Callon and Hilgartner, respectively, have argued that the economy and technoscience are performed and that neoclassical economics (NE) and scientific reports should be interpreted as performances. Building on that theme, it is argued here that the ongoing transformations collectively known as globalization signal a new way of thinking about and performing both economics and technoscience: Suppl...

Myth 1: Tobacco is only an issue for affluent people and affluent countries. Fact: Within individual countries, tobacco consumption and tobacco-related disease burdens are generally greatest among the poor. Smoking is declining among males in most high-income countries. In contrast, it is increasing in males in most lowand middle-income countries and in women worldwide. In China and Russia, smo...

The news in the numbers is often difficult to discern. It is not helped by the desire of the administration and its critics to put a particular spin on the success or failure of various policies. In a previous column we commented on the early claims of success for the stimulus package. Those claims have since been muted by the actual performance of the economy, and we hear relatively less about...

Seymour Papert has recently called for a "revaluation of the concrete": a revolution in education and cognitive science that will overthrow logic from "on top and put it on tap." Turkle and Papert (1991) situate the concrete thinking paradigm in a new "epistemological pluralism" an acceptance and valuation of multiple thinking styles, as opposed to their stratification into heirarchically value...

searching the reasons for the superiority of one text over another with the same theme and the same subject has long been a vital question up on the minds of literary critics. dealing with these types of texts, this critical question has always been outstanding in the mind of serious literary critics that why the narration of one author is more cohesive than the other's. so analyzing the s...

The present paper deals with the ghost in house 124, Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved. Beloved is sometimes mislabeled as a story by critics. This article, on other hand, about Sethe’s daughter’s ‘Personified Spirit’. not story, this article demonstrates. In African-American literature, it also discovered spiritual and oral legacy.

in this paper, at first we reviewed the topics of literary modern criticism and psychological criticism and relationship between psychology and literature, paving the ground for the entry in the main topic. then we critique the modernist novel «when we left the bridge» by abdul rahman munif through archetypes put forward by psychologists and critics. in this paper criticism of the novel mention...

Research in neuroscience and epigenetics is prominent in biomedicine and beyond. Some policy makers, health professionals and other citizens have intuited particular implications from these 'social biologies', leveraging them to support policies that many find problematic (e.g., around the early years). This enjoins scholarly attention to the uses to which science is put, but also to how and wh...