is understood everlasting life of martyrs of holy wars and their rewards has been regarded as a proof for purgatory and its g...

Of pirates and pogos.

My favourite German political party is of course the APPD, the Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany. Admittedly, it has never scored the resounding electoral success of its cousin the Pirate Party, which won 9% of the vote in Berlin’s regional election last year. In that same poll, the APPD did claim a plurality of the vote (39.82%), based on the fact that it instructed its supporters either to vote...

Fighting Two Pirates

A pirate is a person who buys a legal copy of a copyrighted work and who reproduces it to sell illegal copies. Artists and authors are worried as they do not get the income which is legally theirs. It has been suggested to mark every copy sold with a unique fingerprint, so that any unauthorised copy may be traced back to the source and the pirate who bought it. The fingerprint must be embedded ...

UAV Pirates and SilenTrack Integration

Dengue virus pirates human platelets.

In this issue of Blood, Simon and colleagues provide the first proof that dengue virus (DENV) raids platelets and steals their translational machinery to replicate and produce infectious virus.