Milton and Galileo would back BMJ on free speech

Atmospheric Moons Galileo Would Have Loved

In the spirit of the symposium and the theme of the session of this presentation, 7 “Our solar system after Galileo, the grand vision,” I review briefly a relatively recently discovered 8 phenomenon in the solar system − existence of atmospheres on certain moons, including Io, one 9 of the four moons Galileo discovered four centuries ago. The origin of such atmospheres is 10 discussed, and comp...

the effects of speech rate,prosodic features, and blurred speech on iranian efl learners listening comprehension

کلید واژه ها به زبان انگلیسی: effect of speech rate on listening comprehension, blurred speech,segmental and suprasegmental features,authentic speech,intelligibility, discrimination, omission, assimilation چکیده: سرعت مطالب شنیداری در کلام پیوسته بطور کلی همواره کابوسی بوده برای یادگیرنده های زبان دوم و بالاخص برای شنوندگان ایرانی. علی رغم عقل سلیم که کلام با سرعت کندتری فعالیتهای درک مطلب شن...

The BMJ is wrong: doctor assisted dying would overmedicalise death.

The BMJ has decided to support the Assisted Dying Bill. This is a mistake. Medicine wields at once too much power and too little. We are rather impotent, for example, around social inequalities.Despite evidence that financial gradients make health worse, we lack the clout to influence government policy to tackle them. Yet, on the flipside, medical power can be exerted firmly in places where a m...

Galileo would have loved sports biomechanics, digitised ECG and his smartphone.

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is often referred to as the father of modern science. Initially a medical student, his obsession with measurement soon turned him to physics, mathematics and astronomy. Galileo was the first to accurately measure time by harnessing the principles of the pendulum and his improvements of the telescope led to massive advances in the fields of physics and astronomy. In p...

Milton and Socinianism