Overcoming US-North Korean Enmity: Lessons from an Eclectic IR Approach

Gravitational waves from black hole collisions via an eclectic approach

We present the first results in a new program intended to make the best use of all available technologies to provide an effective understanding of waves from inspiralling black hole binaries in time to assist imminent observations. In particular, we address the problem of combining the close-limit approximation describing ringing black holes and full numerical relativity, required for essential...

Philosophical Counseling as Psychotherapy: An Eclectic Approach

Contrary to current belief among many philosophers, I attempt to show that philosophical counseling is a form of psychotherapy that is in need of structure and guidance in order for it to prosper as a viable approach to mental health treatment. Methodological approaches are examined including dialectical, solution-oriented, and long-term considerations that comprise the nature of meaning analys...

From Enmity to Amity

Sloane’s influential On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences is an indispensable research tool in the service of the mathematical community. The sequence A001611 listing the “Fibonacci numbers + 1” contains a very large number of references and links. The sequence A000071 for the “Fibonacci numbers −1” contains an even larger number. Strangely, resentment seems to prevail between the two sequ...

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Korean Unification: Lessons from Germany

In the summer of 1989, pundits predicting the imminent demise of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) were scorned: the Communist Party appeared to be firmly in control, signs of protest were muted. Six months later the regime collapsed. German unification, though long expected, came as a surprise. Today, the possibility of a collapse of the North Korean government is not viewed with quite the ...