Today, we continue our worship series on the Lord's Prayer. We've gotten the greeting out of the way, "Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name." And last week we wrestled, in with the meaning of the petition, "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." Today we move to the first utterances about us, that God will take care of us, give us what we need, that do G...

Recently, plans have been announced to perform the first human head transplantation within the next few years [15]. Known as the head anastomosis venture (HEAVEN) protocol, details of this project have been outlined primarily from existing literature with supplementary basic science animal model data [1-6]. In this brief review, I analyze the literature of the two methodologies proposed by HEAV...

More than 700 years ago, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) wrote an epic poem about a man's journey through the afterworlds of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. In his Divine Comedy, he catalogued the vices and virtues of people who had passed into those spiritual domains, in part to provide a valuable insight to us, the living. Dante described hell as a very unhappy and inhospitable place that had differe...

T he Test Storage Ring (TSR) has been in operation at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics for some 20 years now. It is a racetrack of sorts, with a 55-meter circumference, on which charged particles race around, guided by magnets. Compared with its big brothers, such as the new super-accelerator LHC at the European particle physics lab in Geneva, the TSR is quite modest. But by no mean...

Eternity is in love with the productions of time — William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.