On March 11, 2011, an earthquake (magnitude 9.0) devastated Japan's east coast, and the associated tsunami resulted in social and mechanical destruction. Search for the missing people is still ongoing. Surgical implants are common in the general population. Medical implants usually have lot numbers, and their forensic use is common for victim identification. This investigation was conducted mai...

We construct a unique geocoded dataset on temples, dynasties and battles in medieval India and propose a test to identify the motive for observed temple desecrations in that period. We test two competing historical narratives of temple desecrations. The first focuses on the idea of iconoclasm, i.e. destruction of religious sites and imagery deemed heretical, as embedded in Islamic theology. The...

Lansing/de Vet's article tries to substantiate the conclusion Lansing has presented in all his publications since " Priests and Programmers " , namely that the irrigation management was exclusively performed by water temples and their commoner priests. These water temples accomplished a synchronization of irrigation agriculture that was a means to achieve the sharing of water (up-stream/down-st...