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We introduce Viral Phrenology, a new scheme for understanding the genomic composition of spherical viruses based on the locations of their structural protrusions. We used icosahedral point arrays to classify 135 distinct viral capsids collected from over
David P. Wilson, Danielle A. Roof
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Paul Bouts and the Short Life of Psychognomy in Brazil [PDF]
Paul Bouts (1900–1999) was a Belgian pedagogue, a Roman Catholic priest, and the founder of Psychognomy, which is a personality diagnostic system combining phrenology and several related practices – typology, craniofacial measurements, physiognomy ...
Charles André
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Metaphors for the Masses: D.H. Lawrence on Stickiness, Insects and Democracy
This article considers how Lawrence finds in the dynamics of derogatory imagery the means to express his alienation from the masses. From 1916 onwards, the term “masses” is often paired with the adjective “sticky” in Lawrence’s works, an addition that is
Shirley Bricout
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Beckett’s Dystopian Trilogy, Part I: The Irrelevance of Godot
The article concentrates on a variety of textual alterations introduced to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot either in the process of translation by the author or by the third parties.
Stanley Gontarski
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From the birth of the cinema-attraction at the end of the 19th century to the public release of the Disney’s controversial animated feature-length Song of the South in 1946, the American animated film industry relentlessly depicted Black characters in a ...
Pierre Cras
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El esqueleto de la viuda Houet: Frenología y medicina legal en Francia durante la década de 1830
This paper deals with the judicial identification of corpses in nineteenth-century France. The case of the widow Houet (1833) is particularly interesting for this purpose because two contrasting techniques of identification were employed: forensic ...
José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez
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An empirical, 21st century evaluation of phrenology
Oiwi Parker Jones +2 more
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The intellectual revolution led by ancient Greek philosophers and physicians witnessed the extraordinary evolution of the birth of neuroscience from speculations of cardiocentrism (Aristotelism) and encephalocentrism (Galenism). Later further development
Bhaskara P Shelley
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