Nationalisms: Classified and Explained

A Tale of Two Nationalisms

The recent joint American–Japanese declaration of common concern over ‘security’ in the Taiwan Strait, marking the resolve of Tokyo to return to the scene of former colonial operations in the South China Sea, has drawn international attention to the future of Taiwan once again. Many fear that a major military conflict between China and the United States—perhaps now joined by Japan—may break out...

Mp3 and Aac Explained

The proliferation of MPEG coded audio material on the Internet has shown an exponential growth since 1995, making ”.mp3” the most searched for term in early 1999 (according to http://www.searchterms.com). ”MP3” has been featured in numerous articles in newspapers and periodicals and on TV, mostly on the business pages because of the potential impact on the recording industry. While everybody is...

Classified Cancer Answers

Nonuniversality explained

The Nonuniversality in Computation Theorem (NCT) states that no computer capable of a finite and fixed number of basic operations per time unit can be universal. This result, obtained in 2005, disproves major prevailing dogmas in computer science, on the strength of several counterexamples that differ significantly from one another. Thus, the NCT shows that the Church-Turing Thesis (CTT) is fal...

Genius explained

The physician's art is the catalogue of an exhibition of over 100 images and other objects from the collections of four North Carolina medical schools. In a finely-judged Preface, structured around specific examples shown, Martin Kemp points out some of the historical issues involved in the study of medical imagery and artifacts, beginning with the problem of what "realism" means in the context...