‘Treppie does not like guests’: <i>Xenia</i> in Marlene van Niekerk’s <i>Triomf</i>

Marlene Zuk

Last month, the cabinet of the UAE government banned the import of palm trees from any country where red palm weevil had been identified. “This is a great danger for the date palm industry,” said Abdul Wahab Zaid, the director of the date palm research and development unit in the UAE. “Ideally, movement of planting material from infested plantations within the country and also from one country ...

Reality Does Not Recognize Borders

Reality does not recognize borders. Why we should use the very general term of “reality” and not science, because the borders that we draw are pure delusions, and on the opposite side there is the reality. The laws of the universe, either the physical nature of the world which the scientist studies or metaphysics which is the territory of philosophers, it isthe same reality that rules. Today ma...

Hawking-like radiation does not require a trapped region.

We discuss the issue of quasiparticle production by "analogue black holes" with particular attention paid to the possibility of reproducing Hawking radiation in a laboratory. By constructing simple geometric acoustic models, we obtain a somewhat unexpected result: We show that, in order to obtain a stationary and Planckian emission of quasiparticles, it is not necessary to create a trapped regi...

Quantiication and Predication Jaap Van Der Does

Holography does not account for goodness: a critique of van der Helm and Leeuwenberg (1996).

P. A. van der Helm and E. L. J. Leeuwenberg (1996) outlined a holographic account of figural goodness of a perceptual stimulus. The theory is mathematically precise and can be applied to a broad spectrum of empirical data. The authors argue, however, that the account is inadequate on both theoretical and empirical grounds. The theoretical difficulties concern the internal consistency of the acc...