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The Trope of Silence in the Work of Herta Müller
P Shopin
Aug 09, 2017
With reference to Herta Müller’s fiction and non-fiction, my essay explores how the trope of silence is engaged to make sense of more abstract concepts. Drawing on conceptual metaphor theory, I argue that Müller uses silence as...
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Language as a force for good in the work of Herta Müller
P Shopin
Oct 02, 2017
Herta Müller creates sophisticated metaphors to convey her vision of language and its relationship to suffering and subjugation. With reference to both her fiction and non‐fiction, this essay explores how she uses the idea of...
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The scholar as craftsman
Seb Falk
Sep 05, 2018
The Royal Society Conversaziones were biannual social evenings at which distinguished guests could learn about the latest scientific developments. The Conversazione in May 1952 featured an object that came to be called King...
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‘El Capri Kylex’
S Falk
Aug 12, 2021
This article examines the role of memory techniques in medieval astronomy. Using a mnemonic written by a Franciscan friar c. 1330 as a case study, it shows how astronomers and astrologers simplified the sky for...
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Rabies Elimination
Rabies is a vaccine-preventable fatal viral disease that is zoonotic in nature. In this article, we provide a justification why the agreement of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...
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Collagen-Inspired Self-Assembly of Twisted Filaments.
Collagen consists of three peptides twisted together through a periodic array of hydrogen bonds. Here we use this as inspiration to find design rules for programmed specific interactions for self-assembling synthetic...
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Small-Molecule Activation of YAP for Inner-Ear Regeneration and Beyond
Nathaniel Kastan
Jan 01, 0001
Hippo signaling is an evolutionarily conserved pathway that restricts organ growth during development and suppresses regeneration in mature organs. Using a highthroughput phenotypic screen, we have identified a potent...
Published by: Rockefeller University
Modelling Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in a dish reveals common cell type-specific alterations.
This scientific commentary refers to ‘Induced pluripotent stem cell-derived motor neurons of CMT type 2 patients reveal progressive mitochondrial dysfunction’, by Van Lent et al. (doi:10.1093/brain/awab226).
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Small Molecule Activation of Yap for Inner-Ear Regeneration and Beyond
Nathaniel Kastan
Jan 01, 0001
Hippo signaling is an evolutionarily conserved pathway that restricts organ growth during development and suppresses regeneration in mature organs. Using a highthroughput phenotypic screen, we have identified a potent...
Published by: Rockefeller University
Gedanken über die Religion: Der “stille” Krieg zwischen Schelling und Schleiermacher (1799–1807), by Ryan Scheerlinck, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
The title of Scheerlinck’s study on the relationship between two of the most important thinkers of Romanticism, the philosopher F.W.J. Schelling and the theologian F.D.E. Schleiermacher, undoubtedly alludes to the latter’s main...

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