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Microbe cheerleader
Richard Roberts shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Sharp for their discoveries of split genes, which contain parts that encode protein, called exons, and gaps between them, called introns. Now chief scientific officer at New England Biolabs based in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Roberts talks to Gijsbert Werner about microbes, genetically modified food and the problem with Nobel prizes.
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From Zerfass to Osmer and the Missing Black African Voice in Search of a Relevant Practical Theology Approach in Contemporary Decolonisation Conversations in South Africa: An Emic Reflection from North-West University (NWU)
Rolf Zerfass’s operational scientific model for correcting Christian-ecclesiological praxis has been utilised in practical theological research for a considerable time at the North-West University. However, this situation changed with the adoption of Richard Osmer’s four practical theology tasks of descriptive, interpretive, normative, and pragmatic as the guiding practical theology approach. The question is this: to what extent does the Osmer approach and its application in research at NWU address African contextual issues? To progress beyond being ‘reactive’ and ‘pushing back’ on Western practical theology approaches, the NWU practical theology approach is evaluated, followed by proposing an approach that attempts to incorporate African contextual realities anchoring by the principles of ‘listening, observing, weaving, and offering’.
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The Women Who Discovered RNA Splicing
In 1997, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) celebrated the 20th anniversary of the discovery of RNA splicing. The coauthor of the CSHL paper announcing the discovery, Louise Chow, was not invited, even though first authorship usually implies a central role in the work. Richard J. Roberts, who was one of Chow's coauthors, and Philip A. Sharp from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team that had published a parallel paper, were the centers of attention, as if they alone had made the discovery. Apparently, as the sole winners of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded for the research, Roberts and Sharp made more desirable guests than those who had been excluded from this most coveted scientific award. A similar affront occurred in 2017 when CSHL celebrated the 40th anniversary of the discovery. The events made it clear that leading scientists remained interested in maintaining the status quo, rather than seizing the opportunity to reassess the relationship between the present and the past. The lack of recognition for women who played a key role in high-profile discoveries is evident in the paucity of women among Nobel Laureates or recipients of other prestigious prizes in science.
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DTE Energy Company
DTE Energy is a diversified energy company involved in the development and management of energy-related businesses and services nationwide. DTE Electric distributes electricity to some 2.3 million customers in southeastern Michigan. The company's DTE Gas unit distributes natural gas to 1.3 million customers throughout Michigan. DTE Energy runs DTE Vantage (formerly power & industrial operations), and energy trading. The company was founded by Lemuel Davis, a gas engineer from Philadelphia that took on the challenge of organizing a company and securing local financing in 1849.
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Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama
A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and released without trial, Holcroft was notorious in his own time, but today appears mainly as a supporting character in studies of 1790s literary activism. Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama authoritatively reintroduces and reestablishes this central figure of the revolutionary decade by examining his life, plays, memoirs, and personal correspondence. In engaging with theatrical censorship, apostacy, and the response of audiences and critics to radical drama, this thoughtful study also demonstrates how theater functions in times of political repression. Despite his struggles, Holcroft also had major successes: this book examines his surprisingly robust afterlife, as his plays, especially The Road to Ruin , were repeatedly revived worldwide in the nineteenth century.
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Man jailed for sex abuse of girls in Vic
A Victorian man who sexually abused two girls in the Yarra Ranges has been jailed for at least six years.
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The Role of Darwinism in Nazi Racial Thought
Historians disagree about whether Nazis embraced Darwinian evolution. By examining Hitler's ideology, the official biology curriculum, the writings of Nazi anthropologists, and Nazi periodicals, we find that Nazi racial theorists did indeed embrace human and racial evolution. They not only taught that humans had evolved from primates, but they believed the Aryan or Nordic race had evolved to a higher level than other races because of the harsh climatic conditions that influenced natural selection. They also claimed that Darwinism underpinned specific elements of Nazi racial ideology, including racial inequality, the necessity of the racial struggle for existence, and collectivism.
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Democracia y sorteo de cargos
Se contrastan las virtudes democráticas de las elecciones populares con las del sorteo de cargos, y se argumenta que las elecciones populares (aunque también los referéndums activados por la ciudadanía) exhiben mejores credenciales morales para arrogarse la legitimidad y autoridad final en un sistema político. Se rescata el carácter complementario del sorteo de cargos y se argumenta a favor de la “polifuncionalidad” pragmática del mismo dependiendo del contexto. Se describen algunas propuestas de mecanismos mixtos que combinan las elecciones con el sorteo de cargos y se discute su utilidad para algunos contextos específicos. Finalmente, se propone un nuevo sistema de democracia directa –activado por la ciudadanía- que hace un uso inteligente de las asambleas de sorteados. Se argumenta que bajo este último formato las asambleas de sorteados están capacitadas para fijar un nuevo horizonte de legitimidad democrática.
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