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Chancey of the Maury River
After being abandoned, Chancey, an albino Appaloosa horse, finds a new home with Claire who needs him as much as he needs her, but as his eyesight deteriorates, he and Claire start anew as a therapeutic team.
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What blindness can tell us about seeing again: merging neuroplasticity and neuroprostheses
Significant progress has been made in the development of visual neuroprostheses to restore vision in blind individuals. Appropriate delivery of electrical stimulation to intact visual structures can evoke patterned sensations of light in those who have been blind for many years. However, success in developing functional visual prostheses requires an understanding of how to communicate effectively with the visually deprived brain in order to merge what is perceived visually with what is generated electrically.
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Arboreal Beings: Reading to Redress Plant Blindness
To put this in plain terms, as geobiologist Hope Jahren does in her engaging memoir Lab Girl: A Story of Trees, Science and Love, 'since 1990 we have created more than eight billion new [tree] stumps. A 2016 study on plant blindness indicates that not only do biological factors make it difficult for humans to 'detect, recall and appreciate plants' but that cultural processes can also play a role, for 'language and practices affect the ways people develop and organise knowledge of their environments, as well as, as well as the world views and values they express in relation to other species' (Balding and Williams 1195). Plants were ranked above inanimate beings at the lowest end of the scale, and were followed by animals, humans, angels and God (Gangliano, Ryan and Vieira ix), a ladder from which, writes philosopher Michael Marder, 'both the everyday and the scientific ways of thinking have not yet completely emancipated themselves' (3). With this in mind, this essay explores the ways in which three texts-John Wyndham's science fiction novel The Day of the Triffids (1951), Peter Wohleben's work of popular science, The Hidden Life of Trees (2015) and Ellen van Neerven's story 'Water' from her collection Heat and Light (2014)-advise readers on plants and plant science.
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Aestheticizing Animal Cruelty
Animal-standpoint criticism is a new vein in literary criticism that questions ideologically-driven representations of animals, their aesthetic exploitation, their absence or silence in literary texts, and the obliviousness of earlier critics to these issues. This article briefly summarizes the main tenets of animal-standpoint criticism to date. Its main focus is then on the question of aesthetic exploitation of animal cruelty, in particular on the pervasive use in contemporary American fiction of the animal proxy, an animal figure whose suffering is largely for aesthetic effect.
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The Wisconsin State Journal Doug Moe column
The vault in question holds more than 20,000 films and television episodes, including movie classics like \"Citizen Kane\" and \"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\" and is part of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, a collaboration between the historical society and the UW-Madison Communication Arts Department.
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And Then There Was Nothing
The term palingenesis, also known as recapitulation theory or embryological parallelism, refers to that phase in the development of an individual plant or animal which theoretically repeats the evolutionary history of the taxonomic group to which it belongs. Sometimes expressed as Haeckl’s law that ontogeny (the growth or size change and the development or shape change of an individual organism) recapitulates phylogeny (the evolutionary history of a species), this theory has been extensively refuted by science but remains attractive to writers of science fiction, who have variously drawn on the idea that the development of advanced species passed through stages
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The Record, Stockton, Calif., Michael Fitzgerald column
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein last week ordered the city and its creditors to negotiate a reduced-repayment deal, or Plan of Adjustment. Commenting on the city's proposed plan, which would leave city employee pensions uncut -- and on Wall Street's shrill objections --
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First Coast Happenings
JCC $10,000 Shootout and Golf Tournament to benefit the Jacksonville Children's Chorus, registration 10:30 a.m., shotgun start 12:30 p.m., Magnolia Point Golf and Country Club. [...]on Third Street, 6 p.m., Amelia Island Museum of History, 233 S. Third St., Fernandina Beach.
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