Soviet Modernisation, Atheism and Insular Lithuanian Society

The New Atheism

In what may be his best book to date, Victor Stenger (Professor Emeritus of Physics) provides a much needed summary, elaboration, and defense of the main theses of the so-called “New Atheists” (NAs), known for their widely-publicized, unrelenting, and passionate critiques of theism and religion in general. Among these NAs, Stenger includes authors of recent bestsellers in the United States: Sam...

The Presumption Of Atheism

We have already stated summarily what the punishment should be for temple-robbing, whether by open force or secretly. But the punishments for the various sorts of insolence in speech or action with regard to the gods, which a man can show in word or deed, have to be proclaimed after we have provided an exordium. Let this be it: "No one believing, as the laws prescribe, in the existence of the g...

The Cambridge Companion to ATHEISM

Lithuanian-Latvian-Lithuanian Parallel Corpus

The goal of the paper is to present different problems related to the building of Parallel Corpus for two small languages, namely, Latvian and Lithuanian. The Lithuanian-Latvian-Lithuania Parallel Corpus (LILA) will contain 8 million running words; will be bidirectional, aligned on the sentence level. The problems include identifying, acquiring, preparing, and aligning parallel texts.

Insular Cortex and Insular Epilepsy

Insular cortex epilepsy is an under-recognized, localization-related syndrome. The presence of this condition could account for the surgery treatment failure seen in a portion of patients with temporal epilepsy, as well as a portion of those with frontal and parietal lobe epilepsy. Most cases of intractable temporal epilepsy are associated with insular cortex involvement. In this review, we wil...