Liberation story or apocalypse?

Apocalypse or redemption: responding to extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.

a Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, 88 College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada. b Centre for AIDS Programme of Research in Africa, Durban, South Africa. c School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Correspondence to Ross Upshur (e-mail: [email protected]). (Submitted: 10 June 2008 – Revised version received: 8 October 2008 –...

Apocalypse soon?

When the Lord smote the Philistines with emerods in their secret parts he left it to historians to debate the nature of this lethal affliction. Literally translated, emerods are haemorrhoids, but it is surely unlikely that so hardy a race would have succumbed to an epidemic of piles. Scholarly opinion seems to concur that the emerods were buboes in the groin, one of the agonising manifestations...

APOCALYPSE SOON † by

Based upon a simple vacuum Lagrangian, comprising cosmological and quadratic scalar field terms, a cosmological model is presented whose history is indistinguishable from that of an innocuous low-density cold dark matter (CDM) universe, but whose future is very much shorter. For sensible values of the deceleration parameter (0 < q 0 < 1), its age is greater than 85% of the Hubble time, thus res...

Reflection in work-based learning: self-regulation or self-liberation?

Ecomusicology between Apocalypse and Nostalgia