Our understanding of space and time is probed to its depths by black holes. These objects, which appear as a natural consequence of general relativity, provide a powerful analytical tool able to examine macroscopic and microscopic properties of the universe. This introductory article presents in a pictorial way the basic concepts of black hole’s theory, as well as a description of the astronomi...

mac intyre believes that the history of the western culture and thought is analyzable in two different lines, so that the modern intellect is a free and liberated and thus wandering intellect that has not found its way to a strengthened and dignified thinking, and the pre-modern intellect is a theological one intertwined with excellence and committed to tradition. the pre-modern rational though...

Maturana and Varela developed the concept of autopoiesis to explain the phenomena of living organisms. They went further and postulated theories concerning the ner­ vous system and the development of cognition. These theories have radical conclu­ sions concerning human thought, language, and social activity . This paper aims to introduce these ideas and to explore the main implications. It also...

All living beings share eco-biopsychosocial systems. Good health of any single element the system is dependentuponwell-beingof allthe elementstogether.The primary source ourfood isfrom plants. A healthy plant not conceivable without a soil in which itsrootsystem grows. Soil contains multifarious microorganisms, fungal networks, nematodes and arthropods etc. These all act concert to contribute r...

Following a high profile murder in 1996, the government in England moved to involuntarily contain individuals, almost all men, who were thought to be at risk of violence and to have a personality disorder. In 2008 the Dangerous Severe Personality Disorder program of assessment, commitment and treatment for this newly defined legal category of persons went into effect. The program was initially ...

At a time when the memory of Herbert Marcuse is fresh in the minds of many on the left, it is perhaps particularly fitting to focus our attention on the special place held in Marcuse's thought by the concept of memory. Many of his earlier commentators have, in fact, already noted its importance.' One of the more astute of their number, Fredric Jameson, even went so far as to claim that the theo...