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The Rényi Entropy and Entropic Cosmology. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Kruglov SI.
europepmc   +1 more source

Nature's Complexity Alive: Farewell to Several Unificatory Cosmological Arguments for Monism

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism—in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra‐cosmic ultimate being—theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe.
Lok‐Chi Chan
wiley   +1 more source

Modified Gravity: From Black Holes Entropy to Current Cosmology, 4th Edition. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Bamba K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Life, but Not as We Know It: Why Fine‐Tuning Arguments Fail

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Definitions of “life” and theories of life are systematically neglected in arguments for and from fine‐tuning. Despite claims to be neutral about the definition of “life,” fine‐tuning arguments generally presuppose that life requires a form of structural complexity only afforded by physicochemical complexity of the sort with which we are ...
Joe Gough
wiley   +1 more source

Everyone wants something better than ΛCDM. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Turner MS.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Universe of Earths: Our Planet and Other Worlds, from Copernicus to NASA. Dennis Danielson and Christopher M. Graney. New York: Oxford UP, 2025. xv + 185pp. ISBN 13: 9780197803516. $34.95 (hardcover)

Milton Quarterly, EarlyView.
John Leonard
wiley   +1 more source

WHAT ONCE WAS SHALL BE AGAIN: PALAEOLITHIC BIFACES AT THE NEOLITHIC SITE OF GIV'AT RABI EAST

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, EarlyView.
Summary Giv'at Rabi East is a Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B site located in northern Israel, interpreted as a flint workshop. One area has been spatially identified as a ‘biface locality’; it is characterized by the presence of finished axes and preforms alongside débitage. Interestingly, Acheulean bifaces have also been recovered from this area.
Ella Assaf
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Concepts and Practices of Health and Illness Among the Wixaritari Indigenous People of Western Mexico: An Ethnographic Study. [PDF]

Cureus
Ramos Herrera IM, Orozco HB, Crocker RC, Castañeda QC, Sanchez L, McKinnon L, Shattuck E, Sunil T, Vázquez JL, Rubio SM.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

Snakes and snakebites in the munduruku cosmology and medicine, central Brazilian Amazonia. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Dias GR, Lavareda GRD, Gomes TA, Silva GRDD, Melo GS, Almeida MC, Silva MLD, Oliveira UG, Wen FH, Sachett J, Farias AS, Murta F, Machado VA, Monteiro W.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source