Africas of the MindFrom Indigenous Medicine to Environmental Psychoanalysis Brendon Nicholls (bio) In Africa, some say, no one ever truly dies.1 Where organisms end, ancestors begin.2 Infant ogbanje return from dead, plaguing grief.3 Human and animal blur nightly in therianthropic anthropomorphic crossings.4 subject is endlessly mutable. this sense, curative impulses psychoanalysis Western medi...

The Supreme Court’s precedents continue to tolerate many practices that would shock modern sensibilities. Eugenic sterilization, race-based naturalization, forced labor on public roads, the conscription of child soldiers, and exclusion non-heterosexual immigrants all remain ostensibly valid policy options. Yet Court lacks standard tools for phasing out decisions offend our national character. v...

The study was conducted in Charfasson upazila of Bangladesh to assess the farmers’ perception on climate change, adoption smart agricultural (CSA) practices, and food security condition. primary data were collected from 120 sample respondents through face interview using a pretested schedule. Findings revealed that farmers Charland exhibited extensive individual disparities terms their socioeco...

Last Christmas, our toddler asked Santa for a stethoscope. While initially “a black one like Mommy’s” was requested, my daughter learned that a pink and purple Dora stethoscope was possible and was impressed with Santa when it arrived. She wore it proudly, even exclaiming loudly during a toilet-training moment: “This doctor has got to Poo!” “Helping sick people,” the gist of our job as emergenc...

(2015) Developing mathematical thinking in the primary classroom: liberating students and teachers as learners of mathematics. This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the URL above for details on acces...

Historian Lynn White wanted to understand why the Western civilization had exploited nature so much that its own quality of life--even survival--was now at stake. concluded answer is: Judeo-Christian tradition.The environmental movement began in early 1960s, with far-reaching changes American values and attitudes, were powering a growing interest wilderness preservation.By destroying pagan anim...

As has often been said, people get set in their ways of thinking, living and believing until they are unable to see situations in ways other than what they are used to. Their brains just refuse to change its paradigm of thinking. For me, I have always thought of business in a certain way. Firstly, I was never really exposed to the concept of business, going as far back as I can remember. My fat...

we were children, we would draw wrist wat ches, colorful rings, or our friends' t elephone numbers on t he backs of our hands and crib sheet s wit h not es of mat hemat ical formulae or endless list s of kings and queens on our palms. Having a bat h or sweat ing would erase t hose works of art or mini-encyclopedias. During t hose early years, our skin was t he canvas on which our rudiment ary a...

Visua l illusion is the fallacious percep ti on of rea lity or some ac t ua lly existi ng object. In t his paper , we imit at e the mechanism of Ehrenst ein illusion, neon color sp readi ng illnsion , wa te r­ color illusion, Kanizsa illusion, shifted edg es illusion , and hybrid image illusion using t he O pen Source Comput er Vision Library (OpenCV). We also im itate th ese illusions using Ce...