Consider the statement "The IPCC report concluded that there is a human influence on climate. This was supported by almost 4,000 authors and reviewers." The popular mythology and one that IPCC never tries to correct is that those 4,000 supported the findings but this is an exaggeration on a massive scale because all they really supported, by virtue of their work, was the creation of the report....

The imagery within the reproduced mythographic WingMakers' Chamber 17 Painting is interpreted. The picture illustrates, in articulate detail and vivid color, the WingMakers' philosophy and mythology of the metaphysical and/or biogenetic transformation of the individual. Standard mythology publications, and the latest findings in brain neurology are cited and discussed along with comparisons to ...

We analyzed the most common 5000 male and 5000 female Turkish names based on their etymological, morphological, and semantic attributes. The name statistics are based on all Turkish citizens who were alive in 2014 and they cover 90% of all population. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the most comprehensive data-driven analysis of Turkish personal name inventory. Female names have a g...

In this paper, an automatic method for Persian WordNet construction based on Prenceton WordNet 2.1 (PWN) is introduced. The proposed approach uses Persian and English corpora as well as a bilingual dictionary in order to make a mapping between PWN synsets and Persian words. Our method calculates a score for each candidate synset of a given Persian word and for each of its translation, it select...

Plants played an important role in the mythology of Baltic tribes. The plants are mentioned in the sources of religion and mythology, mythological sagas, fairytales, proverbs, believes and magical rituals. In the written sources the worshiping of natural objects as well as phenomenons (sky-lights, earth, fire, water, thunder, plants, animals and even rocks) are often mentioned. The worshipings ...