The coming census

Symbolic Significance of Yeats's "The Second Coming"

The Second Coming

The definitions and characteristics of the out-of-body experience were examined. It was concluded that none of the various definitions are specific enough wRh regard to the idea of an actual physical split between the consciousness and the body. The experimental evidence was outlined, the weaknesses highlighted and alternative explanations were given. The out-of-body experience associated with ...

Conducting the economic census

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The Neutron Star Census

The paucity of old isolated accreting neutron stars in ROSAT observations is used to derive a lower limit on the mean velocity of neutron stars at birth. The secular evolution of the population is simulated following the paths of a statistical sample of stars for different values of the initial kick velocity, drawn from an isotropic Gaussian distribution with mean velocity 0 ≤ V ≤ 550 km s −1. ...

The microbes are coming.

1332 CMAJ, August 9, 2011, 183(11) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors So, your three months of dieting have gone really well, but it still feels like the weight wants to come back on. Maybe your gut feeling is spot on. What if you’re harbouring trillions of little microbes that simply won’t accept this dieting stuff and are “telling” your brain to get back to your plump old se...