for 22 Oct. 2015 The Lernaean Hydra was a mythological creature, which, when one of its many heads was cut off, immediately grew two more. One of the ten labors of Hercules was to slay the Hydra. In order to help Hercules slay a mathematical version of the Hydra, we will introduce transfinite ordinal numbers, to do what Peano arithmetic cannot. Bring swords, helmets and spears, and a willingnes...

Hundreds of years ago, sailors were terrified by the Kraken, a dreadful sea monster capable of sinking ships and with a taste for human flesh. Today we know the legends of this monster were based on sightings of giant squids. This animal belongs to the genus Architeuthis and was the subject of many scientific studies. Despite its enormous size (up to 18m), the giant squid is astoundingly elusiv...

From an experiential, hands-on perspective, the Developmental Biology Laboratory is easily amenable to a wide range of undergraduate-friendly experiments. Thus, pivoting virtual laboratory during COVID-19 pandemic required significant reconfiguring capture essence student-driven The innovative activity described here was inspired by nuggets truth contained within many mythological origin storie...

''Chacun d'eux portait sur son dos une e ´norme Chimère'' [Each one of them carried on his back an enormous Chimera] —Baudelaire, Le Spleen de Paris, bk. VI Until the end of the seventeenth century, the monstrous body had a mythological function: A sign from irate gods, the monster (Kapler 1980) is not malformed like Oedipus's twisted foot/fate, it is a prodigious creature whose corporeal forma...

Since time immemorial the snake has been venerated as an enigmatic creature with supernatural powers. As a snake and staff symbol it is also traditionally associated with the healing arts, either as the single-snake emblem of Asklepios, or as the double-snake emblem (caduceus) of Hermes. The mythological basis for this symbolism is reviewed. The Asklepian emblem has been associated with health ...

The results of the motivational analysis Wu Cheng-en’s novel “A Journey to West” are presented, mythological meanings individual object-material images studied, a set ritual actions related hair is considered: pulling out wool, casting spell, turning around. idea variety functions hair, endowed with mystical properties in many systems, taken as starting point; they included thanatal, carnival a...

Literature as an academic subject is characterized by rather wide possibilities of forming the right attitude to ecological issues. The purpose paper examine ways developing culture in lessons at university framework online course “Ecological issues Russian Literature”. following tasks are set: select authors who actively develop environmental their works, introduce terminological vocabulary, e...

In The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell recounts a curious phenomenon of animal behavior. Newly hatched chickens, bits of eggshells still clinging to their tails, will dart for cover when a hawk flies overhead; yet they remain unaffected by other birds. Furthermore, a wooden model of a hawk, drawn forward along a wire above their coop, will send them scurrying (if the model is pulled backward, how...

This study examined 3- and 4-year-old preschoolers' ability to learn proper names containing familiar descriptions. Children saw a novel creature with a familiar property (it was red) and heard either an adjective ("This is a red one") or a descriptive proper name ("This is Mr. Red"). The creature was then transformed, losing the property (e.g., it became green). Children had to extend the word...