In this paper I would like to address the problem of the aesthetic value of damaged nature. A variety of arguments have been offered in order to ground the view that we cannot perceive damaged nature as beautiful, at least as soon as we are aware of its damaged condition. These arguments are usually offered in tandem with a view about what the correct appreciation of nature involves and, hence,...

Goldilocks, in the course of her serial porridge-tasting, had a pretty precise concept of which porridge was going to be acceptable to her palate. The criteria were her own, based on her own experience, and which may or may not be straightforwardly communicated and easily comparable to the tastes and needs of other porridge afficionados. Moving to the less fairytale-like world of science, RNA q...

Dental amalgam has been maligned as a filling material, both because of its clinical properties and its alleged effects on systemic health, but reports of its demise have been premature. As of 2008, 57 percent of dentists were placing amalgam (March 2008 Dental Products Report Survey). A large 2011 survey showed that dentists in the United States place more dental amalgam than composite for fir...

INTRODUCTION Many guidelines, norms, and ideal ratios and angles for attractive faces have been proposed in the literature. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that facial attractiveness in adolescents is related to ideal angles and ratios, as indicated in the literature. METHODS Seventy-six laypeople viewed sets of photographs of 64 adolescents and rated them on a visual analog ...

The two previous lectures from the cycle “Musical Intonation” were devoted to concept of musical intonation, its sound contours, semantics, genre-related and stylistic traits. third final lecture suggests concentrating our attention on sides intonation – aesthetic particularities dramaturgical features, as well existence in historical-culturological context. aesthetical side is disclosed by mea...

This article explores the poet’s tension between his fear of environmental obliteration and a hope for spiritual regeneration in Walt Whitman’s poems Compost. To do so, it applies ecocritical perspective which studies about relationship man with biotic a-biotic world literary text. Whitman, poems, unfolds reverence to natural world. He celebrates beauty everyday life nature. In these he glorifi...

cytoplasm, and serves as an adaptor to couple the ribo-1980, the year that Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and Eric some to the membrane-associated translocation ma-Wieschaus embarked on their Nobel Prize–winning chinery in the rough ER. screen for embryonic lethal mutants in Drosophila, in The truly amazing aspect of all this is that a quarter some ways marked the end of the Age of Beautiful Theo-...