On the art of Asking Questions. In this paper by McClimans, L. M. 2011. The art of asking questions. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 19(4), 521-538.", the author discusses "how we should distinguish legitimate from illegitimate questions". He argues that "questioning is more of an art than a science and that this art is part of the art of conversation in general". A remarkable finding of this research is to show that even "we can distinguish legitimate from illegitimate questions... we can only do so by first asking them"

The paper is available on: https://www.academia.edu/download/39606141/Art_of_Asking_Questions.pdf

The main difference between art and science,dear Jamel Chahed , is imo that science is by its origin and nature hierachical, i.e. you have to absorb the known facts to advance the state of art. In the arts, you can advance the state of the arts, without absorbing all existing styles.

The arts are definitely elder, with respect to the evolution of humanity, while science is much younger, most probably starting with the calculation of goods and stellar movements, I do guess in Sumer.

Science, which is alienated from nature and the arts, is a bad evolutionary direction for humanity, i.e. Sorcerer's Apprentices.

When Linnaeus coined the name homo sapiens in 1758 he assigned our species intelligence and discernment, sharing the trust of the Enlightenment in our rational capacities. For the following two centuries and a half Western civilization lived in the myth of the dominion of reason, and experienced an unprecedented industrial, scientific and technological revolution, meanwhile engaging in irrational enterprises of vast proportions like destroying populations and drying out resources in the colonial adventure, igniting two world wars and the holocaust, exterminating animal species and ruining eco-systems. The myth of the infallibility of human reason is gradually waning in front of artificial intelligence, and so is the unwavering trust in clever people.

We have stirred up Nature’s hidden forces by interfering with wildlife and now we are at a loss to calm them down:To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature. Heraclitus, Fragments

Thank you Dear Stephen I. Ternyik for initiating this discussion with this excellent contribution that provides insightful thoughts totally in line with the spirit of the discussion. Very much appreciated.

In line with the previous post: "Questioning is more of an Art than a Science and that this Art is part of the Art of Conversation in general". the text above is extracted from "Oliver, E. S. 1958, The Art of Conversation, Communication Quarterly, 6(3), 3-6". A well-inspired metaphor that turns Conversation into a Human Interaction endowed with a kind of Living Soul.

To be requested on:

Article The art of conversation

On the State-of-the-Art des State-of-the-Art. The adage "Publish or Perish" is at the origin of an obvious inflation of scientific publications which results in a tendency to favor quantity over quality and detail over fundamentals. This interesting well-cited paper by Fettke, P., 2006, "State-of-the-Art des State-of-the-Art, Wirtschaftsinformatik, 48(4), 257-266." focuses on one of the most nagging problems in scientific literature that is becoming a complicated enterprise; especially since open-access prepaid revues are not without invoking a form of suspicion regarding the rigor of scientific evaluation procedures. The paper cited above arrives at some dismaying findings. It also identifies within the conclusion, several important aspects for further development: "(1) Until now no mathematical-statistical analysis has been used. (2) Research methods used in the primary papers are not taken into account by reviews. (3) No explicit objectives are discussed by about one-third of the articles in the sample. (4) The selection of literature used as a basis for the review is not explained in any article. (5) About one-half of the reviewed articles do not discuss further research questions"

Photos: The Art of Scientific Illustration. The profile of a plane or bird wing (Figure) is such that the movement of the air can be considered as the sum of a translation at the speed of the air far from the wing and a rotation in the vicinity of the profile. The resulting velocity is greater on the upper face of the profile than on its lower face (U1>U2). We therefore have P2

On the Art of Political Discourse. One may meditate on this quote by De Hilaire Belloc (English writer and Journalist, 1870-): “The whole art of the political speech is to put ‘nothing’ into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds."

https://quotefancy.com/quote/1088830/Hilaire-Belloc-The-whole-art-of-the-political-speech-is-to-put-nothing-into-it-It-is-much

Politics is the Art of the Possible. Excerpts from: the European Parliament debates (translated from French): "Brian Simpson, on behalf of the PSE Group:....Mr. Hughes is right when he says that politics is the art of the possible. And those, a minority - and I respect their point of view - who think that we should keep the old ways, keep a monopolistic sector and a reserved domain, well, if I see the merits of their argument, in real life we we're not there, it's not the world we live in.....".

Read more on:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/CRE-6-2007-07-10_FR.html?redirect

Natural Pictures: The Art of Scientific Illustration. In 1980, after 150 years of inactivity, a violent explosion occurs in May 18, 1980 which transformed the aspect of the Mount Saint Helens volcano. The material debris of gas and dust ejected in this spectacular eruption produces a beautiful turbulent jet where the eddies structures at different scales are well visualized

Source Photo:

https://www.researchgate.net/deref/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.futura-sciences.com%2Fplanete%2Fphotos%2Fvolcan-top-15-volcans-plus-dangereux-1196%2Fvolcan-mont-saint-helens-stratovolcan-americain-8683%2F

On the Art of Lying. In a remarkable old paper [1], “Odysseus and the Art of Lying”, Peter Walcot, highlighted, through the epic of Odysseus, the function of lying in ancient peasant societies: “An inferior is vulnerable and must be taught to protect himself…”.... “Teasing as much as deliberate lying trains us to be on our guard, and the Greek peasant today, like the Homeric hero of the distant past, has a much greater need to remain vigilant than does the scholar safe in his study”....

[1] Walcot, P. (1977). Odysseus and the Art of Lying. Ancient Society, 8, 1-19.

See also:

See also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_and_history_serving_political_and_ideological_totalitarianism/30

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_Conscience

The Art of Illustration: "Turbulenza" by Leonardo da Vinci is a picture that illustrates Leonardo’s understanding of how vortices move: "The smallest eddies are almost numberless, and large things are rotated only by large eddies and not by small ones, and small things are turned by small eddies and large".

Credit: Leonardo da Vinci, Studies of Turbulent Water, Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019.

The art of Scientific Illustration Using Natural manifestations. Surface tension is a physical property that represents the force necessary to increase the gas-liquid surface (energy per unit area, or force per unit length). This property is associated with intermolecular forces at the gas-liquid interface. As a result, the interface tends to occupy the smallest possible surface (lowest energy): The rounded shape of water droplets on a surface is due to surface tension (see figure). Surface tension is a main factor in capillary action: without it, there can be no vegetation on Earth.

Illustration: Droplets on the leaf of a plant. Source https://nature.desktopnexus.com/get/433809/?t=osmdnm3pmd7se8vmg7oto7gna2652d4df16ce51

The panic of Albert Camus: The Art of Expression. In the introduction to his Nobel Prize speech in 1957 at the Swedish Academy Albert Camus said: "How an almost young man, rich in his only doubts and a work still in construction site, accustomed to living in the solitude of work or in the retreats of friendship, would he not have learned with a kind of panic a judgement which brought him suddenly, alone and reduced to himself, to the center of harsh light?". (Own translation from French, Original quote: " Comment un homme presque jeune, riche de ses seuls doutes et d’une œuvre encore en chantier, habitué à vivre dans la solitude du travail ou dans les retraites de l’amitié, n’aurait-il pas appris avec une sorte de panique un arrêt qui le portait d’un coup, seul et réduit à lui-même, au centre d’une lumière crue ?"

On The Art of Scientific Illustration: the Butterfly Effect. The butterfly effect is the idea that small things can have non-linear impacts on a complex system. The concept is imagined with a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a typhoon. If we imagine that we may realize an experiment where any disturbance occurs, we may maintain laminar flow for high Reynolds numbers. Equally, if one may resolve exactly Navier Stokes equations with any disturbance, including numerical ones, the result would be that of a laminar flow. However, if this is theoretically possible and some experiments succeed in maintaining laminar flows to a certain Reynolds number, this remains extremely difficult in practical flows considering the 'butterfly effect. it is like the mechanical situation of unstable equilibrium.

Illustration source: https://www.1001freedownloads.com/free-clipart/butterfly-effect

The Sense of Art in the Myth of Prometheus. The Myth of Prometheus developed in Plato's Protagoras tells us that Prometheus understood that man without initial gifts, naked, without weapons, without any protection will have no chance of surviving in this wild world. "Prometheus begs Athena to teach him secretly, metallurgy, the arts, and agricultural techniques, and she accepts. Once there, he steals a brand of sacred fire then he offers it to men: "Here is the fire, take care of it. He will be your best protection". Zeus' anger and punishments were terrible: Pandora, the first mortal woman on Earth, is created and offered to Epimetheus (the brother of Prometheus who created man without initial gifts). Her box once opened, releases all the evils of humanity. The punishment reserved for Prometheus is crueler: "You stole the sacred fire of the Gods! ... Hephaestus, God of Fire, take Prometheus to the Caucasus Mountains and chain him to a rock! Let an eagle come and devour his liver, and let this punishment be repeated for eternity!..."

Zeus knows that man with science and technology might sin by Hubris (The Summit of sin in Old Greece). But we should believe that man can't become God.

The Art of Rhetoric in Sunset Limited. The play "Sunset Limited" by Cormac McCarthy’s adapted to the cinema by HBO (Film of the same name), is an in-depth character study of two individuals: Black (a religious Christian played by Samuel L. Jackson) and White (an outright atheist played by Tommy Lee Jones). Black has already saved White from committing suicide. In the Article by Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr. Published on 16 October 2023 "Black or White: The Art of Rhetoric in Sunset Limited, Religions 2023, 14(10), 1298". Available on: Article Black or White: The Art of Rhetoric in Sunset Limited

@Stephen I. Ternyik Purely my opinion! I think to say that, science is hierarchically above art is to certain degree debatable. Facts can be dependent or independent entities and are malleable with time. Science must apply before it can lead (anonymous) for even scientific investigations to prosper, there must employment of some artistic functions that have to do with observations (even though called scientific methods). To say that, science is hierarchical over art implies that, there is no equality among disciplines, which can disturb scholarly community. And this can raise some questions whether there is absolute interdisciplinarity or multidisciplinarity in the academia. I think art is given least treatment in terms of the function it performs right from the middle ages to the present such as in trivium and quadrivium.

Philosophy of Enlightenment and Human Progress. As Diderot writes, The Encyclopedia is an "Attempt at a Philosophical Century", bequeathed to distant posterity. It clearly testifies to what the Enlightenment was: the appetite for knowledge, the freedom to think, the taste for inventing, and the need to doubt. Criticism first of the unjust political system where Diderot wrote: “When the people die of hunger, it is never the fault of Providence, it is always that of the administration”; "We can measure the extent of wasteland in a country the progress of bad administration, depopulation and contempt for agriculture"; or even “We crowd people when we burden them with excessive taxes”. As for birth privileges, Jaucourt denounces them: "If we had the exact and true genealogy of each family, it is more than likely that no man would be esteemed or despised on the occasion of his birth". For his part, Rousseau denounces “The omnipresence of money and corruption” as well as “the bad administration of the funds of the State” or even “No man has received from nature the right to command others. […] The power that is acquired by violence is only a usurpation […]”….. “Woe to the children who will never have seen the tears of their parents flow at the story of a generous action: woe to the children who will never have seen their parents' tears flow over the misery of others….Any means that loosens the natural bonds and distances the fathers from the children, the brothers from the brothers, the sisters from the sisters, is impious…. Any means that would tend to stir men up, to arm nations, and to soak the earth with blood, is impious. It is impious to want to impose laws on conscience, the universal rule of action. It must be enlightened and not constrained”.

Regarding the notion of property Forster wrote "The true, the only authentic possession is in our heart and our mind" and Buffon expressed about the harmony of nature "the uniformity of the walk and the operations of the nature in men and in animals, then the diseases to which both are subject: the same troubles, the same derangements necessarily suppose in them the same order, the same economy".

Jaucourt denounces slavery "This purchase of Negroes, to reduce them to slavery, is a trade which violates religion, morals, natural laws, and all the rights of human nature", and which derives from "arbitrary and Inhumans of the colonies” As for the war enterprise, Jaucourt denounces it with the same firmness: “War stifles the voice of nature, of justice, of religion, and of humanity. It gives birth only to brigandage and crime; with it walks terror, famine, and desolation; it rends the souls of mothers, wives and children; it ravages the countryside, depopulates the provinces, and reduces the towns to powder"

Torchon opposed the ignoramuses of his time to support a campaign for inoculation in 1754 seen at the time as "usurpation of the rights of the Divinity", Voltaire joined this campaign, arousing a real mobilization of public opinion

Voltaire for his part denounced intolerance and superstition by writing about the religion of Geneva: "One can still say, without claiming to approve the religion of Geneva, that there are few countries where theologians and the ecclesiastics are more hostile to superstition. But as a reward, as intolerance and superstition only serve to multiply the incredulous, we complain less in Geneva than elsewhere of the progress of incredulity, which should not be surprising”

The Art of Invoking the Tragic. "A strange and seductive painting. Strange because it shows a scene of suicide, which is rare in painting, and seductive because of the use of light. The artist remains as mysterious as the subject of the work" We don't know who is this woman. The same goes for the artist! The work has long been attributed to Adam de Coster, a Flemish painter, born in Mechelen around 1586 and died in Antwerp in 1643.

Source:

https://pba.lille.fr/Collections/Chefs-d-OEuvre/Peintures-XVI-sup-e-sup-XXI-sup-e-sup-siecles/Scene-de-suicide

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Could_Suicide_be_Rational_and_Morally_Defensible

On The Art of Scientific Illustration. A breathtaking shot that depicts the Sonic Regime (Mack Number around 1) on an airfoil where a Shock Wave appears. The photo shows that the pressure jump on the Shock Wave is accompanied by evaporation. The phase change that occurs makes it possible to visualize the change of phase due to the pressure-temperature change on the choc wave.

Illustration source

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/urg7k/exact_moment_of_going_mach_1_hd/?rdt=44261

On The Art of Scientific Illustration: THE UNIVERSE ACCORDING TO DESCARTES. EACH “LARGE MASSIVE BODY” (PLANET OR STAR) IS SURROUNDED BY A WHIRLPOOL OF “ETHEREAL FLUID” RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTRACTION EXERCISED BY THE DOMINANT STAR ON SMALL OBJECTS. IN THE SAME WAY, THE SWIRLING MOVEMENT IS SUPPOSED TO EXPLAIN THE REPULSION BETWEEN THE MASSIVE STARS, WHICH THEREFORE REMAIN AT A SIGNIFICANT DISTANCE FROM EACH OTHER.

Source

https://www.futura-sciences.com/sciences/dossiers/physique-relativite-restreinte-naissance-espace-temps-509/page/4/

See also

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_Conscience/21

Paradoxes, Contradictions, and the Limits of Science "Most of the limitations discussed here are less than a century old, a very short time in the history of science. As science progresses, it will become more aware of its own boundaries and limitations. By looking at these limitations from a unified point of view, we will be able to compare, contrast, and learn about these many different phenomena. We can understand more about the very nature of science, mathematics, computers, and reason." This is the ultimate conclusion of the outing paper by Noson Yanofsky 2016, "Paradoxes, Contradictions, and the Limits of Science, American Scientist 104(3):166" Available on:

Article Paradoxes, Contradictions, and the Limits of Science

See also

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_Conscience

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Sciences_Paradoxes

I think art is creativity that has reached an ideal state, science is also creative work, but it is more connected with the material world, and art is purely soulful, what they have in common is genius

The Dramatic Art of War Photography. CBC News, Jun 11, 2022, by Sylvia Thomson, 50 years later, 'Napalm Girl' has a message for children in Ukraine, Kim Phuc Phan Thi, now living in Ajax, Ont., was 9 when she was burned by napalm in Vietnam War

Photo from the Article: South Vietnamese forces follow terrified children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, as they run down Route 1 near Trang Bang after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places on June 8, 1972. A South Vietnamese plane accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on South Vietnamese troops and civilians, and the terrified girl had ripped off her burning clothes while fleeing. (Nick Ut/The Associated Press)

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/War_Peace

On The Art of War. "Sun Tzu said: 1. War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. 2. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied. Li Ch’üan: ‘Weapons are tools of ill omen.’ War is a grave matter; one is apprehensive lest men embark upon it without due reflection." From the Chapter by Tzu, S. (2008), The art of war, In Strategic Studies (pp. 63-91). Routledge (4.1 k citations). Available on:

https://ds.amu.edu.et/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/1147/1007435.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Illustration Source: From the document

On The Art of Scientific Illustration: Hydrostatic paradox: Crève-tonneau de Blaise Pascal (Pascal's Barrel burst) "Apparatus imagined by Pascal to verify the law relating to the pressure of liquids on the walls of the vases which contain them. (The apparatus comprehends a barrel full of water surmounted by a long vertical tube. When water is poured into the tube, the staves of the barrel come apart.)" "Device invented by Pascal, which is used to verify the laws of the pressure of liquids on the walls of the vases which contain them". (Universal Encyclopedia)

Illustration: Hydrostatic paradox, "Pascal's barrel-break". Illustration for The Physical World by Amedee Guillemin (Hachette, 1881)

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Sciences_Paradoxes

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Forum_for_Enthusiasts_of_Ancient_Hydrology_and_Old_Hydraulics

Artistic Illustration of Human Misery and Human Hubris. Woman transported by jinrikisha (rickshaw- pousse-pousse), Guimet Museum, Paris, Distr. Rmn / Image Guimet, Photograph 45 from the album AP15884, early 1890s. It is well known that this brave "Kuruma" could miss food for himself and his family if he did not carry customers. But that does not prevent me from reflecting on Human Misery and Human Hubris

Commentary by Kōzaburō Tamamura

The rickshaw, jinrikisha in Japanese 1 (人力車), was developed in Japan around 1870, then exported by the British throughout their empire under the abbreviation of rickshaw. It is still in use in Calcutta. In Japan, it advantageously replaced the very slow and uncomfortable kago (cf. proof 15929) and was acclaimed by Japanese city dwellers and visitors to the point that this new element of Japanese modernity was paradoxically considered by Westerners as an element of modernity. 'traditional' exoticism of Japan and widely represented in tourist albums where, on the other hand, one very rarely finds a test of the horse-drawn trams of Tōkyō or the new train lines, other new means of transport. For short distances in town it was pulled by a single kuruma or djin, according to the vocabulary of the time for the rickshaw puller. (Own traduction from French)

Source:

https://guimet-photo-japon.fr/notices/notice.php?id=389

The Art of Poesy: We Lived Happily During the War [1]

And when they bombed other people’s houses, we

protested

but not enough, we opposed them but not

enough. I was

in my bed, around my bed America

was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house—

I took a chair outside and watched the sun.

In the sixth month

of a disastrous reign in the house of money

in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,

our great country of money, we (forgive us)

lived happily during the war.

[1] Kaminsky, Ilya, Kaminsky, Ilya. Deaf Republic (London: Faber and Faber, 2019), p. 4.

See Also

Haker, H. (2023). Vulnerability in Times of War: The Necessity of the Moral Third. De Ethica, 7(3), 7-29. Available on:

https://de-ethica.com/article/download/4721/4056

Excerpts: I may have the luxury of a bystander who, for the time being, observes the atrocities from a safe distance or may well look the other way, living “happily during the war,” as Ilya Kaminsky puts it... In war, all forms of vulnerability are exploited, because any demonstration of power and exercise of force increases the chance to weaken the dignity, integrity, and morale of the other party. Vulnerable groups who are already more vulnerable in ordinary times are especially exposed: women, children, prisoners, homeless, foreigners, ethnic and/or religious minorities. Moral vulnerability becomes a particularly heinous threat: coerced displacement and resettlement, incarceration in labor camps (Gulags), rape and disfiguring of the body, for instance, are means to annihilate the social and personal identity of the other, the declared enemy. The threat of these crimes against humanity suffices to make one freeze; their reality is often unbearable.

Short Learning Programme (SLP) for ARt and DEsign and Sustainability (2022-2024) "...The project intends to provide open educational resources for art students by integrating knowledge and values associated with sustainability and CC through art activities, design techniques, and digital solutions. This paper aims to present the initial results of the curriculum development of this SLP through formal learning modules and extracurricular community work concerning sustainability and CC"

Mapar, M., Bidarra, J., Caeiro, S., Veiga, P. A. D., & Nicolau, P. B. (2023). Integrating sustainability into art and design education: curriculum development. In International Conference of the ISDRS 2023 (11-13th of July 2023, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -UKM:

https://2023.isdrsconferences.org/

See Also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Art_of_State-of-the-Art_on_Science_Knowledge

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture

Peer review, scientific quality, and State-of-the-art. "..The peer review system relies on the recommendations of experts in the field overlooking what has previously been published and able to assess the degree of novelty as well as the quality of a given paper (Figure). Thus, they are asked to determine whether the methodology is state-of-the-art, the statistical analysis appropriate, and the paper written in a readable manner, as well illustrated with appropriate figures and tables. Generally, among leading journals, the acceptance rate resulting from peer review is commonly below 10% of submitted manuscripts...". Excerpts from:

Thomas F Lüscher, Kim Fox, Christian Hamm, Rickey E Carter, Stefano Taddei, Maarten Simoons, Filippo Crea, Scientific integrity: what a journal can and cannot do, European Heart Journal, Volume 41, Issue 48, 21 December 2020, Pages 4552–4555

https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/41/48/4552/6044483

Illustration: From the paper

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Art_of_State-of-the-Art_on_Science_Knowledge

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Scientific_Integrity_Research_Ethics_and_Higher_Education_Deontology_The_Senior_Scholars_Duty

Released 4 days ago: Jaffe et al., The art of science: Painting a new image of genomic research in the indigenous communities of the Southwest (See [1]). The Patient Engagement-Cancer Genome Sequencing Research Center with partners are developing culturally appropriate strategies and methods to address the underrepresentation of American Indians (AIs) in genomic research. ".. Center has three units, each tasked with specific research components to engage AI participants in participatory, clinically-meaningful genomic research: 1) the Participant Engagement Unit; 2) the Genomics Characterization Unit; and 3) the Engagement Optimization Unit (EOU). The EOU serves an innovative function through its rapid-cycle methods to optimize participant engagement. Although participants are generally pleased with their study participation, there are numerous opportunities for improvement. The informational materials represent a novel contribution to the field of genomic research. Efforts will continue to implement optimized processes for effective engagement of AI communities in genomic research and cancer care delivery."

[1] Jaffe, S. A., Jacobson, K., Rodman, J., Blair, C., MacKenzie, D., Quetawki, M., ... & Mishra, S. I. 2023, The art of science: Painting a new image of genomic research in the indigenous communities of the Southwest. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 32(12_Supplement), B134-B134.

https://aacrjournals.org/cebp/article/32/12_Supplement/B134/731148

"Brian Simpson, on behalf of the PSE Group:....Mr. Hughes is right when he says that politics is the art of the possible. And those, a minority - and I respect their point of view - who think that we should keep the old ways, keep a monopolistic sector and a reserved domain, well, if I see the merits of their argument, in real life we we're not there, it's not the world we live in..." Extract from the European Parliament debates (translated from French):

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/CRE-6-2007-07-10_FR.html?redirect.

The paper [1] by Ehsani et al., 2021, "State of the Art and Trends in Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles" provides insight into the current challenges and breakthroughs in the field of electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). The authors conclude that "...The fuel economy, drivability, and emissions are the main motivations for going to modern EV and HEV technologies. The HEV powertrain is more complex, in its architecture and control than the conventional and EV powertrains. This is mainly due to their two or more power sources, requiring optimal dynamic power split among them to achieve the best fuel economy..."

[1] Ehsani, M., Singh, K. V., Bansal, H. O., & Mehrjardi, R. T. (2021). State of the art and trends in electric and hybrid electric vehicles. Proceedings of the IEEE, 109(6), 967-984.

Available on:

https://biblioteca.umh.es/files/2021/06/State-of-the-Art-and-Trends-in-Electric-and-Hybrid-Electric-Vehicles.pdf

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Electric_Vehicle_Battery_and_Rare_Earths_Technological_Economic_and_Environmental_Issues

Stone, D. A. (2012). Policy paradox: The art of political decision making (Vol. 3). New York: WW Norton & company. A well-referenced book (more than 8k citations). Presentation: Policy Paradox develops a powerful and original theory that makes sense of politics in the real world. Unlike most texts, which treat policy analysis and policy making as distinct from one another, this books shows that the very categories behind policy analysis, such as equity, efficiency and liberty, are themselves paradoxical and must be resolved through political struggle. Stone demonstrates that the major methods of policy reform, incentives, rules, persuasion, are complex social processes rather than mere tools of policy makers. Above all, she shows how values enter into policy design and implementation

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Sciences_Paradoxes

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_and_history_serving_political_and_ideological_totalitarianism

Released 3 days ago. The paper by Corazza, M. V., & Robinson, M. 2023, "Water management technology for implementing a water culture for bus operators. Journal of Cleaner Production, 140172", explores several state-of-the-art water-saving solutions. A cost-benefit scenario assessment in which an innovative water-reclamation and harvesting technology for the bus sector is applied to washing operations within the European Commission's LIFEH2OBUS project. "The scenario's results show a 92% reduction in water consumption after one year of implementation; that is, 21,528,000 L saved for a fleet of 500 buses. If this technology can be implemented in 50% of the European transit fleet in five years (342,143 buses), 14,731,309,008 L/year can be saved, along with a 29 GWh/year reduction in energy consumption and 74 ktCO2eq/year fewer greenhouse gas emissions. The research goal is to evidence water saving potential and pioneer a new field of study on water management, thereby launching a new “Water Culture” among bus operators."

Available on:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652623043305

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Water_Footprint_Water_Colors_Blue_Water_Green_Water_Grey_Water_Virtual_Water

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Climate_Change_Water_Resources

Iceland volcano erupts on Reykjanes peninsula (BBC, 4 hours ago). Volcanic eruptions, always Fascinating in Beauty and Majesty, remind us in a spectacular way of essential factors in the heat balance of the globe: the transfers at the Visible Lithosphere-Atmosphere Interface in the form of Seismic and Volcanic Activities and the transfers at the Lithosphere-Hydrosphere interface, Invisible because they occur at the bottom of the oceans. Unlike the GHE, the effects of these activities on Climate Change are not well analyzed, at least in Climate Models, including those used in IPCC projections.

Illustration Source: ICELANDIC MET OFFICE:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67756413

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Climate_Change_and_Climate_Models_Progress_and_LimitsArticle Predictability of water resources with global climate models...

Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words

Transcend Media Service, Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism, Dec. 17, 2023, Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words. "Casualties up to 17 Dec 2023, 18,800+ killed* and more than 51,000 wounded in the Gaza Strip.; 297 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. (*)Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 20,000. (Mondoweiss)"...

Photo: Palestinians cry beside the bodies of their family members at Nasser Hospital after Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza, on 10 Dec 2023. Photo: Belal Khaled/Anadolu via Getty Images. See more Photos of Palestinian People suffering the pangs of unstoppable war on:

https://www.transcend.org/tms/2023/12/genocide-in-pictures-worth-a-trillion-words-6/

See Also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_and_history_serving_political_and_ideological_totalitarianism

https://www.researchgate.net/post/War_Peace

Art of Using AI on RG Discussion. Here is an exchange on Another Thread: "https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_Climate_Change_is_vulnerable_issue_to_address_in_future_Is_education_for_climate_resilience_needed_in_public_and_private_sector_How/29 (Page 29).

Jamel Chahed added an answer 20 seconds ago: @**** Thank you for your honest response. However, I find it inappropriate to have a machine responding in a discussion between people in place of one of them; and I find it all the more inappropriate when other interlocutors are not previously informed that they are dealing with a machine; as they will, without knowing it, find themselves responding in turn to a Machine: A Pretty Imposture. Thank you for your understanding.

@**** added an answer 1 hour ago: Jamel Chahed, Ok Sir , As I was very busy on the field trip and time was passing, I took the help of AI. It is sure always I don't like AI well but it is the tool of contemporary times that can guide us much better sometimes, we could do it manually. From medicine to Space everywhere AI is drastically used . I have already revised it sir. Thanks

Jamel Chahed added an answer, 14 hours ago: @**** Sorry but large parts of your reply are from or inspired by my Text. Again AI composition?

See Also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Scientific_Integrity_Research_Ethics_and_Higher_Education_Deontology_The_Senior_Scholars_Duty

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Scientific_Integrity_on_ResearchGate

Ants and the Art of War. Men/Women do not have a monopoly on the art of war. Here is my own translation from French of the article "The war strategies of the Ants, the art of war", available (in French) on: http://nature-extreme.psyblogs.net/2011/04/les-strategies-guerrieres-des-fourmis.html

"As Sun-Tsu foresaw, war is an art in which men are not the only representatives and holders. Numbers of species develop warlike strategies that have nothing to envy to the so-called "dominant" species.

Among these species, without a doubt, the most impressive are the species of social insects such as termites, bees, wasps... There are even strange species of spiders (for example, anelosimus eximius) which were thought to be solitary and have asocial habits. Over time, these colonies of insects have developed numerous strategies for the attack, defense, demographic control or territory management. In these respects, the animal order of Formicidae, known to everyone as the ant, would make military leaders the world over green with admiration.

The War Effort and Population Control

To protect themselves or undertake war campaigns, the colonies create soldiers, a caste with the aim of safeguarding the colony, by all means, including sacrifice. To create soldiers, the workers overfeed the larvae (food will determine the caste) at the expense of a more advantageous development of the colony... This war effort will therefore temporarily slow down the evolution of the anthill... This is why in times of peace, this production remains limited (except in the large-scale colonies, already installed), but it is enough that a threat of war is perceived by the workers so that an increase in guard appears.

Espionage and Disinformation

Other strategies akin to the control of information have emerged over the course of evolution, as is the case in a monumental war opposing, in the USA, the fire ants "Solenopsis invicta", extremely powerful, and their sworn enemies, the common wood ants or Pheidoles (Pheidoles megacephala). The latter have conquered a large majority of terrestrial ecosystems around the world. The species is particularly invasive and poses many problems, both for dwellings and for small vertebrates or local fauna. While it was thought that fire ants were clearly capable of competing, these being by nature particularly aggressive and dangerous (their sting is very painful and dangerous, so much so that they can hunt small mammals), the reality on the terrain is quite different. Fire ants have nests a hundred times larger than those of pheidoles, very powerful venom and unparalleled strength... and yet, pheidoles abound around their nests... why?

The fire ants send their scouts around the colony in order to spot any possible threat... as soon as a pheidole, even a worker, crosses the path of a Solenopsis invicta scout, a first contact takes place: the pheidole rushes on the powerful attacker to soak up its scent, then immediately flees, returning to its colony secreting orientation pheromones that will redirect its acolytes. She does not fail in passing to jostle her congeners, who, excited by the smell of the assailant which permeates the fugitive, quickly follow the trail to the fire ant, in greater numbers and in growing excitement. .. The powerful fire scout is quickly reduced to nothing... In fact, as no scout returns to the colony, the fire ants simply do not realize the presence of pheidoles...

Total war and genocide

Pheidoles and other warrior species adapt their campaigns according to an effective counting strategy intended to estimate enemy forces: the more clashes between a group of pheidoles and a Solinopsis scout, the more they deduce that the source is powerful, and vice versa. The fewer the clashes, the more the pheidoles extend, get closer to the opposing colony... As soon as the pheidole colony has reached a sufficient number of elements, and the more the clashes become rare, the more the fateful date of the invasion is approaching. If the skirmishes have their strategy, as soon as a colony reaches a number 10 times greater than the rival colony, the total and barbaric invasion takes place: return to weapons and primitive strategies, massacre with the mandible, roll of venom and formic acid... the goal being to kill the queen and devour the baskets so that the annihilation is total, clean and final.

Terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and sacrifice

Another interesting case is that of the kamikaze ants of a species of camponotus (camponotus saundersi) living in the forests of Malaysia: their body is crossed, from the mandibles to the end of the abdomen, by glands stuffed with toxic secretions, which transform them into real walking bombs. When these ants get into trouble in combat, they violently contract their abdominal muscles, shattering their exoskeleton and showering their opponents with sticky, corrosive venom. The explosion of the internal organ and the spilling of the venom can immobilize and kill nearby opponents. This phenomenon, called autothysis (Maschwitz and Maschwitz, 1974) is found in all species of componotus cylindricus, but also in other non-ant species. Termite soldiers Globitermes sulphureus use it in the same circumstances, or during intra-nest wars, to block access to a tunnel.

State of siege and territory management

Other ants, such as the desert ant, flood the entrance to colonies of other species with toxic substances that cause fear of their enemies. They thus besiege colonies and take advantage of this to steal food from the hunting grounds, weakening their adversaries, who are ten times bigger, the honey ants. These have developed reserve strategies allowing them to counter the desert ant: some workers are devoted to a storage task, ingesting the food recovered during good times, inflating themselves until they are immobilized, in order to serve as guards eating to other ants in the colony during lean time

Rebellion

Solenopsis daguerri (Santschi), on the other hand, chooses to strike at the heart of enemy colonies, which it invades in the hope of replacing the opposing queen, in order to take control of the colony. Daguerri Solenopsis enter a fire ant nest by emitting pheromones allowing them to go unnoticed (recognized by fire ants as belonging to their colony) and look for the queen: two or three sent are enough: once the queen is found, solenopsis daguerri. climbs on the back of the queen fire ant and holds her firmly with her legs and jaws, then begins to produce pheromones similar to that of the opposing queen. The workers then feed the parasites by abandoning their queen, who etiolates and dies. The daguerri solenopsis can then calmly give birth to new queens. This particularity also makes it, for men, a very interesting weapon in the fight against other species[1].

Larva theft and slavery

In the same spirit, the queen Formica sanguinea is able to kill the queen of another colony, for example of Formica Fusca, to take her place and benefit from her support. The queen is indeed not able to take care of her first generation of workers alone. When its colony develops, it is not uncommon for Formica sanguinea to launch real raids against neighboring colonies, stealing pupae, larvae or cocoons to bring them back to their own colonies and thus increase the workforce.

The raid can follow a multi-stage attack pattern: when the sun is at its highest during the day, and a nest of serviformica (formica fusca) has been spotted, several groups of hundreds of Sanguinea workers form and prepare for the attack: one of the groups will invest the opposing nest in search of the brood, exciting the formica fusca whose several workers will try to protect the cocoons and the larvae, fleeing from the nest. Waiting patiently outside, the rest of the Sanguinea armada throws itself on the fugitives to steal the future slaves.

Once integrated into the brood, these new ants in the making will be treated like their genetically different sisters, in order to become slave workers of the colony.

Other species tend to refine the takeover of a slave colony. thus, the queen Myrmoxenus ravouxi will play dead near an opposing colony so that the workers of this colony bring her directly into the nest. Once settled, she kills the queen, impregnates herself with her pheromones, and begins to lay her eggs, benefiting from the help of the deception of ignorant slave workers.

Similarly, Amazon ants (Polyergus rufescens) have become so dependent on this method that they are unable to rear their brood or develop their nests without the help of slaves from other colonies.

In conclusion

Ants are some of the most aggressive life forms on the planet, basing their foreign policy on relentless aggression, constant territorial conquest, and the annihilation of neighboring colonies by genocide as soon as possible. For 100 million years, ants have waged merciless struggles and conquered almost the entire living surface. They represent a number of some 10 million billion individuals. They correspond in biomass to nearly 4 times the biomass of all terrestrial vertebrates, and nearly 20% of those of all insects. Proof, if needed, of the omnipresence and adaptive power of these eternal builders and warriors".

[1] Drees M.B., Knutson E. (2002). Potential biological control agent for the red imported fire ant. Texas A&M University. College Station, Texas.

Merry Christmas to All Colleagues and Hope for Better Tomorrows for Humanity. Thoughts and compassion for the innocent victims of armed conflicts in Ukraine Palestine and everywhere else.

Open letter from the Palestinian Patriarch "from https://groupegaullistesceaux.fr/ (Own Translation from French)": Michel Sabbah, the former Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, addressed the global public from the birthplace of Christ in Beit Lahm, through the "Palestine 100 Initiative" platform, for this year's Christmas. In a message dedicated to war-fallen Gaza, the Patriarch said, "Christmas this year, in Beit Lahm and all over the world, is a prayer to God Almighty, to stop the war in Gaza and all of Palestine. During these days, many direct their eyes and hearts to Beit Lahm, but only an hour away, they see the war in Gaza, where humans are buried beneath the rubble of their own homes, they see children beneath the rubble, they see humanity beneath the rubble."

He regarded the war as a genocide of Palestinians, adding that Palestinians and Christians witnessing the genocide during these specific times, "must recognize that Christmas this year should not be restricted to Beit Lahm solely but must traverse to every oppressed human, particularly on the Holy Land, and it makes its way to Gaza and all of Palestine, where death reigns supreme". The patriarch called for an end to the aggressive genocide in Gaza, calling on Christians around the world to support and defend the Palestinian cause. “Gaza deserves liberation, independence and peace,” the patriarch said, adding that the root causes of war and occupation must be investigated, as Gaza and Palestine have a long history of war.

Artworks In Hydraulics. Excellent Documentary [1] about the Canal du Midi in France (In French). Connecting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean by a large canal of more than 300 km is an idea that dates back to Antiquity. It was not until the 17th century and the reign of Louis XIV that this project came to fruition. It will be the Sun King's biggest construction site after Versailles and its digging will require all kinds of technological feats to span hills and rivers. The Canal du Midi was completed in 1681 after 12 years of work. Today listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is one of the oldest canals in Europe still in operation. (Own translation)

[1] The incredible story of the Canal du Midi: The project of Louis XIV - Complete documentary - AMP. “Canal du Midi, a revealed heritage” Director: Emmanuel Amara. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4vmKsnxccA

See Also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Forum_for_Enthusiasts_of_Ancient_Hydrology_and_Old_Hydraulics

Chapter on Servitization Paradoxes, by Lankauskienė, R. (2024), State of the Art in Servitization Research. In: Rural Transformation through Servitization. Palgrave Macmillan, Released on 16 December 2023

Abstract: This chapter gives an overview of the state of the art in servitization research. It is step-by-step disclosed in this chapter, how, stepping into the third decade of the twenty-first century, servitization has become one of the most active domains in overall service research, arriving from multiple disciplines: marketing, operations, service management, engineering management, and strategy. It is explained, how the term ‘servitization’ becomes understood more clearly, referring to a particular entity’s transition from a product-driven business model, focused on selling product logic to a more service-oriented business model, focusing on consumer facilitation in value cocreation through advanced services and solutions. The chapter introduces relevant communities of scholars in servitization research, paradoxes of servitization that are confusing industrial economists, and differences between key research areas in manufacturing and farming servitization.

See Also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Sciences_Paradoxes

In these holiday days, I would like to mention this article which inspires the desire to celebrate life (or to simply live) despite everything: Straits Times, Dec. 25, 2023, World celebrates Christmas in shadow of wars in Gaza, Ukraine. "... People donated Santa caps on beaches, ski slopes and streets around the globe on Dec 25 to celebrate Christmas, with Israel's war on Hamas and Russia's invasion of Ukraine casting a shadow over the holiday...". Happy Holidays to all

Read the Article on:

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/world-celebrates-christmas-in-shadow-of-wars-in-gaza-ukraine

See Also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/War_Peace

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_and_history_serving_political_and_ideological_totalitarianism

Released two weeks ago, the chapter by Parkinson, G. 2023, "Twentieth-century revolutions in art and science. In Art and knowledge after 1900 (pp. 46-68). Manchester University Press" looks at both the ways in which artists perceived major scientific discoveries and the manner in which historians have narrated the epistemic relationships between art and science in specific historical periods

Happy New Year

Recently released: Le gaslighting ou l'Art de faire taire les femmes (Gaslighting or the Art of silencing women, Own translation) by Hélène Frappat, L'observatoire La Releve October 11, 2023

Presentation: Gaslight, a seminal film directed by George Cukor in 1944, recounts Paula's ordeal... Gaslighting originally refers to a marital relationship based on the manipulation of a woman by her husband. It became a key word in American psychology, then a critical tool of feminism, before recently defining a type of misleading political language and the violence that results from it. To spot it is first to point out the abuse suffered by the victims, most often women, as well as the process implemented to blur this very status of victim - the gaslighter is a master in the art of reversing the roles. It is then to elucidate how the foundations of reality, even of truth, are progressively undermined...

Addressing food (in)security: from techniques to rules: "Addressing food (in)security will then require a multi-prong strategy. From a scientific perspective, working towards food security and food sovereignty requires using State-of-the-art technologies, scientific knowledge of agricultural systems and nutrition to improve the methods of production, conservation and distribution of food. Agricultural innovation becomes imperative to increase productivity and secure the global food supply. For instance, farm automation, including automated harvesters, drones, autonomous tractors, seeding and weeding can help bring together agricultural machinery, computer systems, electronics, chemical sensors and data management to reduce labour time, promote higher yields and efficient use of resources." Excerpt from:

Choukroune, L., & Nedumpara, J. J. (2023). Guest editorial: Food (in) security and international law. Journal of International Trade Law and Policy, 22(3), 89-94. Available on:

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JITLP-09-2023-064/full/html

See Also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Food_Water_Security_in_Water-Scarce_Countries

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Water_Footprint_Water_Colors_Blue_Water_Green_Water_Grey_Water_Virtual_Water

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture

Just Published: Kayser, C. V. (Ed.). (2024). Art as experience of the living body/L’art comme experience du corps vivant: An East/West dialogue/Un dialogue Orient/Occident. Vernon Press.

Readable in part on:

https://books.google.tn/books?hl=fr&lr=&id=SfPoEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=%22art%22+%22conscience%22&ots=EPm67sKw4q&sig=YcNfq-954t5IR9qwZPhI1ZFU-J0&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22art%22%20%22conscience%22&f=true

"By having the persona appear in masks, the conventional dichotomy between artist and art seems to be erased and consequently sublated in a unified aesthetic phenomenon" This is the ultimate conclusion of the very recent Chapter by Thaliath, B. (2024) "Nietzsche's Aesthetic Phenomenon. In Aesthetics across Cultures (pp. 31-47). Routledge India.". Available on:

https://www.academia.edu/download/107004938/Nietzsche_Aesthetics_Phenomenon.pdf

With outstanding illustrations

On the Art of Learning. ".... “intercultural learning” has become an influential approach to language education, based on the idea of “mediation between cultures”, “personal engagement with diversity”, and “interpersonal exchanges of meaning”...." Excerpt from the conclusion of the well-referenced paper review (more than 7 k citations) by Kramsch, C. (2014). "Language and culture. AILA review, 27(1), 30-55". Available on:

https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/aila.27.02kra?crawler=true&mimeType=application%2Fpdf

See Also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_Conscience

What is public art?: Time, place, and meaning, by Hein, H. 1996, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 54(1), 1-7". The author wrote within the introduction: "Public art is an oxymoron according to the standards of modernist art and aesthetic theory. Modern philosophical aesthetics focuses almost exclusively on subjective experience and a commodified work of art. Art is taken to be the product of an individual and autonomous act of expression, and its appreciation is, likewise, a private act of contemplation. By contrast, as a public phenomenon, art must entail the artist's self-negation and deference to a collective community. It is interesting to observe that the recognized art of nearly all cultures, including that of the Western European tradition prior to the late Renaissance, embraces just such a collective model, indulging the differences among individuals as variant manifestations of a common spirit. The celebrated treasures of Greece and Rome, as well as the Christian works of the Middle Ages and the age of the fresco that succeeded them, do not exalt the private vision of individual artists so much as they bespeak the shared values and convictions of cultural communities, and are accordingly to be found in those edifices and open places where people regularly gather to commemorate those same values and convictions. Privacy was for centuries a privative concept, demarcating the dissociated and limited experience of persons cut off from and below the level of full social humanity..."

See:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/431675

See Also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Art_of_State-of-the-Art_on_Science_Knowledge

The chapter by Shapshay, S. (2024). "The Moral Weight of Art in Schopenhauer. In The Schopenhauerian Mind (pp. 198-210), Routledge" argues that "Schopenhauer, like Kant, makes no real trouble for the ethical criticism of art, despite the fact that for both thinkers aesthetic experience is disinterested (or, in Schopenhauer's formulation, will-less [willenlos; interesselos]). But the reasons for the legitimacy of ethical criticism differ between them". On the second question—regarding aesthetic education—the chapter argues that "there is a striking difference between them, one that makes Schopenhauer the philosopher who goes further in the direction of autonomism, in theorizing a greater separation than Kant had done between the moral and aesthetic realms".

"Beauty and aesthetics have a thought-provoking course of evolution and development in the history of the world, in such a way that the known cultures before written history such as China, Egypt, Iran, Africa and Europe considered its examples to be human characters, behaviors and virtues, and on the other hand, beauty was constructions, functions, skills, creatures and natural objects; Animals, trees and rock shapes were described". Excerpt from:

Ezatollahinejad, T. (2024). From the philosophy of beauty to the anthropology of aesthetics. Iranian Journal of Anthropological Research, 13(2).

"The Art of Conjecture: A Window into the Heart" This is the title of a just-published article by John Jeffries Martin, "Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 33–56" One may read within the abstract "In 1561, Francesco Casoni published De arte, ac ratione in criminum causis disserendi, a dialogue that offered judges a rigorous method of investigation in criminal cases in which eyewitness testimony or a confession was lacking. Typically, in such cases, judges relied on their own personal arbitrium (discretion) in deciding whether to remand defendants to torture or sentence them to the gallows. Drawing not only on Aristotelian logic and classical rhetorical theory but also on the works of contemporary philosophers, Casoni used his dialogue to lay out a rigorous interpretative methodology. To Casoni, the careful elaboration of inferences, along with the proper use of loci, and a reasoned interpretation of signs (both natural signs and signs of conscience) enabled judges to read, through the opaque surfaces of the body, the interior states of those brought into their courts on suspicion of crimes—and to do so without resorting to torture."

See Also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_Conscience

The recent paper by Van de Cruys, S., Frascaroli, J., & Friston, K. (2024). "Order and change in art: towards an active inference account of aesthetic experience. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 379(1895)" tries to answer the question: "How to account for the powerful effects of art on us? For example , what do people mean when they insist that a piece of art (be it literature, visual art or music) has helped them through difficult times?" Noting that "art does not help like antibiotics do, eliminating the worldly cause of distress" the paper sheds new light on crucial features of our aesthetic experiences and encounters, ranging from the most mundane to the most sublime. These "stem from unexpected validations of our model of the world (i.e. of the model that we are), validations that increase the challenge (uncertainty) one can engage with. It is about the change towards order (the uncertainty reduction in the arc) and the order towards change (a secure basis to open new options in freedom). It is about the unexpected reassurance that one's emotional dynamics are to be expected (normal) given one's reference frame (prior beliefs, goals, etc.), thereby rendering one's experiences predictable and meaningful, rather than aberrant, irrational or unpredictable. But it is also about what this 'relief' enables in terms of further, longer encounters with the not-me, with the yet-to-be-modelled.

Paper available on:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2022.0411

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_Conscience

"Shinoda has said that “no Japanese can die for freedom but it is very Japanese to die for aesthetic purity”. While many may contest the cultural essentialism of this statement, it gives us a clue to understand Shinoda’s own drive for a crystalline aesthetic expression that gives Double Suicide its potency and makes it one of the truly great achievements of Japanese cinema." Excerpt from: Spielberg, S. (2024). Double Suicide and the “fetishism of space”. Future.

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2011/cteq/double-suicide-and-the-fetishism-of-space/

History Politics and the Art of Telling glories. "All men are liars" The Bible. Quotes; (Own translation) "History is condemned, by a vice of nature, to lies". "The theater was born from history. But History owes so much to the theatre" Alain Decaux, The Anastasia Enigma. Politics is only the art of lying, the art of disguising oneself." Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Thoughts and maxims (1792) "The novel is the story of the present, while history is the novel of the past." Georges Duhamel "History books that contain no lies are very boring". Anatole France "History is a series of lies on which we agree". Napoleon Bonaparte "History is just a tall tale". Jules Renard, Journal. "History is written by the winners" (or by the winners) Robert Brasillach, far-right journalist and collaborations" Modern history is written with prejudices, ancient history with scissors". Maurice Joly,

“Saying and singing were once the same thing”: by postulating the identity of these two terms, Rousseau... also makes vocal melody the very prototype of primitive language... Music thus accesses, in Rousseau, a prestigious status: that of the language of origins..."Jacques Derrida further clarifies this idea: "Music is born from the voice, and not from sound. No pre-linguistic sonority can, according to Rousseau, open the time of music. Originally, there is singing" (1967 (note 30), p. 281). Excerpts from: "JUGER DES ARTS EN MUSICIEN by Marie-Pauline Martin, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, I. L’Essai sur l’origine des langues : positionner l’art musical. p. 21-40"(Own translation)

Available in French on

https://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/8571?lang=fr

Stolz, S.A. (2017) "Nietzsche on Aesthetics, Educators and Education. Stud Philos Educ 36, 683–695" ".. Nietzschean education is primarily concerned with the cultivation of the self. This is certainly not an easy undertaking as it requires both an educator and education that can reveal to students “what one is” now (being), and who they could become (becoming). In order to bring this about, Nietzsche employs the use of an aesthetic model (ideal type) in the form of an exemplar for students to aspire to become. Here, the exemplar plays an important educative function in Nietzsche’s thinking because the role of the ideal type is to unsettle the student so that they are inspired to attain their unattained self that they recognise in the other.."

See Also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Scientific_Integrity_Research_Ethics_and_Higher_Education_Deontology_The_Senior_Scholars_Duty

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_and_history_serving_political_and_ideological_totalitarianism

Reuters, February 8, 2024, Reporting by Juan Medina, Elena Rodriguez, Silvio Castellanos and Michael Gore, The special patrol protecting Spain's brown bears and wary villagers. "..Spain’s brown bears, once nearly extinct, stray into the mountain villages in the north of the country so often these days that the regional government of Castile and Leon has set up a patrol for locals to report animals on the prowl... “The increase in the bear population leads to an increase in conflicts (with humans),” said patrol coordinator Daniel Pinto. The bears now approach the villages more often as they struggle to find enough food up in the mountains, he added... Historically, brown bears roamed much of the Iberian peninsula but hunting and loss of habitat had a significant impact on the species. They received protected status in 1973, although hunting was allowed to continue.."

Photo (From the Article): Environmental agents from Cervera de Pisuerga and veterinarians from the regional government of Castile and Leon monitor the mountains where Iberian brown bears live, in Valle de Pineda, Spain, May 18, 2022. REUTERS/Juan Medina

Article Available on:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spain-wildlife-iberian-bear/

France Live, Feb. 09, 2024, A drag-queen course offered to children (Own translation) "..For the next school holidays which will begin in a few days, she offered an unexpected training course. The House of Youth and Culture In Mérignac (France) suggested that parents register their children for a drag queen training course. Training is open from 11 years old. The opportunity to "break the codes" according to Girofard, the LGBTI+ center in Bordeaux. As our colleagues from CNews report, young people will be able to create their own character. They will then be able to choose their drag name, decide on their gender and have their own code for this course. But...

Read in French on:

https://www.francelive.fr/teaser/mce-tv/stage-une-formation-de-drag-queen-pour-enfants-provoque-un-scandale-8400968/

On learning from the past. "Our twenty-first-century global civilization is not the first to face the prospect of environmentally induced economic decline. The question is how we will respond. We do have one unique asset at our command—an archaeological record that shows us what happened to earlier civilizations that got into environmental trouble and failed to respond." This is what this research tries to teach us: "Brown, J. R. (1989). Learning from the Past. In An Intimate Relation: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Presented to Robert E. Butts on his 60th Birthday (pp. 343-367). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.". Read on:

http://www.earth-policy.org/book_bytes/2007/pb2ch01_ss4

War and Aesthetics: Art, Technology, and the Futures of Warfare , J. Bjering, A. Engberg-Pedersen, S. Gade, C. S. Toft (Editors), The MIT Press, July 9th, 2024. A provocative edited collection that takes an original approach toward the black box of military technology, surveillance, and AI—and reveals the aesthetic dimension of warfare. "War and Aesthetics gathers leading artists, political scientists, and scholars to outline the aesthetic dimension of warfare and offer a novel perspective on its contemporary character and the construction of its potential futures. Edited by a team of four scholars, Jens Bjering, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Solveig Gade, and Christine Strandmose Toft, this timely volume examines warfare through the lens of aesthetics, arguing that the aesthetic configurations of perception, technology, and time are central to the artistic engagement with warfare, just as they are key to military AI, weaponry, and satellite surveillance. People mostly think of war as the violent manifestation of a political rationality. But when war is viewed through the lens of aesthesis—meaning perception and sensibility—military technology becomes an applied science of sensory cognition. An outgrowth of three war seminars that took place in Copenhagen between 2018 and 2021, War and Aesthetics engages in three main areas of inquiry—the rethinking of aesthetics in the field of art and in the military sphere; the exploration of techno-aesthetics and the wider political and theoretical implications of war technology; and finally, the analysis of future temporalities that these technologies produce. The editors gather various traditions and perspectives ranging from literature to media studies to international relations, creating a unique historical and scientific approach that broadly traces the entanglement of war and aesthetics across the arts, social sciences, and humanities from ancient times to the present. As international conflict looms between superpowers, War and Aesthetics presents new and illuminating ways to think about future conflict in a world where violence is only ever a few steps away

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/War_Peace

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Just published. The book by Menon, D. M., & Taha, A. (Eds.), 2024, "Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics. Taylor & Francis" engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance ; as a space of decolonialization; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue among scholars and filmmakers from the Global South: India, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, and Egypt. The essays in the volume approach cinema as an intertwined process of both production and perception not divorced from the economic, social, political and cultural. They emphasize film as a visual medium where form, structure and content are not separable. Through a wide array of film-readings, the authors explore the concept of a southern cinematic aesthetics, in particular, and the concept of the Global South in general.

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Physical Lab versus Virtual Lab. Just published [1] "Integration of Virtual and Physical Labs for Fluid Dynamics Education" "...At Purdue University, the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AAE) and the School of Mechanical Engineering (ME), in collaboration with the School of Engineering Education (ENE), are addressing this issue by developing a Virtual Lab platform for their fluid mechanics and aerodynamics courses. A virtual wind tunnel has been developed and implemented in the pre-lab exercise for a Wake Survey lab, and a survey was used to collect feedback from the students. The response to the virtual lab platform was overwhelmingly positive, with respondents expressing overall satisfaction with the virtual lab experience, emphasizing its role in enhancing their understanding of theoretical concepts and preparing them for the physical lab..."

[1] Bane, S. P., Anilkumar, A., Shenai, P., Junus, F., Brophy, S., Chen, J., ... & Takahashi, G. (2024). Integration of Virtual and Physical Labs for Fluid Dynamics Education. In AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum (p. 0920).

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Affect, Emotion and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires presents new approaches to Ottoman Safavid and Mughal art and culture. Taking artistic agency as a starting point, the authors consider the rise in status of architects, the self-fashioning of artists, the development of public spaces, as well as new literary genres that focus on the individual subject and his or her place in the world. They consider the issue of affect as performative and responsive to certain emotions and actions, thus allowing insights into the motivations behind the making and, in some cases, the destruction of works of art. The interconnected histories of Iran,Turkey and India thus highlight the urban and intellectual changes that defined the early modern period.

Rizvi, K. (Ed.). (2017). Affect, Emotion, and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires: New Studies in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Art and Culture (Vol. 9). Brill.

"In this project, a combination of three related methodologies (3D modeling, animation and AR) was used to help students with 3D spatial visualization of molecules and their chemical reactivity. 3D animations and a custom designed AR app (ARchemy) were introduced to enhance students’ learning and understanding of 3D visualization in chemistry education at different levels..." From the conclusion of the paper: Abdinejad, M., Talaie, B., Qorbani, H. S., & Dalili, S. (2021). Student perceptions using augmented reality and 3d visualization technologies in chemistry education. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 30, 87-96. Available on:

Article Student Perceptions Using Augmented Reality and 3D Visualiza...

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"In this paper, I have shown how the arts and humanities can offer important contributions to the challenge of engaging and learning about climate change. Art has multiple potentials that can be harnessed for climate change education, among them its capacity to engage emotions and to expand imaginaries of the future to create hope, responsibility and care, as well as healing. Art is also a powerful form of communication; it can integrate diverse knowledges through experiential learning and it can engage young people in deeper, embodied, and potentially transformative ways with the subject". From the conclusion of the paper: Abdinejad, M., Talaie, B., Qorbani, H. S., & Dalili, S. (2021). Student perceptions using augmented reality and 3d visualization technologies in chemistry education. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 30, 87-96. Available on:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-020-02804-4

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".. a thoroughly excellent book, a magnum opus of genuine scholarship, and a genuine delight for readers" This is what Lawrence Rainey from the University of York wrote about the well-cited book by Barnhisel, G., 2015, "Cold War modernists: Art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy, Columbia University Press".

About the book

Cold War Modernists documents how the CIA, the State Department, and private cultural diplomats transformed modernist art and literature into pro-Western propaganda during the first decade of the Cold War

About the Author

Greg Barnhisel teaches in the English department at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. His previous books include James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound and, with Catherine Turner, Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War

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Image and Imagination. Excerpts from Möller, F. (2020). Peace aesthetics: A patchwork. Peace & Change, 45(1), 28-54. "...Leonardo, argues that “the invisible and the unseen has, paradoxically, a greater power to activate the power of imagination than a visible image.” Thus, while a visible image has the power to activate imagination, an invisible one has an even greater power to do so: imagining peace cannot be limited to imaging peace..., comparison between the real and the imagined peace or, in other words , between the implemented peace and the “positive peace as imagined by the inhabitants of the post-peace accord society” can help identify gaps and deficiencies in peace accords. The arts and visual culture have been concerned for a long time with questions pertaining to imagination , visibility and invisibility. Photography makes visible that which, while existing in fact, cannot be seen by the human eye..."

Available on:

https://trepo.tuni.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/143515/Peace_Aesthetics.pdf?sequence=1

With magnificent illustrations.

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We owe to Ibn Khaldoun (1332-1406), historian, geographer, and precursor of sociology, a formidable quote “Al adel assas al omrane”, which translates as “Justice is the Foundation of Civilization” [1]. All governments that practice discrimination of any kind are outside of Civilization, outside of History.

[1] https://docplayer.fr/50217192-Universitatis-petru-maior-historia.html

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In their excellent paper, "Hydraulics and hydrology in a passage of the kitāb al-āṯār al-bāqiya by al-bīrūnī. Arabic sciences and philosophy, 31(2), 159-182, 2021", the authors (Borroni, M., & Boselli, V. from Italian University) comment on al-Bīrūnī’s understanding of fluvial regimes, water physical behaviour, and of a handful of peculiar natural phenomena. "The main concern of al-Bīrūnī is to defend the principle that water moves only downwards in absence of external forces. In doing so, the Khwarazmian scientist touches on the origin of salinity of the seas, the functioning of syphons related hydraulic machines...

Al-Bīrūnī presents the reader with a counterargument to his central statement that he proceeds to refute. The case of the uprising channel is not discussed at length, but it is nonetheless noteworthy. Based on al-Bīrūnī’s description of the phenomenon, it could be hypothesized that his anonymous source, or contender, witnessed a hydraulic jump being exploited for irrigation purposes."

Available on:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/8CC7018941710541BBCF61C9E1BEC4FE/S0957423921000059a.pdf/hydraulics-and-hydrology-in-a-passage-of-the-kitab-al-aar-al-baqiya-by-al-biruni.pdf

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James L. Smith's book, "Water in Medieval Intellectual Culture, Turnhout, Brepols (Cursor mundi, 30), 2017" deals with an original civilizational and cultural question: How is the imaginary of water mobilized in intellectual practices? Taking water as a common thread, conceived as an intellectual entity, the volume explores the monastic texts of the 12th century to deliver to us a relevant contribution to "the understanding of twelfth-century monasticism and medieval intellectual culture by exploring the relationship between water and the composition of thought. It provides a fresh insight into twelfth-century monastic philosophies by studying the use of water as an abstract entity in medieval thought to frame and discuss topics such as spirituality, the natural order, knowledge visualization, and metaphysics in various high medieval texts, including Godfrey of Saint-Victor's Fons Philosophiae, Peter of Celle's letter corpus, and the Description of Clairvaux. Through case studies of water in poetry, landscape narrative, and epistolary communication, this work traces the role of water as a uniquely medieval instrument of thought. Theoretical chapters of this book use water to explore the shaping of the medieval metaphor. Further case studies examine the differing and complex uses of water as a metaphor in various monastic texts. Focusing on the changeable power and material properties of water, this volume assesses the significance and deployment of environmental imagery in the composition, narration, and recollection of organized thought within the twelfth-century monastic community"

See:

https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503572338-1

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On the book by Hugo Clément "Le Théorème de Vaquita", Faillard, Graffik, Oct. 4, 2023. ".. “The Vaquita Theorem,” is based on years of reporting about animal rights and biodiversity by the journalist Hugo Clément for the French television program “Sur le front” (“On the Frontline”). Co-written with Vincent Ravalec and illustrated by Dominique Mermoux, the book follows Clément from Uganda’s gorilla sanctuaries to the upper Gulf of California, where only around 10 vaquitas, the whale species in the book’s title, still exist. “I have a very visual memory,” Clément said in an interview. “I remember things more easily when they are presented in a graph or a diagram, and that is also the strength of comic books: complicated things can be explained simply, with key facts.”

Illustration also allowed him to depict images that couldn’t be shown on television. One spread in “The Vaquita Theorem” shows a tradition from the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean known as “grindadráp,” in which hunters drive hundreds of whales into a shallow bay and slaughter them. In this scene, Mermoux’s drawings spare no detail of the horror: The only color on the page is bright red from the animals’ blood filling the sea. “With illustration, you can convey what happened while applying a filter to these horrific images,” Clément said. “The power of comics is they transmit a lot of emotion, and that also makes them a very effective tool for reaching a broad range of people.”.."

From New York Times, Jan. 24, 2024, By Julia Webster Ayuso, Reporting from Paris: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/books/french-nonfiction-comic-books.html

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The Chapter by Tan, A. T., 2024 "The Arms Race in Contemporary East Asia, In Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare (pp. 491-503), Routledge" is about the action-reaction dynamic of arming involved in the countries of the East Asian Region including China, South Korea, North Korea, Japan and Taiwan. "The rapid build-up of arms and the presence of an interactive element are the essence of arms racing behaviour. In the context of heightened regional tensions between China on the one hand, and the United States and various regional states on the other, there are heightened risks from the security dilemma, including misperceptions and conflict spirals that could lead to war. The danger is accentuated by the absence of effective regional institutions, norms and regimes that could ameliorate interstate tensions and conflicts. The solution to the arms race in East Asia might lie with the experience of Europe during the Cold War, where confidence and security-building measures helped to ease tensions and contain the Cold War arms race. It is therefore imperative that East Asia begins the process of confidence-building which can ease tensions and lead to greater stability."

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What can art do? The Essay by Kerr, R. 2020, "Art, "Aesthetics, Justice, and Reconciliation: What Can Art Do? American Journal of International Law, 114, 123-127" discusses "the potential role of art and aesthetics in furthering goals of international courts beyond justice, i.e., towards peace and reconciliation." For this purpose, the author explores "three ways in which art has enormous potential, while also acknowledging that there are associated risks and challenges that might cause us to temper our enthusiasm". Available on:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/8965A016EB04B26925F6CF16E1BF65B0/S2398772320000240a.pdf/art_aesthetics_justice_and_reconciliation_what_can_art_do.pdf

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On The Aesthetic Paradox of Tourism. "The analogy between the dilemma of everyday aesthetics and the aesthetic paradox of tourism allows for the application to the latter of the strategies that have been put forward to solve the former." Excerpt from: Benenti, M., & Giombini, L. (2021). The aesthetic paradox of tourism. Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, 12, 1-31. Available on: https://iris.uniupo.it/bitstream/11579/147660/1/7.Benenti_Giombini_The%20Aesthetic%20Paradox%20of%20Tourism_ESA.pdf

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Raphaël Enthoven thinks that a machine will never be a philosopher. Do you think so? A New Question On: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Raphael_Enthoven_thinks_that_a_machine_will_never_be_a_philosopher_Do_you_think_so

"From science to law, from medicine to military questions, artificial intelligence is shaking up all our fields of expertise. All?? No?! In philosophy, AI is useless." The Artificial Mind, by Raphaël Enthoven, Humensis, 2024.

The review by Testolin, A. "Can Neural Networks Do Arithmetic? A Survey on the Elementary Numerical Skills of State-of-the-Art Deep Learning Models. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 744" examines the recent literature, concluding that ".. even state-of-the-art architectures and large language models often fall short when probed with relatively simple tasks designed to test basic numerical and arithmetic knowledge..". Available on:

Article Can Neural Networks Do Arithmetic? A Survey on the Elementar...

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From the "Informatic Tribe" to the "Artificial Intelligence Sects".

Philippe Breton, The Informatic Tribe. Investigation into a modern passion. Paris: Métailié, 1990. "...A machine, the enthusiast? No: a logical, intuitive artist, crazy about aesthetics, solitary but never alone. Taste for power? No: the tribe responds with a "construction without a body" to the fragility of the biological, close in this way to the Zen which inspired Steve Jobs, the inventor of the microphone. Savior of "mythical sacred time", the computer scientist is the one through whom order arrives. The rules change, the idea of rule is established, spreads and reassures... ", Renaud Zuppinger, Le Monde Diplomatique, April, 1991 (Own translation). See:

https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1991/04/ZUPPINGER/43422

The Conversation, March 15, 2023, Gods in the Machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions. ".. We are about to witness the birth of a new kind of religion. In the next few years, or perhaps even months, we will see the emergence of Sects devoted to the worship of artificial intelligence (AI). The latest generation of AI-powered chatbots, trained on large language models, have left their early users awestruck —and sometimes terrified — by their power. These are the same sublime emotions that bind at the heart of our experience of the divine. People already seek religious meaning from very diverse sources. There are, for instance, multiple religions that worship extra-terrestrials or their teachings. As these chatbots come to be used by billions of people, it is inevitable that some of these users will see the AIs as higher beings. We must prepare for the implications." See:

https://theconversation.com/gods-in-the-machine-the-rise-of-artificial-intelligence-may-result-in-new-religions-201068

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In his recent article "Being alive to the world: an artist's perspective on predictive processing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 379(1895), 2024", Pepperell, R. considers predictive processing (PP) from the perspective of an artist who also conducts scientific research into art and perception. The author writes in the ultimate conclusion of the article "..as I hope I have shown here, merely being is not enough. The dissonant yet powerful experiences afforded by looking at certain art objects, and indeed by looking at the world in general, can intensify this sense of being in ways that give our lives the value and purpose that make them worth living. This might help us to understand some of the ‘mystery of appearance’ and what it means to exist at all." Available on:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.2022.0429

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“Indigenous people from all over the world have proven that with time they are adaptive to change and are still able to maintain the integrity of their unique cultures. As the wider community comes to respect and learn from its Indigenous people, there will be a greater understanding of the delicate balance needed in order to ensure our future”. From: Fischer, M. (2023). At the Pivot of East and West: Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts. Duke University Press.

Available on:

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/75356/1/Fischer_9781478093756_text.pdf

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture

This "philosophical" thought by Rabelais "Wisdom cannot enter into an evil spirit, and Science without conscience is but ruin of the soul", taken from Pantagruel, his major work (own translation from French), can be considered as the keystone of what would be called "Scientific Morality".

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Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) have received paramount interest in Computer Science over the last decade. In particular in Machine Learning tasks. The review by Franceschelli, G., & Musolesi, M. (2024). "Reinforcement Learning for Generative AI: State of the Art, Opportunities and Open Research Challenges. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 79, 417-446.",

presents the state-of-the-art, analyses open research questions, and discusses challenges and shortcomings. Available on: https://www.jair.org/index.php/jair/article/download/15278/27007

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The just-published book by Menon, D. M., & Taha, A. (Eds.),2024, Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics. Taylor & Francis" is about "the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global South: India, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, and Egypt..."

Readable in parts on: https://books.google.com/books?hl=fr&lr=&id=a_zwEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT9&dq=%22paradox%22+%22conscience%22+%22art%22+%22aesthetics%22&ots=kKeP1icnDF&sig=Pc_Kv67YEJgOLRSxWsLipqY1dxY

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The volume by Smith, Alexandra, and Olga Sobolev (eds), "Film Adaptations of Russian Classics: Dialogism and Authorship (Edinburgh Scholarship Online, 18 Jan. 2024" "examines a representative selection of screen adaptations of Russian literary texts (by Goncharov, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Tolstoy), which constitute the hallmark of the Russian cultural brand, infallibly finding favour with audiences in Russia and in the West."

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The System of Khettaras in Morocco, from the 10th Century to the Present Day. https://www.watermuseums.net/campaigns/valuing-ancient-water-cultures/moroccan-khettaras/

"The khettaras, or draining galleries, have been for centuries ingenious systems for the most efficient and effective management of water resources in the arid regions of Morocco. Etymologically, the term khettara means "which makes water flow by gravity in small flows". The technique is ancient, described as a Persian invention that dates back to more than 2,500 years ago in the Almoravid era. In the Middle Ages, during the Islamic conquest, it spread throughout the southern Mediterranean."

https://iwaponline.com/ws/article-abstract/13/6/1452/25350/Protection-and-performance-of-the-ancestral-water

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Nausea (French: La Nausée) "is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. It is Sartre's first novel.... It comprises the thoughts and subjective experiences—in a personal diary format—of Antoine Roquentin, a melancholic and socially isolated intellectual .. Roquentin's growing alienation and disillusionment coincide with an increasingly intense experience of revulsion, which he calls "the nausea", in which the people and things around him seem to lose all their familiar and recognizable qualities. ... Sartre originally titled the novel Melancholia, based on the engraving Melencolia by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (an enigmatic and gloomy winged female figure thought to be a personification of melancholia – melancholy) It was at first refused by the Nouvelle Revue Française (N.R.F.)... In 1937, however, the imprint's publisher, Gaston Gallimard, accepted it and suggested the title La Nausée. The novel has been translated into English by Lloyd Alexander as The Diary of Antoine Roquentin and by Robert Baldick as Nausea."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausea_(novel)

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“Human-AI interaction the design of machines will need to account for the irrational behavior of humans” This is the paramount IDEA which emanates from the review by Macmillan-Scott, O., & Musolesi, M. (2023). (Ir)rationality in AI: State of the Art, Research Challenges and Open Questions. arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.17165. Available on: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.17165.pdf

One can read within the conclusion: "The question of interacting with irrational agents is crucial not only among machines, but also because humans often act in irrational ways. Human-AI interaction is a key aspect of today's AI systems, namely with the case of systems based on large language models and their widespread use. Cognitive biases may in some instances be leveraged to improve the performance of artificial agents, whereas in human-AI interaction the design of machines will need to account for the irrational behavior of humans"

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Raphael_Enthoven_thinks_that_a_machine_will_never_be_a_philosopher_Do_you_think_so

Holland, S. (2023). Make Art, Not War, Toward an Aesthetic of Just Peace, In A Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace: Global Mennonite Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Nonviolence, Fernando, Nina Schroeder-van ‘t Schip, Andrés Pacheco-Lozano (Editors). "This edited volume includes contributions by scholars, ministers, artists, and NGO workers from around the world who are interested in topics of Mennonitism, peacebuilding, and theologies of nonviolence. The papers published together here reflect the richness and diversity of peacebuilding interests and approaches within the current global Mennonite family and offer interdisciplinary explorations of peace and conflict with attention to historical, theological, and lived perspectives. The book includes papers based upon research and insights that were shared at the Second Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival (2019) at Mennorode in the Netherlands. The findings presented here are structured thematically with attention to key points of current concern and research—including, among others, studies on historical and current peacebuilding efforts pertaining to migration and refugee care, ecological justice, gender justice, interreligious dialogue, church-state relations, and racial justice."

Readable on:

https://books.google.tn/books?hl=fr&lr=&id=cg-4EAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA114&dq=%22aesthetics%22+%22ideology%22+%22peace%22&ots=YwwYeA8Xo7&sig=PYOQs1bJ6OfORIuNSVa74YXtX4E&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22aesthetics%22%20%22ideology%22%20%22peace%22&f=false

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In Ukraine, War, Love, Olena Stiazhkina depicts day-to-day developments in and around her beloved hometown Donetsk during Russia’s 2014 invasion and occupation of the Ukrainian city. An award-winning fiction writer, Stiazhkina chronicles an increasingly harrowing series of events with sarcasm, anger, humor, and love.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674291690

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Released 3 days ago. The paper by Maci, S. M., Plagiarism, Fraud, Retracted Papers, and Ethics in the Post-Pandemic Era: The State of the Art. Medical Discourse and Communication, 28-40, 2024, reports the state-of-the-art about plagiarism and retractions. One may read there: "The number of articles retracted by scientific journals had increased 10-fold during the previous 10 years. Fraud accounted for some 60% of those retractions. However, retraction may be due to other reasons. For instance, during the pandemic surge, retractions were necessary because the novelty of the virus made scientists to continuously update their knowledge about it. Furthermore, the more scientists published papers about Coronavirus-19, the quicker was the publication progress. The need for having up-to-date information about modelling epidemic, controlling spread, diagnostic and testing, as well as mortality, on the one hand has caused an augmented speed on typical peer-review systems (the hardest to sustain ever); on the other hand, a more in-depth knowledge about the virus itself led to retract papers whenever any information about it was overpassed by new knowledge."

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Ockham's razor principle raises the general concept of "the true, the good, and the beautiful" and takes us to enlightenment philosophy. When Ockham's razor operates, only the essentials remain to represent things and describe phenomena: This is the “Principle of the Best” stated by Leibniz in a beautiful text: “Whence it follows that God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking…”. By applying this principle to knowledge Leibnitz declares “power and knowledge are perfections, and, insofar as they belong to God, they do not have limits”.

Miriam Makeba (1932–2008), is an inspirational South African female artist, renowned for her singing career and anti-apartheid activism. She was dubbed “Mama Africa”. The study [1] by Fouché et al, 2023, "Zenzile Miriam Makeba: A Psychobiography of “Mama Africa” from an Integrated African Psychology Perspective" reconstructs the life of Miriam Makeba and shows how she became "an international symbol of hope, peace, and empathy due to her involvement in humanitarianism. These characteristics of her engagement align closely with "the Concept of Ubuntu which implies having compassion, care, empathy, and respect for others".

[1] Fouché, P.J.P., Labuscagne, W., Naidoo, P. (2023) "Zenzile Miriam Makeba: A Psychobiography of “Mama Africa” from an Integrated African Psychology Perspective. In: Mayer, CH., van Niekerk, R., Fouché, P.J., Ponterotto, J.G. (eds) Beyond WEIRD: Psychobiography in Times of Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Springer

About the volume

Focuses on psychobiography of extraordinary non-WEIRD individuals

Includes voices from marginalized cultures in Western and non-Western regions

Provides new directions to research by including a diverse group of top scholars across the world

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/USA--Europe--Africa_Je_taime_moi_non_plus

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_and_history_serving_political_and_ideological_narratives

The Handbook on European Union Climate Change Policy and Politics [1] provides a critical assessment of current and emerging challenges facing the EU in committing to and delivering increasingly ambitious climate policy objectives. Highlighting the importance of topics such as finance and investment, litigation, ‘hard to abate’ sectors, and negative emissions, it offers an up-to-date exploration of the complexities of climate politics and policy making

[1] Rayner, T., Szulecki, K., Jordan, A. J., & Oberthür, S. (Eds.). (2023). Handbook on European Union climate change policy and politics. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Book Rayner et el Handbook on EU CC Policy and Politics.2023

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/USA--Europe--Africa_Je_taime_moi_non_plus

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture

This is a remarkable thesis by Helliwell (2022), with the evocative title: "Art-ificial: The Philosophy of AI Art", submitted to the University of Kent for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History and Philosophy of Art.

Excerpt: "This thesis aims to contribute to a novel area of philosophical work: the philosophy of AI art. AI art is proliferating online and increasingly in the world of art. The growing presence of works made by (or with) artificial intelligence has led to a clamor of questions such as 'Is AI art really art?' and 'can AI be truly creative?'. As yet, these questions have barely been tackled in the philosophical literature, especially in aesthetics. This thesis aims to address this gap. This thesis starts by establishing what we mean by 'AI art' by examining examples of AI works and the technological underpinnings of these systems. Existing work on the topic of AI art is explained. In particular, Mark Coeckelbergh's three questions on AI art scaffold the first three chapters of the thesis: 'can machines create art?', 'can machines create art?' and 'can machines create art?'.."

Available on: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/105246/1/105ALICE_C_HELLIWELL_-_THESIS_-_PHILOSOPHY_OF_AI_ART_-_KAR_UPLOAD_REDACTED.pdf

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Raphael_Enthoven_thinks_that_a_machine_will_never_be_a_philosopher_Do_you_think_so

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_Conscience

"Human artists are no longer in the centre. Both humans and machines are co-performers; the image – sometimes a work of art – is the result of their co-performance(s)." Excerpt from the paper by Coeckelbergh, M. (2023). "The work of art in the age of AI Image Generation: Aesthetics and human-technology relations as process and performance. Journal of Human-Technology Relations, 1." Available on: https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/article/download/7025/5598

One may read within the conclusion of the article "To conclude, my application of standard criteria from aesthetics and philosophy of art has shown that there are sufficient arguments to say that AI image generation can in principle create art (which does not mean every image generated in this way is actually art) – unless, of course, one holds on to a traditional romantic idea of art and artists. Moreover, the process of artistic creation in the case of technologies such as DALL-E can be seen as a multi-step, sequential process of poietic performances involving humans and non-humans and leading to the emergence of new artistic (quasi)subjects, objects, and roles in the process: the human becomes a participant in a process (as text prompt creator, as art critic, as a philosopher of art, etc.) and the AI becomes more than just a machine...."

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Raphael_Enthoven_thinks_that_a_machine_will_never_be_a_philosopher_Do_you_think_so

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Art_of_State-of-the-Art_on_Science_Knowledge

"There are various examples of how to cheat using AI that students or practitioners may use as a deceptive method of creating a misconduct. The first question is whether this is ‘‘plagiarism’’ ?..." In their recent and yet well-referenced paper "Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Plagiarism and Basic Honesty: Comment. Cel. Mol. Bioeng. 16, 173–174 (2023)", the authors (Kleebayoon, A., & Wiwanitkit, V. ) attempt to bring elements of thoughts on this important issue.

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Scientific_Integrity_Research_Ethics_and_Higher_Education_Deontology_The_Senior_Scholars_Duty

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Raphael_Enthoven_thinks_that_a_machine_will_never_be_a_philosopher_Do_you_think_so

In his book "Art of Suicide, Reaktion Books, 2001" Ron Brown "tracks the changes surrounding the perception of suicide into the pivotal Romantic era, with its notions of the "man of feeling". Presentation by the Editor: The Art of Suicide is a history of the visual representation of suicide from the ancient world to its decriminalization in the 20th century. After looking at instances of voluntary death in ancient Greece, Ron Brown discusses the contrast between the extraordinary absence of such events in early Christianity and the proliferation of images of biblical suicides in the late medieval era. He emphasizes how differing attitudes to suicide in the early modern world slowly merged, and pays particular attention to the one-time chasm between so-called heroic suicide and self-destruction as a "crying crime".

See:

https://www.google.tn/books/edition/Art_of_Suicide/VPj9daGFkoYC?hl=fr&gbpv=1

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Could_Suicide_Death_Penalty_and_Euthanasia_be_Rational_and_Morally_Defensible

In these times, when we hear the drums of war beating, it is not superfluous to reread the book by Hallett, B., 1998 "The lost art of declaring war. University of Illinois Press."

About the book: Historically, it has been assumed that war is violence and declarations of war are simply public announcements that serve to initiate combat. Brien Hallett denies both assumptions and claims that war is policy, not violence. The Lost Art of Declaring War analyzes the crucial differences between combat and war and convincingly argues that the power to "declare" war is in reality the power to compose a text, draft a document, write a denunciation. Once written, the declaration then serves three functions: to articulate the political purposes of the war, to guide and direct military operations, and to establish the boundary between justified combat and unjustified devastation.

Hallett sounds a clarion call urging the people and their representatives to take up the challenge and write fully reasoned declarations of war. Then, and only then, can a civilized nation like the United States lay claim to being fully democratic, not only in peacetime, but in wartime as well. "Brien Hallett has fashioned an original, incisive, and powerful argument for the proper standards for going to war. Tightly reasoned throughout and well timed to address the conceptual confusion that now reigns." --Louis Fisher, author of Presidential War Power

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/War_Peace

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_and_history_serving_political_and_ideological_narratives

The just-released publication by Wirjawan, Gita. “The Paradox of Sustainability: A Critique of the Modern World’s Approach to Sustainable Development, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center working paper, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 2024", analyzes the paradox of sustainability that stems from "the high expectations placed upon developed and developing nations' environmental and economic progress... While developed countries are responsible for the vast majority of historical carbon emissions, developing countries attempting to modernize and feed themselves are under pressure to curb emissions and pursue low-carbon development trajectories..."

Available on:

https://fsi9-prod.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2024-03/Paradox%20of%20Sustainability%20final.pdf

Cover: Workers break down coal at a coal yard near a mine on November 23, 2021, in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, India (Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images).

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Sciences_Paradoxes