The Greatest Show on Earth? Considering Expo 2020, Dubai

The Evolution Ringmaster RichardDawkinsThe Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution2009Simon and SchusterNew York, NY, USA470 pp. $30.00

Caravan, and Hippodrome, " a year later adding the moniker " The Greatest Show on Earth. " Ever the showman, Barnum was renowned for promoting hoaxes, the most celebrated of which was the Feejee Mermaid, a mummified specimen boasting the head and torso of a monkey and the rear end of a fish. Such a ridiculous creature, what Richard Dawkins would refer to as a " fishkey, " half fish and half mon...

Personal reflections from a front-row seat at the greatest show on earth (life): part II (stroke research commentary).

P art I of this discussion of my 65 years since graduating from medical school covered my reasons for being in medicine at all, my explanation for the theatrical terms in the earlier para-scientific document, and finally the effect of World War II on my career. 1 Part II will attempt to touch on the privileged life I led in the field of stroke prevention research. In its entirety it is designed...

Digital Earth 2020: towards the vision for the next decade

Digital Earth 2020: towards the vision for the next decade Max Craglia a , Kees de Bie b , Davina Jackson c , Martino Pesaresi a , Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp d , Changlin Wang e , Alessandro Annoni a , Ling Bian f , Fred Campbell g , Manfred Ehlers h , John van Genderen b , Michael Goodchild i , Huadong Guo e , Anthony Lewis j , Richard Simpson k , Andrew Skidmore b & Peter Woodgate l a European Comm...

The Paradox of Paradise: Durkheim on Dubai

Expo-rational B-splines Expo-rational B-splines Expo-rational B-splines

A new type of B-spline the expo-rational B-spline is introduced. The heuristic motivation for its introduction comes from important similarities in several celebrated mathematical constructions originating in approximation theory, differential geometry and operator theory. The main result of the paper is the derivation of an Edgeworth and a steepest-descent/saddlepoint asymptotic expansion whic...