“MOTIONS” OF GODFATHER

Sir John Gurdon: Godfather of cloning

S ir John Gurdon's famous frog cloning experiments of the 1960s and '70s answered a question that had been hanging over cell biologists since before the turn of the century: are the cells of an adult organism genetically identical to the fertilized egg from which they are derived? Briggs and King in the early '50s suggested that cells' genetic material is irreversibly altered as they begin to d...

Aristotle, godfather of evidence-based medicine

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Wavelet-based Analysis for Pulse Period of Earthquake Ground-motions

Pulse period of earthquake records has been known as a key parameter in seismology and earthquake engineering. This paper presents a detailed characterization of this parameter for a special class of earthquake records called pulse-like ground motions. This type of motions often resulting from directivity effects is characterized by a strong pulse in the velocity time history of motion, in norm...

Know your Schmitt: a godfather of truth and the spectre of Nazism

323 * This article is indebted to the discussions on Schmitt’s concept of the political in the Critical Theory Reading Group at the London Centre of International Relations at the University of Kent. I would also like to thank Mick Cox for helpful comments on an earlier version. 1 Hans-Karl Pichler, ‘The Godfathers of “Truth”: Max Weber and Carl Schmitt in Morgenthau’s Theory of Power Politics’...