Unholy Stories

Supervenience, Emergence, and Epiphenomenalism: Physicalism’s Unholy Trinity

Telling stories about stories.

I want to tell you a story. This is a story about stories. As in any good story, we’re going to wander down a few storied paths. One of the paths leads back to 3 award-winning stories.* Remarkable stories by remarkable physicians who take seriously the power of stories—who have written powerful stories. Another path is about the importance of stories for human health and well-being from the per...

Micro Stories and Mega Stories

Technology, especially multimedia technology, is changing the way we tell stories. We are all familiar with letters, articles, and books, but new Internet technology has led to two novel forms of storytelling that we call micro stories and mega stories. Micro stories are the short bits of text and images that we use to tell our friends about our daily life, what we had for lunch, and the funny ...

FGF-23, vitamin D and calcification: the unholy triad.

Recent studies have changed the commonly held view that phosphate is mostly needed for normal skeletal growth and development. Extensive research in the last decade has identified numerous other essential dynamic functions for phosphate, ranging from signalling to energy metabolism. Abnormal phosphate homeostasis potentially affects functional activities of almost any organ system. Despite its ...

Heritage and Tourism in Ireland -an unholy alliance?

With the opening of the long-awaited Boyne Valley Centre in Summer 1997, the time has perhaps come to reassess the relationship between heritage and tourism in Ireland. In recent years, particularly since the start of the 1990s, there has been considerable debate and controversy about heritage issues, illustrating a high degree of public interest in the field. This paper outlines the main featu...