Statements that " we have come to do biology in a new way " or " there is a new paradigm in biological research " are now commonplace. Nobody seems to be satisfied by a single good experiment that gives a precise answer to a well formulated question, which was the old way we did biology. On the contrary there is now a belief that a mass attack on parallel fronts can provide a database of all th...

Several formalisms for concurrent computation have been proposed in recent years that incorporate means to express stochastic continuous-time dynamics and non-determinism. In this setting, some obscure phenomena are known to exist, related to the fact that schedulers may yield too pessimistic verification results, since current nondeterminism can surprisingly be resolved based on prophesying th...

In I Kings 22, a lying spirit deceives King Ahab’s prophets into prophesying in unison success in battle. This strange and tragic story enlarges the category of false prophets to include those who are sincere yet mistaken. This biblical report of one of many clashes between true and false prophets offers a conceptually powerful tool for thinking through the human capacity and obligation to disc...

mamdūh adwān (1941-2004) is a contemporary syrian poet who has vastly used traditions in his poems and has tried to express his ideas and stances toward arab world's current problems in a symbolic way and through traditional characters. mamdūh adwān is known as a poet committed to his country and people, and so, he considers expression of problems and provision of solutions as the highest ...