In the game of End-Nim two players take turns in removing one or more boxes from a string of non-empty stacks. At each move boxes may only be taken from the two stacks which form the ends of the string (unless only one stack remains!). We give a solution for both impartial and partizan versions of the game and explain the significance of the mystic hieroglyphs:

We are grateful to Christer Blomqvist for his helpful comments on earlier versions of this manuscript. Thanks also to several anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and suggestions. This paper represents contribution #101 of the Dolphin Communication Project. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Justin D. Gregg, Dolphin Communication Project, P.O. Box 711, Old Mystic,...

We present four patients with first episode psychosis who were also negative to other clinical evaluations including thyroid functioning. Their psychotic symptoms were suspected to be induced by the arachnoid cyst and it was controlled by moderate dose antipsychotic administration. The diagnoses of these cases were atypical affective disorder, schizophrenia (paranoid type), delusional disorder ...

This article deals with the textual dialogue between Adonis (born 1930) and al-Niffarī (died in 965 AD) poem, “The Transformations of Lover,” from Adonis’s poetry collection The book Migration Day Night Regions (1965) reveals Adonis’ melting mystic text his own text. First, this discusses Adonis's discovery al-Niffarī- unknown Şūfī who lived margins religious institution time. Then, it e...

The physician is still the wonder-worker, the soothsayer, to whose reading of the entrails we resort when hard beset. We may scoff at him in health, but we send for him in pain. The judge, if you fall into his clutches, is still the Themis of the Greeks, announcing mystic dooms. You may not understand his words, but their effects you can be made to feel. Each of us is thus a man of mystery to t...