Mixed diets can allow generalist insect herbivores to obtain nutritionally balanced resources or dilute toxins from specific foods, but also present the generalist with greater challenges in decision-making and require a greater ability to detoxify a wide range of plant defensive compounds. Young and small generalist larvae can have different nutritional requirements, ability to detoxify compou...

Nietzsche's analysis of the self-poisoning of ‘the will to power’ and his insistence upon overcoming its ideological outcome (the dogmatist's fake ‘Truth’) by recognizing the ‘un-truth’ of a ‘logic of contamination,’ demonstrates that he understands ‘truth’ as a paradox. What may one accordingly expect in response to the question ‘Supposing truth is a woman – what then?’, posed in the preface t...

The content of Boscovich’s Theoria philosophiae naturalis was well-known to his contemporaries, but both scientists and philosophers chiefly discussed it during the 19 century. The observations that Boscovich presented in this text, and that he himself defined as “philosophicas metitationes”, soon showed their being a good programme for the forthcoming atomic physics, and contributed to get rid...