The second half of Ethics, Part 5, presents Spinoza’s theory of the participation of human minds in the eternal. Although this theory constitutes the culmination of the Ethics, it has often proven opaque to even its most attentive and penetrating readers. Edwin Curley has written candidly, “In spite of many years of study, I still do not feel that I understand this part of the Ethics at all ade...

2 Robot Design 3 2.1 Mechanical Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Localisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3 Rubbish detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.4 Classification of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.5 The main control cycle . ....

(English) As the opening statement in a curated dialogue on Language and Waste, this paper considers what sociolinguistics of waste might look like. In first two parts, I provide some general rationale academic context for starting to notice waste. By avoiding dirty places raw lives waste, sociolinguists obscure important relations: first, social worlds people who live work with/in waste; secon...

Rare Late Pleistocene porcupine remains of Hystrix (Atherurus) brachyura Linnaeus 1758 are described from the Fuchsluken Cave, a small gypsum karst cavity at the Rote Berg on the Giebelstein near Saalfeld (Thuringia, Central Germany). The cave was used during the Eemian and mainly Early Weichselian (around 120.000-75.000 BP) by spotted hyena clans of Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss 1823), whi...

The pronouncements of the ENCODE Project Consortium regarding "junk DNA" exposed the need for an evolutionary classification of genomic elements according to their selected-effect function. In the classification scheme presented here, we divide the genome into "functional DNA," that is, DNA sequences that have a selected-effect function, and "rubbish DNA," that is, sequences that do not. Functi...

the form and morphology criteria are among  effective components in enhancement and improvement of urban environments and one of the features of successful urban spaces, is the way these criteria are arranged alongside each other especially at the visual landscape of an entrance space, because entrance of every place is the first and most important communication ring between the person and the ...

When are tabloid newspapers going to tire of the 'naughty nurse' fantasy (news December 6)? The Sun has produced yet another stereotypical pile of rubbish, this time publicising a 100% Real Nurses calendar.