Paleontology: Scanning for Sea Monsters

Scanning infrared radiometer for measuring the air-sea temperature difference.

We describe a vertically scanning infrared radiometer for measuring the air-sea temperature difference without disturbing the water skin layer. The radiometer operates with a single wavelength channel that is 1.1 mum wide, centered on 14.2 mum, on the short-wavelength edge of a CO(2) atmospheric absorption band. The resulting high atmospheric absorption enables calibration of the horizontal-vie...

Moral Monsters and Saints

This paper argues for the moral significance of the notion of an evil person or character. First, I argue that accounts of evil character ought to support a robust bad/evil distinction; yet existing theories cannot plausibly do so. Consequentialist and related theories also fail to account for some crucial properties of evil persons. Second, I sketch an intuitively plausible “affective-motivati...

Taming Monsters like Daidalos

Modern telecommunication systems are showing an increasing degree of complexity. This is especially true for projects actively engaged in the process of convergence between Internet-type of data communications, telecommunications and broadcast – often including several forms of mobility. While it is intuitively obvious that such complex systems and projects will probably benefit from formal mod...

Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution

Paleontology: C. Stock