“The Drover’s Wife”: Celebrating or Demystifying Bush Mythology?

Greek technology or mythology?

The study by Stefanadis et al. in this issue indicates that treatment with a variety of statins reduces the release of heat from atherosclerotic plaques in the human coronary artery. This observation suggests that statins exert a beneficial effect on the inflammatory process that exists in the vascular wall in a variety of acute coronary syndromes. The finding that this effect was most pronounc...

Celebrating the “Ostād”

This is a short tribute to Dr. Seyed Ali Fakhr Tabatabaei celebrating his excellent and fruitfull career in neurosurgical practice and mentorship. 

The Philosophy of Mythology

Technological Forecasting and Assessment: Science and/or Mythology?

A number of radically distinct models (inquiry systems) are described. The models derive from C. West Churchman’s recent characterization of the history of Western epistemology. It is argued that only a few of these models are appropriate for technological forecasting problems. Most technological forecasting methodologies rest on a dubious philosophical foundation. They unreflectively assume th...

The Plant in the Mythology

Plants played an important role in the mythology of Baltic tribes. The plants are mentioned in the sources of religion and mythology, mythological sagas, fairytales, proverbs, believes and magical rituals. In the written sources the worshiping of natural objects as well as phenomenons (sky-lights, earth, fire, water, thunder, plants, animals and even rocks) are often mentioned. The worshipings ...