Morskoye Cemetery: about Memory and Oblivion

Protection through Oblivion

The growth of high speed computer networks and that of the Internet, in particular, has increased the ease of Information Communication. Ironically, the cause for the development is also of the apprehension use of digital formatted data. In comparison with Analog media, Digital media offers several distinct advantages such as high quality, easy editing, high fidelity copying, compression etc. B...

How tumors escape oblivion

and colleagues have found that certain successful Streptococci actually avoid attachment to host cells. This contrasts with the modus operandi of most pathogenic bacteria. The M1 serotype of the highly heterogeneous Group A Streptococcus (GAS) pathogen is the most common GAS strain found in severe disease outbreaks. M1 GAS are unique in that they produce streptococcal inhibitor of complement (S...

Road to oblivion

While legislation is growing worldwide to protect vulnerable species from human development, in effect many conservationists are increasingly frustrated by the conflicts that often see wildlife and the environment losing out. Frustration over plans for a new road in southern England 10 years ago across both chalk downland and wetland, some of the richest and most threatened habitats in Britain,...

What about Memory, Consciousness, Recall, and Awareness in Anesthesia?

Commemorating bodies and lives at Kish’s ‘A Cemetery’: (Re)presenting social memory

Over the course of a decade, the Joint Oxford-Field Museum Expedition to Kish recovered artifacts and skeletal remains from one of the most influential city-states in ancient Mesopotamia. We focus here on the process of commemoration of the dead as evidenced in the graves excavated from Kish’s ‘A Cemetery’. We use skeletal remains, fieldnotes, and artifactual evidence to situate these individua...