The distinction between esoteric and exoteric readings of Plato will be revisited in this article with respect to two esoteric approaches: the German Tübingen School and the American Straussians (i.e., those interpreters who have been inspired by the work of Leo Strauss). There appears to be a joint motivation for these two approaches, namely, the critique of writing in the dialogue Phaedrus an...

A brief introduction to the emergent discipline of in silico oncology along with its predominantly Platonic character is provided. The conceptual origins of the oncosimulator, one of the key notions and constructs of the discipline are traced back to antiquity.

We show that four of the five Platonic solids’ surfaces may be cut open with a Hamiltonian path along edges and unfolded to a polygonal net each of which can “zipper-refold” to a flat doubly covered parallelogram, forming a rather compact representation of the surface. Thus these regular polyhedra have particular flat “zipper pairs.” No such zipper pair exists for a dodecahedron, whose Hamilton...

A mechanically based structural optimization method is utilized to explore the phenomena of jamming for assemblies of frictionless Platonic solids. Systems of these regular convex polyhedra exhibit mechanically stable phases with density substantially less than optimal for a given shape, revealing that thermal motion is necessary to access high-density phases. We confirm that the large system j...

The friends with benefits relationship (FWBR) is a complex, opposite-sex friendship in which partners freely engage in sexual activity within the relationship, but do not interact as romantic partners, but rather as platonic friends. And while framed as apparently beneficial, the current study attempted to determine if, in fact, any relational benefits actually exist within the FWBR as compared...

The Cosmic Microwave Background CMB originates from an early stage in the history of the universe. Observed low multipole contributions of CMB fluctuations have motivated the search for selection rules from the underlying topology of 3-space. Everitt (2004) has generated all homotopies for Platonic spherical 3-manifolds by face gluings. We transform the glue generators into isomorphic deck tran...