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Wise men of intellects know that the materialistic human body is genetically controlled, environmentally modulated and controlled by unknown deluding power (Maya) or ULTIMATE. In the current period of time, Lust, Anger, Greed, Pride, Jealous, duplicity, perversity, hypocrisy, malice, heresy, pride, infatuation, concupiscence and arrogance pervade the whole universe. All are unreal, even though ...

ANNALS COMMENTARY ANNALS COMMENTARY intellectual commerce-legal paradigms for global initiatives Human intellect is the genesis of the proud civilizations, where it carried out its collective march towards a 'better tomorrow'. The creative manifestations of the great intellects brought all of us from dark and dingy grottos to the luminous urbanity of the present day. For every small step forwar...

As plant biologists enter a new era in which comparative genomics promises to address fundamental questions in botany, such as unraveling metabolic and regulatory networks, the inestimable value and usefulness of robust systematic studies quickly become clear. In simplest terms, systematic studies can indicate which genomes in the plant kingdom to search, sample, and study for the answers to qu...

Understanding the mechanisms that underlie pattern formation is one of the major challenges of developmental biology. The complexity and beauty of the patterns on butterfly wings, fish scales, or bird feathers are not only remarkable products of developmental processes but puzzles that tease our intellects. If we are to understand these beautiful products of cellular activity, we need to first ...

The diversion of science to destructive purposes is as old as science itself. The observation that a club, knife, spear or arrow useful to bring down an animal could be used to similar effect against "the enemy" in the next village was readily perverted to the design of weapons strictly for anti-personnel purposes. Even while enhancing the human condition, science has degraded and brutalized it...

This year's recipient of the Friedenwald award is Dr. Venkat Reddy, Director and Professor of the Institute of Biological Sciences, Oakland University in Michigan. The jubilation of this occasion is tempered by sadness at the absence of one who should have been a principal in this ceremony—Dr. V. Everett Kinsey, who met his untimely death last summer. Dr. Kinsey was elated that Dr. Reddy, his c...

Lucky you, if you happen to live in one of the democratic western countries, because then you live in a society that gives you maximal freedom and opportunities to pursue your goals. But what if you are one of the disgruntled people who think that our elected leaders have got a certain issue all wrong and nobody except you is smart enough to see that they are heading the wrong way? Then you hav...

A debated topic in Avicennan psychology is whether for Avicenna abstraction is a metaphor for emanation or to be taken literally. This issue stemsion is a metaphor for emanation or to be taken literally. This issue stems from the deeper philosophical question of whether humans acquire intelligibles externally from an emanation by the Active Intellect, which is a separate substance, or internall...

In The Bell Curve, Herrnstein and Murray claim that a high value for heritability of intelligence limits or constrains the extent to which intelligence can be increased by changing the environment. This article argues that the concept of heritability is based on unsupportable assumptions and that its numerical value places no constraint on the consequences of an improved environment. On the con...