This study is part of a larger project with the general aim developing ability preschool teachers to reflect critically on questions, topics and theories related different understandings death(s). The article based three focus-group interviews focus how what, how, why when they teach about death death-related issues. results show that consider it important in early childhood education because f...

Sigmund Freud’s reflections on transience left him surprised that someone could revolt against the process of mourning. In Jonathan Lear’s interpretation transience, is not simply a passing struggle mind, but response to difficulty reality, is, an existential struggle. Central experience according Lear, disbelief in existence afterlife. How might we understand idea afterlife philosophically? I ...

Anthropological writing becomes ritual when its unfolding argument structure parallels and thus its voice resonates with lament or even prayer. Structural features of lament are apparent in some ethnographies of lament, and anthropologists with no interest in traditional lament have nonetheless joined ineffectual modern elegies over modernity’s destructiveness. Magical laments achieve their eff...

SUMMARY (1) Recent evidence indicates tight control of plant resource economics over interspecific trait variation among species, both within and across organs. Here we demonstrate that this 'Plant economics spectrum' has important afterlife effects on carbon turnover by driving coordinated decomposition rates of different organs across species. (2) To that end, we conducted a common-garden dec...

The Juggler is a performance that aims to investigate the relationship between the theatre and the ICT. The aim is to realize a real and at the same time imaginary place where actors can interact with imaginary characters, objects or situation. The plot of the performance is simple: the Juggler will meet two characters: Trick and the Shaman. These two characters will guide the Juggler inside a ...

The present article examines how people's belief in an afterlife, as well as closely related supernatural beliefs, may open an empirical backdoor to our understanding of the evolution of human social cognition. Recent findings and logic from the cognitive sciences contribute to a novel theory of existential psychology, one that is grounded in the tenets of Darwinian natural selection. Many of t...

This paper contributes to the analysis of the design of regional development programs. This is a case study the birth, life, death and afterlife of a stately development program in Norway, supporting diffusion of innovations by promoting e-business in SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises). The study shows that joint projects like regional development programs have to be designed such that t...

The sequence of massive star supernova types IIP (plateau light curve), IIL (linear light curve), IIb, IIn (narrow line), Ib, and Ic roughly represents a sequence of increasing mass loss during the stellar evolution. The mass loss affects the velocity distribution of the ejecta composition; in particular, only the IIP’s typically end up with H moving at low velocity. Radio and Xray observations...

Scholars have debated the manner in which religious beliefs influence economic organization. This paper examines a particular case–the craft guilds of medieval England–to show how religious doctrines influence the ability of a group to enforce cooperation. When mortality rates are high, repeated interaction alone cannot sustain cooperation, but spiritual sanctions in the afterlife can sustain c...