Joseph Sugar Baly: The man and his entomological works.

Leonhard Euler: His Life, the Man, and His Works

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary (on April 15, 2007) of Euler’s birth, an attempt is made to bring Euler’s genius to the attention of a broad segment of the educated public. The three stations of his life—Basel, St. Petersburg, and Berlin—are sketched and the principal works identified in more or less chronological order. To convey a flavor of his work and its impact on modern science, ...

Articulating the Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick and his interpreters

these male and female attributes are social constructs, or biologically given one suspects she intends the latter-thus, while she may interestingly describe how meaning was carried, she cannot discuss how meaning was historically constructed and situated. This a-historical tendency may be discerned in her discussion of physiognomy where she describes Antoine-Joseph Pernety's Maladies de l'ame o...

Joseph Kosuth’s thoughts and Works: Research in the Wittgensteinian Origin of his Conceptual and anti-Aesthetics Trend

This article tries to elucidate Kosuth’s intention in the presentation on conceptual art. It focuses on an explanation about his opposition on aesthetics and formalism with regard to the Wittgensteinian origin of his measurements. For evaluation of what this artist said and what he performed in his artistic  works, we concentrate on the artist’s article entitled “art after philosophy”. We also ...

CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS: The Man and His Works

Man and his spaceships

The resiliency and adaptive ability of microbial life in real time on Earth relies heavily upon horizontal gene transfer. Based on that knowledge, how likely is earth based microbial life to colonize extraterrestrial targets such as Mars? To address this question, we consider manned and unmanned space exploration, the resident microbiota that is likely to inhabit those vehicles, the adaptive po...