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...

The paper samples the large body of neuroscientific evidence suggesting that each mental function takes place within specific neural structures. For instance, vision appears to occur in the visual cortex, motor control in the motor cortex, spatial memory in the hippocampus, and cognitive control in the prefrontal cortex. Evidence comes from neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, brain s...

All previous solutions to the problem of evil have attempted resolve issue by showing that God permits them in order for a greater good. However, some contest there are instances which is no good, while other cases good and been distributed unjustly. I intend, this paper, show if compensates harms afterlife, any sort enough evil; even not than nor appropriately. To attain end, divided theory co...

This article addresses whether dead public intellectuals differ from living public intellectuals in terms of their social network properties in the mass and internet media. Explicated at the theoretical level is the macro-level asynchrony of the web, moving beyond micro-level conceptualizations. Networks for 662 actors which Posner defined as public intellectuals are analyzed based on data from...

The re-appearance of old friends is always a cause for rejoicing, and when Cbadwick and Mann's The medical works of Hippocrates (less Coan Prognosis) comes revised with Withington's version of Fractures, three excellent new translations by I. M. Lonie, and a masterly introduction by G. E. R. Lloyd, our pleasure is great indeed. The older versions need no praise, and Lonie's fluent and judicious...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the impact of unsustainable community platforms from community and information sharing perspectives using Google Lively as an example. The aim is to analyse what happens when a community platform is not sustainable and explore the reasons why Lively failed or succeeded as an arena of participation and information sharing. Design/methodology/appro...

T he german naturalist ernst haeckel began many of his works of popular science with a rhetorical trope that was unusual amid the positivism of the late nineteenth century.1 In the two central books of his career, his Natural History of Creation and his Evolution of Man, volumes bookended by the ultratechnical General Morphology and the ultrapopular Riddle of the Universe, Haeckel opened his ac...