Invariant Boltzmann-Shannon Entropy for Black-Holes: A Manifestly-Covariant Canonical Quantum-Gravity Approach. [PDF]
Cremaschini C +2 more
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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser +2 more
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A Review on the Geometry of the Conharmonic Curvature Tensor of Almost Hermitian and Almost Contact Metric Manifolds. [PDF]
Abood HM, AlHusseini FH.
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Environmental Release of Genetically Intervened Microorganisms: Towards a New Narrative
From control to partnership: Rethinking the environmental release of laboratory‐trained microorganisms for bioremediation. ABSTRACT The deliberate release of genetically engineered microorganisms for environmental applications has remained largely blocked since the early days of recombinant DNA technology, when limited ecological knowledge, lack of ...
Victor de Lorenzo
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The Evolution of Physical Laws and the Entropic Measure of Time. [PDF]
Martyushev LM.
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The Great Cosmic Silence: What Does the Fermi Paradox Tell About the Future of Humanity?
ABSTRACT This article examines how institutional time horizons shape the long‐term survival prospects of human technological civilisation. While research on global catastrophic and existential risks has expanded, the temporal structures of political‐economic institutions remain underexamined.
Heikki Patomäki
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Origins of life: the possible and the actual. [PDF]
Solé R, Kempes C, Stepney S.
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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta
ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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From healing landscapes to biocultural conservation: the role of Ficus septica in karst ecosystems of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. [PDF]
Ismail A +5 more
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ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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