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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
wiley   +1 more source

Apocalyptic Beauty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
A potent and formative text for a theological aesthetics faithful to the God revealed in the Scriptures is the Apocalypse of John (Revelation). An apocalyptic viewpoint is beautiful inasmuch as it observes the whole from within the part of time/space and
Scalise, Brian T
core   +1 more source

Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

A Novel Symmetric Four Dimensional Polytope Found Using Optimization Strategies Inspired by Thomson's Problem of Charges on a Sphere [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Inspired by, and using methods of optimization derived from classical three dimensional electrostatics, we note a novel beautiful symmetric four dimensional polytope we have found with 80 vertices.
Altschuler, Eric Lewin   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Not Just Half a Doctor: Promoting Humanism During Stressful Times

open access: yes
Annals of the Child Neurology Society, EarlyView.
Nigel S. Bamford   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public Perceptions and Engagement for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage: Literature Review With a Case Study of Utah, USA

open access: yesGreenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Carbon dioxide capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is a potential key to mitigating anthropogenic CO2 emissions and associated impacts on global climate change. Successful CCUS deployment hinges on both technological advancements and public support.
Ting Xiao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Methylene‐Bridged Calixarene Polyhedra: An Elusive Class of Symmetric Molecular Architectures

open access: yesHelvetica Chimica Acta, EarlyView.
An overview of purely hypothetical methylene‐bridged calixarene polyhedral molecular architectures is presented. In addition to the five previously postulated structures, we propose a calix[5]arene‐based icosidodecahedron as a new member of this class. Computational assessments of stability and strain indicate that methanospherophane is likely the most
Aleksandr Kharchenko   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of 13th: A Beautiful and Powerful Wake Up Call [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This film review of 13th is featured in the journal Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities, volume ...
Nadler, Sophie
core   +1 more source

Complex Beauty

open access: yesComplex Systems, 2015
Complex systems and their underlying convoluted networks are ubiquitous, all we need is an eye for them. They pose problems of organized complexity which cannot be approached with a reductionist method. Complexity science and its emergent sister network science both come to grips with the inherent complexity of complex systems with an holistic strategy.
openaire   +3 more sources

Growing Demand and Uneven Supply: Eight Years of Nature Education in China 需求增长与供给不均:中国自然教育八年发展回顾

open access: yesIntegrative Conservation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of nature education in advancing conservation and sustainability in China between 2014 and 2023. Drawing on national survey reports and historical–comparative methods, it analyses the dynamics of public demand, institutional supply, and practitioner capacity.
Qi Yunxi, Lyu Xiang, Huang Yu
wiley   +1 more source

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