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ReOrientIn this article, I engage with the backstory to Frank Herbert’s Dune saga, viz. The Butlerian Jihad, tracing its genealogy, and considering its possible relevance for thinking about and motivating an Islamicate response to artificial intelligence (AI)
Syed Mustafa Ali
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Doughnuts in Space: Orientalism in Frank Herbert’s Dune
Söylem Filoloji Dergisi, 2021 As a neglected genre in the academia, science fiction, silently but diligently, explored the frontier of intellectual horizon through ideas projected into the future in forms of stories woven around outer worlds in distant galaxies. In such endeavours, it relied heavily on world-building, whose foundation stones are alien races, cultures, and languages.
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Fish welfare in a changing world: New developments and current challenges
Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.Abstract The welfare of non‐human animals is central to ethical discussions on animal use, with increasing attention to fish welfare across research, aquaria, aquaculture, and fisheries. This paper reviews current theoretical approaches to animal welfare and recent advances in defining and assessing fish welfare since the seminal paper by Huntingford ...
Sonia Rey Planellas +16 more
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Disagreement About Fiscal Policy
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Politicians disagree about fiscal policy. This disagreement should have economic effects beyond the effects of government spending and taxation. We use the full set of speeches in the German Bundestag since 1960 and apply state‐of‐the art natural language processing techniques to construct two series of fiscal disagreement starting in 1970 ...
Albina Latifi +3 more
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, 1953 Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to Isaac Herbert Kempner Jr.
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
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How Was Democracy Under the Administrative Presidency Supposed to Work?
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aggressive use of the administrative power of the presidency is a major source of public administrative concern about the health of American democracy. Many of these powers stem from executive branch reorganization in the late 1930s, which was conceived and implemented by founding figures in the modern field.
Ben Merriman
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An Ecocritical Examination of Ray Bradbury’s “The Fog Horn” and “Here There Be Tygers”
CrossingsEcological concerns have been a significant theme in works of science fiction across various mediums. Juxtaposed against technological advancements and the overall progress of humanity are the horrors of ecological destruction, scarcity of resources ...
Maria Mollah
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The potential of seedbank digital information in plant conservation
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1017-1028, July 2026.Seedbanks are vital for biodiversity conservation, but their potential remains underutilised due to a limited understanding of the intraspecific genetic diversity they hold. By leveraging digitised data associated with seedbank collections, such as sampling locations, number of maternal plants and seed traits, we can attempt the estimation of genetic ...
Roberta Gargiulo +23 more
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, 1956 DIE KRISE DES GEISTES : DREI ESSAYS / PAUL VALÉRY. HRSG. VON HERBERT STEINER. [BERECHT. ÜBERS. VON HERBERT STEINER UND FRANK RÜMELIN] Die Krise des Geistes : drei Essays / Paul Valéry. Hrsg. von Herbert Steiner. [Berecht. Übers.
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, 2020 This thread is dedicated to a general discussion on anything related to Dune or Frank Herbert. Also, feel free to introduce yourself: Is this your first time reading Dune? If not, how does Dune rank among your favorite sci-fi books?
Herbert, Frank
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