This critique of Gould was originally designed as the final segment of the introduction to my edition of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (2003). The critique was written shortly before the publication of Gould’s last big book, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (2002). In that book, he recapitulates the ideas and stratagems he had developed over the past three decades: anti-adaptationism, “...

Neoliberalism has resulted in a large-scale economization and capitalization of society that has also permeated the academic system. The paper at hand provides the result of a case study that analyzed how students, who are today frequently confronted by the combination of studying and precarious labour and insecure job perspectives, assess the importance of critical thinking. As a theoretical f...

We thank the editors of Regeneration for the opportunity to respond to the letter by Sluys and Stocchino (2017) (S&S), who take issue with our report of observations (Morokuma, Durant, & Williams, 2017) on planaria that spent several weeks aboard the International Space Station (ISS), in comparison with controls that stayed (similarly sealed) on Earth. First, we give a brief review of what we d...

The explanation for Vedanta offered by Bhakti Niskama Santa (BNS)1 is valid from both scientific and philosophical grounds. It seems that the published critique of Gustavo Caetano-Anollés (GCA)2 to Shanta's paper is purely emotional and does not have any valid scientific or philosophical justification. In his rebuttal to Caetano-Anollés's critique, Shanta3 highlighted how the concept of 'Organi...

The paper first addresses the main issues in current content-based image retrieval to conclude that the largest factors of innovations are found in the large size of the datasets, the ability to segment an image softly, the interactive specification of the user’s wish, the sharpness and invariant capabilities of features, and the machine learning of concepts. Among these everything gets better ...

BACKGROUND Studies of clinical outcomes for generalist vs specialist care for diagnoses within a specialist's narrow domain have tended to favor specialty care. METHODS A MEDLINE search from January 1, 1980, through April 1, 2005, and a hand search of retrieved bibliographies of English-language studies that compared generalist vs specialist care for individual patients with a single discrete...

Since the late nineteenth century explanations of sexual trauma have invoked unconscious mental mechanisms of forgetting. Memories have been seen as submerged only to be therapeutically recovered. Explanations and related therapies have tended to be either hotly advocated or decried, not the least were those of Janet and Freud. Once again there is a vigorous debate surrounding the status of rec...

This Article examines everything we know about the effectiveness of fa~th-based prisons, which is not very much. Most studies cannot be taken seriously because they are tainted by the "self-selection problem. " It is hard to determine the effect of faith-based prison programs because they are voluntary, and volunteers are more likely to be motivated to change and are therefore already less like...

Traditionally, it has been assumed that pitch is the most important prosodic feature for the marking of prominence, and of other phenomena such as the marking of boundaries or emotions. This role has been put into question by recent studies. As nowadays larger databases are always being processed automatically, it is not clear up to what extent the possibly lower relevance of pitch can be attri...