Realisms within Conundrum

THE CONUNDRUM OF EUTHANASIA

The Flow of the Water: Contemporary American Realisms

"Realism" is one of the enduring theoretical problems of the cinema. This study aims to broaden the parameters of the term by focusing on an often overlooked strain of thought that flows throughout the work of a number of prominent and seemingly incongruous thinkers such as Bazin, Kracauer, Benjamin, Barthes, Buñuel, and others. Realism, I contend, is undergirded by something far more elusive a...

Crop conundrum.

The lead review “Risk assessment of genetically modified crops for nutrition and health” by Magaña-Gómez and Calderon de la Barca,1 ends with a common plea: “more research is needed”. It is valid to put both this plea and the justification for other similar research into perspective. How selective are the reviews that lead to the conclusion that more of such research is needed?What comparators ...

Cancer Conundrum

The main event is when physiologic EMT is seen in gastrulation; formation and migration of neural crest cells.[3] The progression of EMT is further classified into primary (1°), secondary (2°) and tertiary (3°) EMT,[2] depending on the number or sequential sweeps of EMT and mesenchymal‐epithelial transition (MET).[2] MET signifies the conversion of the mesenchymal phenotype back into the epithe...

Conservation conundrum.