“Storytelling is an ancient art”: Stories, Maps, Migrants and Flâneurs in Arnold Zable’s Selected Texts

Alcohol in Ancient Islamic Chemical and Medical Texts

Nowadays, Alcohol is widely used in medicine and industry. On the other hand, it is well-known for its intoxicant and addictive effects and they were common in the past. Discovery of it was imputed to Mohamad ibn Zakaria Razi (Rhazes, 925 AD) or Jaber ibn Hayan (Geber, 815 AD). The Islamic researchers’ viewpoint about alcohol and their knowledge about this substance are aimed to be explored in ...

Creative stories: Modelling the principal components of human creativity over texts in a storytelling game

The process of effectively applying techniques for fostering creativity in educational settings is – by nature – multifaceted and not straightforward, as it pertains to several fields such as cognitive theory and psychology. Furthermore, the quantification of the impact of different activities on creativity is a challenging and not yet thoroughly investigated task. In this paper, we present the...

An ancient black art.

The doctrine of pseudoreplication (DP) offers specific advice on how to ensure statistical independence and compute F-ratios properly when testing a null hypothesis. Our target article showed that this advice can lead to problems in experimental design and analysis. Though a few commenters attempt to defend DP, none offered substantive evidence that our modeling results were incorrect. In our r...

The art of storytelling

Creative Stories: a Storytelling Game Fostering Creativity

The process of identifying techniques for fostering creativity, and applying these theoretical constructs in real-world educational activities, is, by nature, multifaceted and not straightforward, pertaining to several fields such as cognitive theory and psychology. Furthermore, the quantification of the impact of different activities on creativity is a challenging and not yet thoroughly invest...