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Etymology and entomology: The semiotics and ethics of multispecies gene nomenclatures
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract This article examines controversies surrounding gene names that are perceived as humorous in the context of fruit flies but are considered rude in the clinical context of human medicine. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in insect laboratories, interviews with entomologists and geneticists, and an analysis of scientific and clinical ...
Colin M. E. Halverson
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E-REA, 2017 This essay explores the process linked to the desecration and subsequent rebuilding of monuments erected on the French Riviera to commemorate the British monarchs who had a positive influence on the development of Menton, Cannes and Nice as coastal ...
Gilles TEULIÉ
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Natural Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2026.ABSTRACT Proposing the concept of a conservative revolutionary generally and using the examples of Gregor Mendel, Max Delbrück, and Eric Davidson, I fundamentally call into question Thomas Kuhn's ideas of scientific revolutions. I also highlight some problematic consequences of the increasing appreciation of Kuhn's work among scientists and show that ...
Ute Deichmann
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An elegant model of the geodesic flow on the modular surface
Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 114, Issue 1, July 2026.Abstract Caroline Series' [The modular surface and continued fractions, J. Lond. Math. Soc. (2), 31, no. 1, (1985), 69–80] gives a clear framework linking, in a deceptively simple way, the dynamics of the geodesic flow on the modular surface with the dynamics of the regular continued fraction, through a well‐chosen symbolic coding.
Pierre Arnoux, Thomas A. Schmidt
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ReligionsThe polemics of idol worship in John Capgrave’s Life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria have been interpreted by previous scholars as either the author’s engagement with the Lollard image controversy or a political critique of Henry VI. This essay, however,
Yun Ni
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Blue plaque review series: Thomas Graham Brown: Before his time
Experimental Physiology, Volume 111, Issue 7, Page 3191-3202, 1 July 2026.Abstract Thomas Graham Brown made a seminal discovery, published in 1911 while he was a Carnegie Fellow in the University of Liverpool laboratory of Nobel Prize winner Charles S. Sherrington. Working in cats, he showed that rhythmic ‘voluntary’ behaviour, such as stepping and, by inference, walking, does not result from a chain of reflex events, but ...
Ronald L. Calabrese, Eve Marder
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Norman and Nietzsche: The Political Project of Lindsay's The Magic Pudding
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 2, Page 256-268, June 2026.Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) wrote 11 novels and two children's books, one of which—The Magic Pudding first published in 1918—remains a national classic. This article argues that readers and critics have long misunderstood Lindsay's intention in writing this lengthy cartoon‐story about the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum in ...
John Uhr
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WEIGHING THE WORK OF LOVE: ON KATE DAVIS’S RE-VISIONED ICONOCLASM
Art is on, 2018 This essay offers a close reading of recent work by Glasgow-based artist Kate Davis to argue that her practice engages iconoclasm in ways importantly modified by her feminist commitments.
Dominic Paterson
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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Epistemology and Ontology in Family Therapy: A ‘Holding’ of Both
Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 48, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper discusses the changes brought to family therapy by the advent of postmodern philosophy. We examine the role of social constructionism in this context and distinguish its various versions based on their realist or anti‐realist perspectives.
Tasos Travasaros
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