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Retracted: Can the chemical industry solve the climate change?On the role of human energy production, renewable energies, and the potential of chemistry as a solution provider

open access: yesChemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView., 2023
Let us consider an alternative perspective on climate change: The sum of solar radiation and heat generated by human activity result in a net energy input of 1.96 times that of the Sun on the Earth's surface. The expanding global population is expected to exacerbate this issue. Potential solutions are proposed, including replacement and heat recycling.
Martin Bertau, Gerald Steiner
wiley   +1 more source

'Death and Doctor Hornbook' by Robert Burns: A view from medical history [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Robert Burns's poem, Death and Doctor Hornbook, 1785, tells of the drunken narrator's late night encounter with Death. The Grim Reaper is annoyed that ‘Dr Hornbook’, a local schoolteacher who has taken to selling medications and giving medical advice, is
Nicolson, M.
core   +1 more source

The Danish Cartoons, Charlie Hebdo and the culture wars: satiric limits in comparative national and transnational perspectives

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2021
A considerable body of academic literature has lauded political satirists as rebellious defenders of democracy and free speech against an establishment.
Mark John Rolfe
doaj   +1 more source

Using counterfactuals to display facts – the case of satirical humor

open access: yesExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2016
Satire has not been given the humorologists’ attention to an extent that would do justice to the amount of humor satire actually holds. Therefore, the intention of this paper is to shed light on satire as humorous discourse, with an emphasis on ...
Maslo Adi
doaj   +1 more source

Satire in the Stories of Hassan Ghezelji’s Laugher of the Beggar

open access: yesپژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2021
Most of the literary works contain a message, and the poets and writers try to convey the message in different ways to impress their readers. Hassan Ghezelji, the Kurdish writer, sought to express the message through using a unique, concise, and ...
Hawkar Mohammad Rashid
doaj   +1 more source

Adaptive agency: the satire genre and the motives behind its use in the era of social media in China

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Unlike previous studies analyzing the effect of being exposed to satire, this study adopts a meta-discursive approach to explore the generic features of Chinese satire and the underlying motives and reference frames behind satire use.
Yipeng Xi
doaj   +1 more source

A Study on the Satire and Humor Techniques in Iranian Folklore Legends [PDF]

open access: yesنثرپژوهی ادب فارسی, 2019
Satire and humor are forms of lyric literature that have always drawn attention from official authors and poets. As satire in valuation of official art tries to follow serious objective in the form of laughter and mockery and its horizons and territories
Fatemeh Noofeli, Zarin taj Varedi
doaj   +1 more source

The Use of Satire by Aghakokey Bedary

open access: yesپژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2023
Aghakokey Bedary, who lived in the eighteenth century, was a poet who is not very well-known to the contemporary reader. Apologetically, his entire works in poetry have not been published yet, except for a number of his poems that were published ...
Waheed Ramadhan
doaj   +1 more source

Informativ und kritisch? Die Politikdarstellung in deutschen Satiresendungen

open access: yesMedien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 2018
Der Beitrag schließt an die Debatte zu den Konsequenzen politischer Satire an, in der sich Vorstellungen einer zur Meinungsbildung anregenden produktiven Satire und einer pseudo-kritischen Satire gegenüberstehen, die politischen Zynismus fördere.
Dennis Lichtenstein, Cordula Nitsch
doaj   +1 more source

Reconstruction of spectral solar irradiance since 1700 from simulated magnetograms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We present a reconstruction of the spectral solar irradiance since 1700 using the SATIRE-T2 (Spectral And Total Irradiance REconstructions for the Telescope era version 2) model.
Dasi-Espuig, M.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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