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Leviathans and Liberation: Did Whaling Contribute to the Decline of Slavery?
International Social Science Journal, Volume 75, Issue 257, Page 507-519, September 2025.ABSTRACT We test the hypothesis slavery started declining in the United States not due to fossil fuel‐driven industrialization but the exploitation of the bioenergy reserves of the world's largest animals. We predict the population in slavery in US states from 1790 to 1840 as a function of the recorded whaling harvest.
Topher L. McDougal +1 more
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Lacan e o campo do trágico ou Os significantes gregos de Medéia
Viso, 2007 Este artigo, inspirado na leitura lacaniana da Antígona de Sófocles, tenta ler a Medéia de Eurípides, visando delimitar, a partir de alguns significantes gregos do texto, aquilo que chamaremos de "o campo do trágico", isto é, o que Lacan chamou de o ...
Cláudio Oliveira
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The Intriguing 4D Seismic Signature of Reservoir Pore Collapse in Weakly Cemented Sandstones
Geophysical Prospecting, Volume 73, Issue 6, July 2025.ABSTRACT Time‐lapse seismic signals and their relation to variations in reservoir pore pressure and fluid saturations are, in general, well understood. Occasionally time‐lapse (4D) seismic data do present some intriguing anomalies that cannot be properly explained by our general well stablished expectations, forcing us to consider less conventional ...
Gustavo Côrte, Colin MacBeth
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Intriga cómica versus intriga trágica en Tesmoforiantes de Aristófanes
Emerita, 2012 Tesmoforiantes es una comedia con una amplia presencia de elementos paródicos tomados de las tragedias de salvación de Eurípides. En el presente artículo analizamos la forma en la que Aristófanes, a la hora de configurar la acción en esta comedia, recrea
Milagros Quijada Sagredo
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Speaking Truth to Power: Understanding the Role of Political Theater in Russia
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 149-156, April 2026.
Katherine A. New
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 511-575, July 2025.Abstract The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”.
Elias Papaioannou
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Patient autonomy in the context of digital health
Bioethics, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 404-413, June 2025.Abstract Digital health opens the door to a promising horizon where the combination of several sciences and the application of new technologies can improve health, hope and quality of life. However, it is essential to ensure that such advances are compatible with and respectful of the right to privacy, data protection, right to information and freedom ...
Salvador Tarodo Soria
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 424-437, June 2025.Abstract Two theories dominate the current debate over the nature of verbal irony: the pretence theory and the echoic theory. It is common ground in this debate that irony is sometimes both echoic and enacted through pretence; my concern here is with such cases.
Gregory Currie
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A Chaplinish Play: Adrienne Kennedy's A Lancashire Lad
Critical Quarterly, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 106-120, December 2025.
Mert Dilek
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Nietzsche and Schiller on Aesthetic Distance
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 562-576, June 2025.Abstract A key contention of Nietzsche's philosophy is that art helps us affirm life. A common reading holds that it does so by paving over, concealing, or beautifying life's undesirable features. This interpretation is unsatisfactory for two main reasons: Nietzsche suggests that art should foreground what is ‘ugly’ about existence, and he sees ...
Timothy Stoll
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