Quantifying the Pinatubo volcanic signal in south polar snow

2024

This preliminary report presents the findings from a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey conducted at Jebel Barkal, Sudan, from January 9 to 21, 2023. The survey aimed to investigate potential urban structures associated with the ancient settlement of Napata. Conducted by Eastern Atlas GmbH & Co. KG in the frame of the Jebel Barkal Archaeological Project of the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, the survey covered areas near the Amun temple B500 and other significant areas in front of the Jebel Barkal. The survey identified numerous subsurface features, including potential building remains, plantation pits, and evidence of both sacred and residential structures. Key findings include: - large structures and grave pits suggesting extensive urban and possibly pre-Islamic burial activities, - possible plantation pits indicative of a temple garden and larger structural remains probably related to the Amun temple B500, - parts of palace B1200 and other significant structures, potentially including remains of a coronation temple, - improved resolution of previously identified temples in front of temple B500 and potential new structures, highlighting the area as a processional Avenue. The GPR survey utilized two systems: the Pulse EKKO with 250-MHz antennas for the larger areas and the SIR-3000 system with a 400-MHz antenna for a sand dune-covered area. The report concludes with recommendations for further GPR prospection to fully map the urban layout of Napata, emphasizing the method's non-invasive nature and its ability to complement traditional excavation techniques.

Revue de l'art/˜La œRevue de l'art, 2005

Haack opens her paper on “future directions” in scientific testimony with a quotation from Aristotle and an observation from a hundred-year old U.S. Supreme Court ruling! Her reason? Her argument will be that the hankering for exactness where no exactness is possible that Holmes identified as “a source of fallacy throughout the law” still impedes us; and, specifically, that it gets in the way of a clear understanding of the proper role of probabilistic and statistical evidence—such as testimony of random-match DNA probabilities in criminal cases, or epidemiological testimony of increased risk in toxic-tort cases—in legal proof of questions of fact. As a result, the law sometimes asks more of statistics than statistics can give, and sometimes gets less from statistics than statistics could give.

Kairos 2022 Ce livre est remarquable à plus d’un titre. Écrit par une biologiste étudiant et enseignant la médecine traditionnelle chinoise, il reconnaît la pertinence des approches médicales non conventionnelles et, plus particulièrement, les bienfaits de la méditation. Si l’apport de ces disciplines est indéniable, il faut toutefois reconnaître que leur occidentalisation et, surtout, leur asservissement par l’idéologie néolibérale, pose question, voire constitue un sérieux problème éthique et déontologique. Armé d’une connaissance de l’histoire du bouddhisme tibétain, il nous offre également un panorama de ses enjeux géopolitiques. Lorsqu’on contemple la nébuleuse bouddhiste du point de vue de son dogmatisme et de son prosélytisme, on obtient une vision très embarrassante de sa compromission politique et économique. Est-il bien raisonnable de frayer avec — et d’être stipendié par — des institutions telles que la CIA et le Forum économique mondial de Davos ? Très au fait de l’impact socio-politique du mouvement de la pleine conscience (« mindfulness »), l’ouvrage contraste du reste l’efficacité de la « pleine conscience » à l’aide de son pragmatisme minimaliste et de son cynisme néolibéral. En fin de compte, ce mouvement, qui se prétend laïque et (transhumaniste, ne fait que rendre localement et temporairement supportable les visées biocidaires du capitalisme mondialisé. Cette critique de toutes les facettes du « développement personnel » et de l’« industrie du bonheur » est doublement la bienvenue. D’une part, il est important de bien comprendre que la détresse humaine dont se nourrit le néolibéralisme est rendue acceptable par toute une série de pratiques ad hoc vendues à ceux qui peuvent se l’offrir. D’autre part, le cynisme et l’opportunisme institutionnels ne sont pas le seul fait des monothéismes. Il est toutefois dommage que l’argument n’ait pas été plus homogène et moins répétitif. Surtout, il faudrait repenser le statut de la spiritualité dans un cadre qui se veut, ou se prétend, matérialiste. Élisabeth Martens, La Méditation de pleine conscience. L’envers du décor, Investig’Action, 2020.

2021

The Philippines: A Past revisited was a book written by a Philippine historian named Renato Constantino. The book tackles the oppression of the Filipinos from being colonized by the Spaniards in the early years dating way back to 1565 and after the Spaniards lost to the Americans, the Americans take over the Philippines and the struggle of being a Filipino because of the different stereotypes that was told by the Spaniards and Americans about Filipinos. This book serves to reeducate the people about the misleading information that the other historians are telling and to serve as being unbiased to everything that happens in the past. The book serves a deflection of biased ideologies of the Filipinos that is based of colonial ideas. It allows Filipinos to reexamine the past historical facts of the Philippine history that most of it was being written by its colonizers. Renato Constantino wants to reeducate us about the misconceptions that the other historians have told the people from way back because it was kind of biased in their part and that is what Renato Constantino wants to change. He wants us to look at a new perspective of what truly happened on those times. He wants to re write the Philippine history with more accurate and unbiased information and to debunk those biased Spanish-American colonial teachings that were taught to Filipino scholars. He wants to correct the wrong concepts and information that has been imprinted on every history book and, he wants to show to the Filipinos what is really our identity. Rewriting the Philippine history in the perspective of the Filipino was a huge step of enlightening the people and uncovering the truth about the things that happened during the colonial period. We were once under the oppression of the Spaniards and the Americans which both viewed the Philippine history with their own thoughts and biased teachings. And those misconceptions lead to the Filipino historians the need to rewrite the Philippine history with a more accurate facts and without that biased misleading information about the Filipinos. Upon learning the truth, they unraveled the truth and highlighted the abuse of the Spaniards. In the first chapter of the book, it discusses how Filipino historians are being captive of the Spanish and American historiography. They are forced to view the history with the Spanish and American perspective. And through it, comes to a point where Filipino historians feels the need to change the Philippine history and should be seen in a Filipino perspective. And by doing so, a very important thing has change to the course of our history. Something has changed and feels like something is finally right.

In Alain de Mijolla, ed., International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, 2005

Biographical article on Jean Piaget