As was his custom, Theodore Conrad was at the kitchen Seated front and center in the pew to Larson’s right was stove eagerly preparing his favorite sauce for rigatoni: Matsie Bart. As a member of city council, Matsie felt it her cream with basil and anchovies; cloves of roasted garlic, civic duty to ‘tend her flock, to keep the faith.’ As she sliced on the long axis; and melted gorgonzola. As h...

I was on shaky footing with RNA interference (RNAi) and microRNAs (miRNAs), and I knew I had to do something about it. As the number of miRNAs in humans escalated and I tried to sort through the twists and turns of the compelling story of their discovery, I turned to a colleague for insight. ‘‘Interview Victor Ambros,’’ he said, and I took his advice. For those of you who might also benefit fro...

In August 1861 the London-based newspaper The Times published world’s first “daily weather forecast.” term itself was created by enterprising meteorologist Robert FitzRoy, who wanted to distance his work from astrological “prognostications.” That story has led a widespread assumption that forecasting is an entirely modern phenomenon and in earlier periods only quackery or folklore-based signs w...

Latest European Union programs related to energy efficiency underline the need for retrofitting existing buildings, which are responsible for 40% of EU final energy consumption. Although new buildings can be constructed with high performance levels, the majority of the building stock, characterized by a low energy performance, still needs renovation. Thanks to its potential to deliver high ener...

The doctrine of Heavenly Mother has long been invoked by Mormon women and feminists to posit an expanded view gender in cosmology offer a tangible representation their eternal future. At the same time, lack worship or veneration divine feminine Mormonism raises question whether potential influence temporal state women. Historically missing from literature theological critiques is inclusion grou...

In their article "Translation, Cross-cultural interpretation, and World Literatures" Qingben Li and Jinghua Guo discuss how to make what is national literature become part of world literatures and posit that there are at least two ways by this can be done: translation and crosscultural interpretation. Translation covers not only the conversion of language, but also the selection and variation o...

In late February 2022, the prospect of a quick and efficient decapitation Ukraine's political leadership, followed by installation puppet government in Kyiv, was greeted Western capitals with certain grim resignation. governments might protest impose limited sanctions on Russia, taking care that none would inflict an undue burden their own economies, but nothing could be done to prevent Ukraine...

this article examines the cultural and artistic context of one of the most famous roman frescoes, the Odyssey landscapes. it argues that the painting’s fictive portico frame would have evoked in the roman viewer the experience of the ambulatio, the act of walking for leisure and contemplation that came to be an essential element of a properly hellenized otium. the painted portico thus puts the ...

This paper examines one of the less-discussed modes of anti-globalization, relocalization or local autonomy. It describes a range of autonomous movements, summarizes their political economic ideas, and discusses some common social critiques raised in regard to local autonomy. Apologists for the costly side effects of the globalization process argue that integration into the global economy bring...