The purpose of this paper was to present the link between myths in plots modern entertainment products, such as science fiction novels, movies, comic books and video games, with motifs New Religiosity. employed these products are a mythical nature. This re-emergence myth is once more taking centre stage today. social sciences humanities concerned phenomenon call it “neomythology”. Neomythology,...

In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions. He is depicted as having 2 faces on his head, facing opposite directions: one face looks eastward and the other westward, looking simultaneously into the future and the past. He also symbolizes change and transitions such as the progression of one condition to another, of one vision to another (Fig. 1) (1,2).

Giant is a term used to describe a legendary humanlike being of great stature and strength. In Greek mythology, the giants Cyclopes rebelled against the Olympian Gods in a battle that ended in their final defeat, this resulting in Olympian sovereignty on earth. They initially appeared in Hesiod’s Theogony as children of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky) and were described as powerful, savage and fe...

Contrary to popular mythology, Einstein did not invent the cosmological constant just in order construct his model universe. He discussed it earlier in “The Foundations of General Relativity”in connection with the proper structure of the source-free field equations. There he dismissed it as arbitrary and unnecessary. It was later that he found its inclusion to be essential to the construction o...

Many frameworks for the writing of urban history in South Asia have interpreted the city as aspace of socio-political organisation, rather than an object of thought itself. By contrast, thisarticle examines how a mythologised version of Lucknow’s illustrious pre-colonial history,particularly its supposed cultural refinement (tehzib), was evoked in the colonial-era city.Examining...

This is the time of the precision medicine, as President Barak Obama addressed the Nation on January 20, 2015 in a State of the Union Address: Tonight, I'm launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes - and to give all of us access to the personalized information we need to keep ourselves and our families healthier (Francis S. Coll...

Currently, there is some scientific interest on studying creativity and how it can be modeled by computer programs. One of the active subareas focuses on the generation of text, with some prior success systems. In this paper, we describe an example of this kind of system that automatically generates texts related to Greek mythology. We have elaborated on ideas coming from computer creativity, s...

Compare to western cultures, women who smoke in Korea are not tolerated. Korean people are prejudiced against women smoking. In spite of the relative prevalence of sexual equality in South Korea, women too often feel obliged to confine their smoking to only a few public spaces, such as designated smoking rooms, coffee shops or pubs. Korean Confucianism classifies people according to gender and ...