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Being Zen: Pelevin, Buddha, and the Void
The Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 4, Page 599-612, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Victor Pelevin, whose rise to popularity coincided with the fall of the Soviet Union, critiques the notion of national identity via the prism of Zen Buddhism. Pelevin embraces the religion’s idea of the volatile self and undertakes the project of spiritually empowering the Russians, by exposing the futility of constructing any national ...
Daniel Taehun Lee
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Agency in evolution of biomolecular communication
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1525, Issue 1, Page 88-103, July 2023., 2023 The emergence of agency in biomolecular systems involves a biphasic process of communication that constructs a message before it can be transmitted for interpretation. Evolutionary genomic and bioinformatic explorations suggest agency emerges when molecular machinery generates hierarchical layers of vocabularies in an entangled communication network ...
Gustavo Caetano‐Anollés
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Leaf angle as a leaf and canopy trait: Rejuvenating its role in ecology with new technology
Ecology Letters, Volume 26, Issue 6, Page 1005-1020, June 2023., 2023 Leaf angle is crucial in light interception for plant canopies. It is a morphological trait that is associated with many other leaf traits in the leaf economics spectrum. We reviewed the importance of leaf angle in ecology and used model simulations to demonstrate the importance of leaf angle in simulating canopy fluxes.
Xi Yang +11 more
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ChemPlusChem, Volume 88, Issue 5, May 2023., 2023 A metal worker's laboratory: from Georg Agricola, De re Metallica, Libri XII, Basel, 1556, illustrating a reverberatory oven similar to what Carl Wenzel would have used to divide his metals in the 1770s. This Perspective essay discusses Wenzel, who was a chemist and an alchemist with deep knowledge of acids, bases and salts, and he was credited with ...
Curt Wentrup
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Origins of Organic Chemistry and Organic Synthesis
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Volume 2022, Issue 25, July 7, 2022., 2022 The origins of organic chemistry and organic synthesis started in the middle ages, long before molecular compositions were known. Paradigm shifts caused by Lavoisier, Chevreuil, Wöhler, Liebig, Kolbe and Berthelot are highlighted. The graphic shows some early key organic molecules, but although synthesis and analysis had become well established ...
Curt Wentrup
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Três fragmentos de Empédocles (B 30, B 110, B 115): texto grego e tradução [PDF]
, 2021 Portuguese translation of three Empedocles’ fragments (B 30, B 110 and B 115 Diels–Kranz). — — — Tradução para o português de três fragmentos de Empédocles (B 30, B 110 e B 115 Diels–Kranz)
Reboredo, Luan
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Théorie poétique, vérité et représentation du divin chez Empédocle et Pindare
Pallas, 2018 Empedocles understands the truth-value of lyric poetry as a form of mythical authority from which the lyric poets wished to distinguish themselves; as the nature of their conception of truth depends on the necessity of honoring an athlete, the lyric ...
Xavier Gheerbrant
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A dimensão filosófica da forma poética em Empédocles [PDF]
, 2014 O projeto pretende examinar os fragmentos de dois poemas atribuídos à Empédocles, Da Natureza e Purificações, à luz da discussão envolvendo as relações entre poesia e filosofia no que diz respeito às origens da filosofia ocidental.
Thiago Rodrigues Lima
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Theophrastus Transmitting Empedocles
ClothoTheophrastus speaks of the kinship between living beings in connection with Empedocles in several of his works. In De Causis Plantarum 1.7.1, 1.13.2, and 1.21.5, he quotes and assesses Empedocles’ observations concerning plants and animals and their ...
Sandra Šćepanović
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The Editing of the Erotic in Hölderlin’s Empedocles Project
HumanitiesWhile the development of the Empedocles figure in the various versions of Hölderlin’s unfinished tragedy has long been the subject of scholarship, the shifts in his relationships to the women around him have largely gone unnoticed.
Priscilla Ann Hayden-Roy
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