This paper explores the question of how religious symbolism functions to provide a more meaningful or enriched experience life. It examines common and highly influential view, referred here as “source model”, for which this function requires addition transcendent meanings generated by rituals other specially adapted kinds symbolic activity. Using Robert Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution Clif...

The specific energy of Li metal batteries (LMBs) can be improved by using high-voltage cathode materials; however, achieving long-term stable cycling performance in the corresponding system is particularly challenging for liquid electrolyte. Herein, a novel pseudo-oversaturated electrolyte (POSE) prepared introducing 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl-2,2,3,3-tetrafluoropropyl ether (TTE) to adjust coord...

We often describe lives (or parts of lives) as meaningful or as not meaningful. It is also common to characterize them as more or less meaningful. Some lives, we tend to think, are more meaningful than others. But how then can one compare lives with respect to how much meaning they contain? Can one? This paper argues that (i) only a notion of rough equality can be used when comparing different ...