Flavobacterium algoriphilum sp. nov., Flavobacterium arabinosi sp. nov., Flavobacterium cryoconiti sp. nov., Flavobacterium galactosi sp. nov., Flavobacterium melibiosi sp. nov., and Flavobacterium algoris sp. nov., six novel cold-adapted bacteria isolated from glaciers. [PDF]
BMC MicrobiolYang LL, Xin YH, Liu Q.
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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<i>Pseudomonas lyxosi</i> sp. nov., <i>Pseudomonas arabinosi</i> sp. nov. and <i>Pseudomonas frigoris</i> sp. nov., isolated from glaciers. [PDF]
Int J Syst Evol MicrobiolZhao C, Xin YH, Liu Q.
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Ten novel psychrophilic <i>Flavobacterium</i> species from Tibetan Plateau glaciers define a cryospheric lineage with global cold-origin relatives. [PDF]
Int J Syst Evol MicrobiolLiu Q, Yang LL, Xin YH.
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
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Pengzhenrongella frigida sp. nov., isolated from a glacier. [PDF]
Int J Syst Evol MicrobiolLiu Q, Yang LL, Xin YH.
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Heidegger and Levinas on the phenomenology of the hand: Between work and gesture
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Heidegger and Levinas develop distinct phenomenological accounts of the hand. Both thinkers refuse to treat the hand as merely an anatomical organ, instead viewing it as an essential dimension of human existence. Yet their interpretations diverge sharply. In the first section, I show how Heidegger grounds the function
Cristian Ciocan
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