Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) established a central theme of psychoanalysis: the past is alive in the present. Influences experienced in the past are not something that can be completely outgrown by the individual or society; they remain vital parts of existence. Rene Dubos (1901–1982), French-born American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and Pulitzer Prize-win...

When I was young and brash and generally ignorant, I found writing easy. I could dash off pieces entitled “Towards a Semantic Sociology” with no effort at all. This appeared in a student’s magazine but fortunately did not achieve wide circulation and does not figure in my list of publications. I was eighteen and a committed logical positivist. At an even earlier age, I won a prize for writing. ...

PHILOSOPHY Ever since the time of Pascal men have feared that the 'God' worshipped by believers and the 'God' contemplated by philosophers were somehow different. The former was personal, historically active, slow to anger and plentiful in mercy: the latter was dubiously able to be described in personal terms at all, and infinite in such a way as to baffle the imagination. The 'God' of the form...

Two chitosan samples (medium molecular weight (MMCHI) and low molecular weight (LMCHI)) were investigated as an enzyme immobilization matrix for the fabrication of a glucose biosensor. Chitosan membranes prepared from acetic acid were flexible, transparent, smooth and quick-drying. The FTIR spectra showed the existence of intermolecular interactions between chitosan and glucose oxidase (GOD). H...

Despite the cultural ubiquity of ideas and images related to God, relatively little is known about the effects of exposure to God representations on behavior. Specific depictions of God differ across religions, but common to most is that God is (a) an omnipotent, controlling force and (b) an omniscient, all-knowing being. Given these 2 characteristic features, how might exposure to the concept ...

For more than twenty years, I shared an office with Francis Crick, beginning in one large room in the Austin wing of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, where we also had five other people at their desks and, for a short while, some of our lab dishwashing. In 1959, we moved to a small room with two desks in a hut and this was followed by a succession of two other offices in the MR...

This article delves into the spectral and affective reserves of Zikr , Sufi exercise godly remembrance. It explores how performances religious longing broaden moral experience a post-migrant Berlin by offering contemporary believers critically thin zones hypersocial contact with Islamic holy figures. emerges as key interface felt material worlds: through acts remembrance, subliminal figures mig...

After a distinguished career of research and teaching, Melvin Calvin died in Berkeley, California on 8 January 1997, at the age of 85. Throughout his life, Calvin exhibited an intense curiosity that drove his scientific research. Although he may be best known for his contributions to our knowledge of photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation and reduction, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize ...