Hell, Handbaskets, and Government Lawyers: The Duty of Loyalty and Its Limits

Paulsen provides an autobiographical and a conjectural account of cases of personal and professional dilemmas of government lawyers

Enumeration of concave integer partitions

An integer partition \lambda of n corresponds, via its Ferrers diagram, to an artinian monomial ideal I of colength n in the polynomial ring on two variables. If the partition \lambda corresponds to an integrally closed ideal we call \lambda concave. We study generating functions for the number of concave partitions, unrestricted or with at most r parts.Comment: 8 pages. ver 2: Added reference to asymptotic estimate by Gert Almkvist. ver 3: Minor editing. ver 4: Added reference to Canfield et al, rewrote section 3 ver 5: Added reference to Andrew

RESTORING PROFITABILITY TO AGRICULTURE

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This essay proposes that we, as human beings, especially in the West and in the Holocene epoch, have developed a life-negating understanding of ourselves and the world. This is uncovered in the Anthropocene, through what is called ‘the Anthropocene crack’: a painful eco-wound revealing how we forgot that we are living beings in a living water-world, coexisting with other living water-beings. Yet the Anthropocene crack is also a gateway to a new Anthropocene world understanding that acknowledges our oceanic and tethysian being-in-the world, which is an ecological understanding of life, living beings and the world in which water is seen as the arche (ἀρχή) of everything in this world