Technological corporations and the digital services they provide play an increasingly important role in production dissemination of news, e.g., through media’s growing reliance on algorithmic recommender systems that perform gatekeeping functions. Bringing together three areas interest – relationships between large technological professional news media, deployment non-democracies, their perceiv...

We describe the implementation of the shearingbox approach into the Godunovtype central-upwind/constraint-transport magnetohydrodynamics code NIRVANA. This will allow for applications which require sheared-periodic boundary conditions as typically used in local Cartesian simulations of differentially rotating systems. We present the algorithm in detail and discuss necessary modifications in the...

We have used the vectorised and parallelised magnetohydrodynamics code NIRVANA on the NEC SX-5 and the new SX-6 installation in parallel mode to simulate the interaction of jets with a galactic wind that might be typical for the star-bursting radio-galaxies of the early universe. The two simulations, one axisymmetric and one in 3D show that the jet pierces and destroys a thin and dense shell pr...

This essay defends a Buddhist answer to the question of how skeptical tradition might account for its moral position. Two domains in thought and practice are often considered be dissimilar, perhaps contradictory. On one hand, there is an aspiration nirvana philosophy that describes everything as “emptiness” rejects, with apparent universality, “attachment views.” other traditions recommend acti...

The continuing journey of using the OO approach as the basis for reusable components for ever increasing complex applications provides insight into the requirements for any supporting architecture, design and technology. OO started with solving some key issues in programming, providing an abstraction that was much more amenable to change than functional components. From programming, we turned o...