Tale of Two Fellows

Tale of Two Fellows

Dawkins and Latour: A Tale of Two Unlikely Fellows

Two popular, yet highly controversial concepts of non-human agency from two different fields of knowledge are compared in this essay: the theory of the selfish gene, introduced into neo-Darwinian evolutionary biology by Richard Dawkins, and actor-network theory, as brought forward in science & technology studies by Bruno Latour. It is argued that the two theories, despite all apparent differenc...

An Architectural Tale of the Two Cities

A comparative study of the corresponding styles of Western and Iranian modern architecture has hardly ever been carried out in detail. This paper aims to sketch out an outline for such an investigation and to present a summary of empirical evidence accompanied by field observations to elaborate the ongoing trend of relationship between architectural styles in Iran and that of the West. This is ...

A tale of two Es.

This is the strange tale of two drugs each with a name beginning with the letter E. One is a dangerous killer that leads to thousands of deaths every year and the other is ecstasy (MDMA). The big killer is of course alcohol (ethanol) which, for historical reasons, is a legal drug in the UK (though not in many Muslim states). Ecstasy is currently a Class A illegal drug under the Misuse of Drugs ...

A tale of two hemispheres

specific type of gravity model when a homogeneous distribution of the populations (and thus opportunities) is assumed. This could explain why the gravity-theory analogy has been so persistent in mobility research, and also indicates that it is equivalent to an idealized scenario, one hardly ever encountered in real-life settings. The radiation model may provide a route to further exploration. I...