We all have our heroes. For myself and, I suspect, many ecologists and evolutionary biologists, Charles Darwin is very high up in the pantheon of truly admirable thinkers and human beings. Few other 19th-century scientists produced books that bear close reading and even re-reading today—yet On the Origin of Species and Darwin’s other volumes certainly do. In honor of this Year of Darwin, and to...

n engl j med 371;4 nejm.org july 24, 2014 369 care community in an ongoing national debate about our health care system, the likes of which had never occurred before. He continued writing about the health care system right up to the end of his life. Just months before he died, he wrote a compelling article for the New York Review of Books, entitled “On Breaking One’s Neck,” in which he reported...

The last one hundred years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the power and reach of total synthesis. The pantheon of accomplishments in the field includes the total synthesis of molecules of unimaginable beauty and diversity such as the four discussed in this article: endiandric acids (1982), calicheamicin gamma(1)(I) (1992), Taxol (1994), and brevetoxin B (1995). Chosen from the collection...

Title: BEYOND RACIAL STEREOTYPES: SUBVERSIVE SUBTEXTS IN CABIN IN THE SKY Kate Marie Weber, M.A., 2008 Directed by: Dr. Richard King, Associate Professor of Musicology The 1943 film Cabin in the Sky holds an important place in cinematic history as one of the first “all-Negro” pictures produced by a major Hollywood studio. The movie musical reflects a transitional period in American racial polit...

The possibility of a non-gravitational interaction between the dark matter and energy has been reconstructed using some recent datasets. crucial aspect is that not parametrized at outset, but rather directly from data in non-parametric way. Cosmic Chronometer Hubble data, Pantheon Supernova compilation CANDELS CLASH Multy-Cycle Treasury programs obtained by HST, Baryon Acoustic Oscillation have...

In his most recent series of paintings titled Kiʻi Kupuna: ʻO ʻAilāʻau (Ancestral Images: Forest Eater), Native Hawaiian artist Carl Franklin Kaʻailāʻau Pao reflects on the volcano deity ʻAilāʻau, who predates more popularly known goddess Pele in pantheon. Over last century, ʻAilāʻau’s story has largely fallen into obscurity. However, eruption Kīlauea Hawaiʻi Island 2018 heralded what many kūpu...

This article discusses the pantheon in temple of female spirits (Miếu Ngũ Hnh) located city Vung Tau southern Vietnam according to my fieldworks during 2018. The are more various than traditional forms worship north Vietnam. inhabitants some deities borrowed from neighbors: Cham and Khmer goddesses, embodying five elements Chinese religious system (wu xing). A feature is divine service, althoug...

The increasing tension between the different local direct measurements of Hubble expansion rate and that inferred from Cosmic Microwave Background observation by $\Lambda$-Cold-Dark-Matter model could be a smoking gun new physics, if not caused either observational systematics or bias. We generalize previous investigation on bias void globally fitting Pantheon sample over all parameters in radi...

In this work we consider a scenario where the dark energy is dynamical fluid whose density can be transferred to matter via coupling function proportional of energy. particular, investigate model’s ability address S8 tension and find that against data from Planck, BAO Pantheon model (1) significantly reduce significance tension, (2) does so without exacerbating nor introducing any other (such a...

In this letter we propose a reduction of the $H_0$ tension puzzle by means theory minimally modified gravity which is dubbed VCDM. After confronting with experiments, find that data allow for low-redshift transition in expansion history universe at either $z\simeq 0.3 $ or $z \simeq 1.8\,$, corresponding to one two local minima total $\chi^2$. From bestfit values fitness parameter improved $\De...