102 research outputs found
Chaotic temperature dependence at zero temperature
We present a class of examples of nearest-neighbour, boubded-spin models, in
which the low-temperature Gibbs measures do not converge as the temperature is
lowered to zero, in any dimension
The grinch who stole wisdom
Dr. Seuss is wise. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Seuss, 1957) could serve as a parable for our time. It can also be seen as a roadmap for the development of contemplative wisdom. The abiding popularity of How the Grinch Stole Christmas additionally suggests that contemplative wisdom is more readily available to ordinary people, even children, than is normally thought. This matters because from the point of view of contemplatives in any of the world's philosophies or religions, people are confused about wisdom. The content of the nascent field of wisdom studies, they might say, is largely not wisdom at all but rather what it's like to live in a particular kind of prison cell, a well appointed cell perhaps, but not a place that makes possible either personal satisfaction or deep problem solving. I believe that what the contemplative traditions have to say is important; they offer a different orientation to what personal wisdom is, how to develop it, and how to use it in the world than is presently contained in either our popular culture or our sciences. In order to illustrate this I will examine, in some detail, one contemplative path within Buddhism. Buddhism is particularly useful in this respect because its practices are nontheistic and thus avoid many of the cultural landmines associated with the contemplative aspects of Western religions
Osteoblastic lesion screening with an advanced post-processing package enabling in-plane rib reading in CT-images
Intermittent existence of a southern Californian upwelling cell during submillennial climate change of the last 60 kyr
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/95021/1/palo1108.pd
Problems of video-based pain detection in patients with dementia: a road map to an interdisciplinary solution
Differential measurement and model calculations of cosmic ray latitudinal gradient with respect to the heliospheric current sheet
The distance to the solar wind termination shock in 1993 and 1994 from observations of anomalous cosmic rays
Earliest Jurassic Patellogastropod, Vetigastropod, and Neritimorph Gastropods from Luxembourg with Considerations on the Triassic—Jurassic Faunal Turnover
One-Step Electrodeposition of Self-Assembled Colloidal Particles: A Novel Strategy for Biomedical Coating
The (Re)Source of Creativity: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Dr. Seuss’s You’re Only Old Once!
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