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In This Moment, We Are All Dr. Rieux: COVID-19, Existential Anxiety, and the Absurd Hero

open access: yes, 2020
With the COVID-19 pandemic, clients and therapists alike are apt to experience an increase in existential anxiety. Irvin Yalom formulates existential anxiety as the result of a confrontation with the givens of death, freedom, isolation, and ...
P. Farr
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The mechanism of labor in nonhuman primates: A look inside

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract While in humans, the flexed position of the fetus and its rotating course down the birth canal are well documented, in other primates the mechanism of labor is unknown. Despite the lack of comparative data, it is commonly assumed that the human obstetric mechanism is unique, and anthropologists have disputed when and why the transition to the ...
Melissa K. Stoller
wiley   +1 more source

Anatomy and variation in the paraphyletic Mosasaurus lemonnieri assemblage from the Craie phosphatée de ciply, Belgium

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Nineteenth century excavations of the Ciply‐Malogne Phosphatic Chalk Formation in Hainaut, Belgium, yielded over 50 partial mosasaur skeletons, the majority of which were referred to the species Mosasaurus lemonnieri Dollo, 1889. In the years since, this taxon has experienced a complicated taxonomic history, and its exceptional hypodigm has ...
Henry S. Sharpe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, or the promise of “something further”

open access: yesMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2019
Initially criticized for its generic confusion and singular narrative choices, Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857) was rehabilitated by twentieth-century critics who praised its modernity. By staging a trip on the Mississippi, the
Thomas Velasquez
doaj   +1 more source

Re‐humanizing anatomy? Learning through human body donors in physiotherapy education

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Anatomical knowledge underpins clinical skills and professional identity in physiotherapy. However, dedicated teaching has declined in recent years. Body donor‐based learning, though common in medical education, is rarely used in physiotherapy.
Robert Parish   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The doctoral journey as decolonial praxis: Self‐formation of Global South students in UK higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous research concerning Global South doctoral students in the United Kingdom has mainly situated their experiences within adaptationist paradigms, emphasising cultural adjustment and assimilation into Western academic norms. Such studies often depict students as passive recipients, overlooking their agency and the transformative potential
Peng Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Absurd Enspaced [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The contradictions between the ideal-reality, solid-void, and inside-outside are just a few of architecture’s most fundamental and accepted incompatibilities.
Silvia, Chelsea
core   +3 more sources

After All, 'Tutti Spinaceto!' Adrift, on Nanni Moretti’s Back

open access: yesHistories of Postwar Architecture
The portrayal of the city traversed on a scooter (sulla Vespa! – noblesse oblige), emerging from Nanni Moretti’s cinematic imagination, positions itself as a “motorised” device for a Situationist dérive. Beneath the apparent guise of erratic, solipsistic
Daniel Maurício Santos de Jesus
doaj   +1 more source

Absurd Existential Nihilism in Post-Colonial Literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article aims to provide a sketch on the Absurdly Existential Nihilism through the focusing on four major nihilist Post Colonial philosophers and their books named Moner Manush by Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly Waiting for Godot by ...
Md. Chand Ali
core  

Must Longtermists Wish Us All Dead? A Quadrilemma

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Longtermists assign great moral importance to making the long‐term future as good as possible, especially by ensuring the survival of humanity. We argue, to the contrary, that on assumptions that are plausible, conservative, or shared by leading longtermists, human extinction will likely augment total utility among human and non‐human animals ...
Nir Eyal, Bastian Steuwer, Shai Meiri
wiley   +1 more source

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