The Proust Machine: What a Public Science Event Tells Us About Autobiographical Memory and the Five Senses

What Science Tells Us about the Age of the Creation

Kurt P. Wise is Professor of Science and Theology and Director of the Center for Theology and Science at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He earned a Ph.D. in paleontology from Harvard University and previously served as Assistant Professor of Science and Director of the Center for Origins Research at Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee. Dr. Wise is the author of Faith, Form, and Time:...

What Humour Tells Us About Discourse Theories

Many verbal jokes, like garden path sentences, pose difficulties to models of discourse since the initially primed interpretation needs to be discarded and a new one created based on subsequent statements. The effect of the joke depends on the fact that the second (correct) interpretation was not visible earlier. Existing models of discourse semantics in principle generate all interpretations o...

What the evidence tells us about safety and care.

What Labor Market Theory Tells Us about the "New Economy"

The average unemployment rate for 1997 was 4.9 percent, well below most estimates of the nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU).1 One would therefore have expected to see an increase in inflation in 1997; yet, as measured by the CPI, inflation fell from 3.3 percent to 1.7 percent (December to December). This phenomenon of low unemployment accompanied by falling inflation has pro...

What olivine, the neglected mineral, tells us about kimberlite petrogenesis

We report here the results of a petrographic and geochemical study of remarkably well-preserved kimberlites from the Kangamiut region in Greenland. The samples contain between 5 and 45% of olivine in the form of rounded “nodules”, each 1 to 5 mm in diameter. Most originally were single crystals but many consist of polycrystalline, monomineralic aggregates. Olivine compositions vary widely from ...