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On two arguments for fanaticism

open access: yesNoûs, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 565-595, September 2024.
Abstract Should we make significant sacrifices to ever‐so‐slightly lower the chance of extremely bad outcomes, or to ever‐so‐slightly raise the chance of extremely good outcomes? Fanaticism says yes: for every bad outcome, there is a tiny chance of extreme disaster that is even worse, and for every good outcome, there is a tiny chance of an enormous ...
Jeffrey Sanford Russell
wiley   +1 more source

From hunter‐gatherers to food producers: New dental insights into the Nile Valley population history (Late Paleolithic–Neolithic)

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 184, Issue 4, August 2024.
Abstract Objectives This study presents biological affinities between the last hunter‐fisher‐gatherers and first food‐producing societies from the Nile Valley. We investigate odontometric and dental tissue proportion changes between these populations from the Middle Nile Valley and acknowledge the biological processes behind them.
Nicolas Martin   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tomb at Abusir South from a time of change belonging to Ankhires, inspector of hairdressers of the Great House (AS 98) [PDF]

open access: yesPražské Egyptologické Studie, 2018
A new tomb (AS 98) of Ankhires, inspector of hairdressers of the Great House, was excavated at Abusir South in the autumn seasons of 2016 and 2017.
Veronika Dulíková   +4 more
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Challenges posed by hijacked journals in Scopus

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 75, Issue 4, Page 395-422, April 2024.
Abstract This study presents and explains the phenomenon of indexjacking, which involves the systematic infiltration of hijacked journals into international indexing databases, with Scopus being one of the most infiltrated among these databases. Through an analysis of known lists of hijacked journals, the study identified at least 67 hijacked journals ...
Anna Abalkina
wiley   +1 more source

THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 45-70, March 2024.
ABSTRACT This article discusses the impact of genomic history, a subdiscipline that emerged in the study of the ancient Mediterranean in the 2010s. In 2014, scientists first published a method for extracting genetic material, which they christened aDNA (ancient DNA), from ancient human remains in hot climates.
Christopher Stedman Parmenter
wiley   +1 more source

Anti‐natalism is incompatible with Theory X

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 114-120, February 2024.
Abstract The anti‐natalist philosopher David Benatar defends a position asserting that all life is harmful, and that it is, therefore, wrong to have children. In this paper, I critique Benatar's less‐discussed claim that his anti‐natalism provides solutions to population ethics problems, such as the Non‐Identity Problem, the Repugnant Conclusion, and ...
Fumitake Yoshizawa
wiley   +1 more source

Holocene landscape reconstruction in the surroundings of the Temple of Pepi I at ancient Bubastis, southeastern Nile Delta (Egypt)

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 17-34, January/February 2024.
Abstract In ancient Egypt, lakes, canals, and other water bodies were an essential part of the sacred landscape in which temples were embedded. In recent years, geoarchaeological research at the site of the Temple of Bastet at Bubastis in the southeastern Nile Delta has proven the existence of two water canals surrounding the temple.
Philipp Garbe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

NOTES ON THE COFFIN CG 41009 AND RELATIONSHIP EXTENT WITH THE SAME FATE AS OSIRIS DURING THE WINTER SOLSTICE (KHOIAK FEASTS) [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Heritage Research
The theme of this research paper seeks to to provide some observations regarding the coffin preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which bears the inventory number / Catalogue No. (CG 41009 (CG 41009).
Seham Hussein   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Space fantasy: Nagaoka Shusei's contributions to Afrofuturist visual culture

open access: yes
The Journal of American Culture, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 3-22, March 2025.
Nathan Hesselink
wiley   +1 more source

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