Imageless Worship in Antiquity+

Hero worship

This month, as the surest route to public embarassment, I decided to write about scientific heroes. Today’s world is full of talk of mentoring. Graduate students are told to find supervisors who will intellectually nourish them, emotionally support them, and teach them networking and grantspersonship. As I tap away, I can almost hear Uncle Syd muttering that the world is going to the dogs. In h...

Imageless computer navigation in total knee arthroplasty.

OBJECTIVES To study the difference in clinical and radiological outcomes between imageless computer-navigated and the conventional technique for performing total knee arthroplasty. DESIGN Prospective case-control study. SETTING University teaching hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Forty-seven patients with imageless computer-navigated total knee arthroplasty were matched with 47 patients with...

The grounds of worship

Although worship has a pivotal place in religious thought and practice, philosophers of religion have had remarkably little to say about it. In this paper we examine some of the many questions surrounding the notion of worship, focusing on the claim that human beings have obligations to worship God. We explore a number of attempts to ground our supposed duty to worship God, and argue that each ...

In Worship of an Echo

Synovial fluid in antiquity.

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