Jonathan Richardson's 'Hymn to God'

A Hymn to Neurosurgery and Neuroscience

June 2005 | Volume 3 | Issue 6 | e214 “Marketeers prove...every scientifi c term you use represents two thousand readers putting down the magazine and turning on a rerun of I Love Lucy,” says a world-weary editor in David Mitchell’s Russian doll of a novel Cloud Atlas. The marketeers of Ian McEwan (if he has any) clearly don’t agree. His latest novel, Saturday, is saturated with medical and sci...

A Christmas hymn.

Angela’s image came in a rush, escaping the repressed confines of Loretta’s subconscious. She appeared as an emaciated youth, track marks on her arms, eyes blank and cadaverous — as if she had come home one last time, still stinking and sleep-deprived after a stint on Godknows-which downtown street. Sitting in her rocking chair, Loretta stopped knitting and set aside the almost-finished sweater...

Epiphany in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the Odyssey

God Knows (But does God Believe?)

The standard view in epistemology is that propositional knowledge entails belief. Positive arguments are seldom given for this entailment thesis, however; instead, its truth is typically assumed. Against the entailment thesis, Myers-Schulz and Schwitzgebel (forthcoming) report that a non trivial percentage of people think that there can be propositional knowledge without belief. In this paper, ...

Jonathan Pines

Goals and Applications Our overall goal is to successfully predict the offensive play-calling decisions of college football coaches. We will attempt to make such predictions on the basis of data from past games and from previous plays in the current game. While there is extensive literature on machine learning in some other sports such as baseball, football has been relatively neglected; furthe...