Why Intermediality — if at all ? []

If at All Humanly Possible

Hollywood stunt people, who didn't wear their seat-belts, or who botchErl their suicide attempts). This doesn't bother Wreen. In response to my having pointed out that "at most Wreen has made a case for the ascription of basic rights to those human non-persons whose condition is no fault of their own" (p. 126). (The first two words are ernmasizErl because they were inadvertently omitted from Wr...

Why Clone At All?

Why would anyone clone a sheep or a cow, let alone a human being? None save the genetic determinists who believe an organism is nothing more than the sum total of its genetic makeup and that it is their right to exploit cloned human embryos for spare body parts. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho explains why ‘clone’ is a misnomer. The original Dolly experiment was misguided, and subsequent attempts at cloning man...

Is hospital mortality higher at weekends? If so, why?

In the past few years, politicians, the media, clinicians, and managers have become increasingly interested in the risks involved in being admitted to hospital at weekends. Although higher neonatal mortality has been reported for babies born at weekends than for those born during the week in the USA, the UK, and Australia since the 1970s, the fi rst investigation of a weekend eff ect in other a...

How Much Mathematics Is Hardwired, If Any at All

The investigation of mathematical cognition in developmental psychology has been primarily confined to the study of numerical cognition— basic facts involving quantity, such as the acquisition of number words and some competences for numerical estimation and calculation. But mathematics is much more than simple counting numbers and basic arithmetic. Mathematics, seen by many as the queen of sci...

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