Introduction: Between Spectacle and Resistance Some Thoughts on Public Space Today

Alternatives to animal experimentation yesterday, today and tomorrow: some thoughts on leaving ECVAM.

In April 1993, I left my position in the University of Nottingham Medical School to become the first head of ECVAM, the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods, a unit of the Environment Institute, part of the European Commission (EC) Joint Research Centre (JRC), located at Ispra, among the north-west Italian lakes. At that time, I had little idea of what Ispra would be like, ...

Some Thoughts on the Quantum Theory of de Sitter Space

This is a summary of two lectures I gave at the Davis Conference on Cosmic Inflation. I explain why the quantum theory of de Sitter (dS) space should have a finite number of states and explore gross aspects of the hypothetical quantum theory, which can be gleaned from semiclassical considerations. The constraints of a self-consistent measurement theory in such a finite system imply that certain...

Some thoughts on the relationship between knowledge and wisdom

Some Thoughts on the Connection between Demography and Development Dynamics

National development levels are still largely measured in terms of GNP per capita, the weak points of which relate to the fact that: • substantial elements of life quality (levels of health, education and nutrition) are not included; • nor are the environmental costs of growth; • actual purchasing power is not considered; • nor is social inequality within the countries; and • economic activitie...

Some Thoughts on Special

Here an introduction to Wesley’s neomechanics is presented. It is shown to produce some of the same results as Special Relativity but without both the mathematical and philosophical basis of that subject. As with other work in which results associated with General Relativity are obtained without recourse to the fundamental bases of that subject, so here too the preeminent place afforded Special...