INTRODUCTION "We of the craft (poets) are all crazy," remarked the 18th century British romanticist Lord Byron (George Gordon) about himself and his fellow poets. Implied in this statement is the notion that there exists a special kind of relationship between poets and being "crazy". A relationship between psychopathology and the artistic temperament is one of the oldest and most persistent of ...

Lamarck called it “the inheritance of acquired characteristics”—the notion that an individual’s actions can alter the biological inheritance passed on to his or her children. For example, giraffes, according to Lamarck’s theory, had developed longer and longer necks over the generations because of the giraffe's practice of reaching higher and higher for food. The giraffe is... obliged to browse...

В статье анализируются государственные реформы в Иране, предпринятые хаджа Мирза Агаси на посту главы иранского правительства, и роль первого визиря модернизации страны. Автор приходит к выводу, что большая часть начинаний правительства оказалась нереализованной не из-за бездарности предложенных мероприятий, а пассивности иранской элиты нежелания феодальных кругов Ирана менять устоявшиеся нормы...