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The health effects of smoking: misreading the evidence. by Peter D. Finch
No full texttag=1 data=The health effects of smoking: misreading the evidence. by Peter D. Finch.
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tag=10 data=Health promotion policies have popularised the view that smoking is a major cause of fatal disease. Peter Finch argues that evidence cited to show that smoking is harmful to health has been distorted by the anti-smoking lobby in a way that exaggerates the risks and costs associated with smoking.
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tag=13 data=CABHealth promotion policies have popularised the view that smoking is a major cause of fatal disease. Peter Finch argues that evidence cited to show that smoking is harmful to health has been distorted by the anti-smoking lobby in a way that exaggerates the risks and costs associated with smoking
Industrial Wonders and Pitfalls in Agostino della Sala Spada's 'Nel 2073!' and Émile Souvestre's 'Le monde tel qu'il sera en l'an 3000'
No full textHow positive or negative did the distant future appear to creative writers in Italy and France around the time of the Industrial Revolution? As a counterpoint to quantitative extrapolations in reports by the likes of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this chapter advances a qualitative perspective within cultural geography and affective history regarding epoch-making developments five generations ago. I am concerned with two pieces of anticipatory fiction from the mid-1800s that have never been analysed together despite a number of commonalities: Agostino della Sala Spada’s enthusiastic view looking ahead two centuries from 1874, and Émile Souvestre’s cynical perspective extending more than a thousand years from 1846. Six topics guide my close readings of paired extracts from the exploits of Saturnino Saturnini, Maurice, and Marthe: aerial colonization, copy culture, domestic automation, industrial infrastructures, dietary homogenization, and mass machining. In examining similarities and contrasts between depictions surfacing from Italy in its early years as a nation-state and France towards the end of a monarchical order, I remain mindful of the thorny question of societies being shaped by free-market ideologies and trickle-down economics that have been touted as compatible with a sustainable future for our planet
Activity-dependent plasticity in visual forebrain areas of the zebra finch
No full textRollenhagen A, Bischof H-J. Activity-dependent plasticity in visual forebrain areas of the zebra finch. Behavioural Brain Research. 1996;81(1-2):207-213
REWARD-100
No full textREWARD-100 for the arrest and delivery to the undersigned in Trinidad, Colorado, or the arrest and delivery to F. D. Healey, Sheriff, at Beaver City, Oklahoma, on or before Sept. 1, 1896, of the following described individual: Commonly known as Sam Smith, light hair, grey eyes, height about 5 feet and 8 inches, weight 160 pounds, smooth face, age 20 years. When last seen, attired in light checkered suit, a cow¬ boy by occupation. Broke jail at Woodward, Oklahoma Territory, February 26th, 1896. Under conviction for stealing Ike Like's horses and wanted for theft of certain calves.
D. D. FINCH, Sheriff.
March 12th, 189
La retorica di Ulisse contro la pietas, da Dante a Tennyson
No full textIn antiquity, public speaking was based on a set of linguistic strategies for obtaining agreement, with a good command of rhetoric seen as an asset. In the post-classical period, rhetoric was vilified and its status diminished due to the increasing (scientific) demand for tonal neutrality in discourse and the sublimation of oratory into printed material. In principle, Dante would have been respectful of the tradition governing epic speech-making, but ultimately chose to depict Ulysses’ fate in Inferno XXVI as a case of morally suspect rhetoric, exaggerating the hero-sinner’s deceptive skills and wanderlust as concepts antithetical to pietas, the idea of devotion espoused by Aeneas, Virgil’s hero. Tennyson’s depiction of Ulysses conforms in many ways to epic rhetorical conventions, though the post-Romantic incarnation of the Homeric hero does not precisely dovetail with the figure of classical and medieval tradition, instead fitting the Victorian mould of a restless wanderer, more concerned with intellectual pursuits than social pietas and oratorical trickery. By undertaking a comparative analysis of the rhetorical devices and presentation of pietas in these two works, a distilled appreciation of the fluctuating significance of Ulysses and notions of duty from the medieval era to modern times can be achieved
L’Altérité de la nature chez Verlaine dans les ‘Ariettes oubliées’ II, IV, V, et VII
No full textVerlaine’s poetry from 1874 demonstrates a peculiar relationship between the narrator and his environment that emerges in the ‘Ariettes oubliées’ section of Romances sans paroles. Marked by the loss of an affinity between nature and humanity, Ariettes II, IV, V, and VII offer fruitful ground for ecocritical analysis of the alterity of nature and of nature’s role in the formation of poetic values. This article considers the relationship between key ecological concepts and prosody in order to offer an ecopoetic perspective on the tensions between humanity and nature towards the end of the nineteenth century
Introduction: Greening Italian Science Fiction - New Approaches to a Deep-Rooted Genre
No full textIn line with science fiction’s intrinsic intermediality and ecocriticism’s fundamental multidisciplinarity, our volume covers a wide variety of topics and media forms that span comics, music, visual art, prose narratives, cinema, and non-fiction. Our hope is that this innovative exploration of how Italian science fiction has addressed environmental concerns and metabolized ecological changes shall inspire further studies. The following chapters adopt theoretical and methodological perspectives including ecocriticism, ecofeminism, animal studies, posthumanism, eco-media studies, and the energy humanities, entering into conversation with the work of key authors like Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Giorgio Agamben, Anna Tsing, and Timothy Morton. This collective investigation across disciplines is intended as an intervention in debates such as the predicament of petromodernity and the politics of energy transitions, non-human and new materialist ontologies, the history of utopian and dystopian imaginaries, critiques of anthropocentrism, species thinking and ecomodernism, the articulation of planetary and regional struggles for environmental justice, and the construction of post-depletion futures
Gritty Metropoetics in Ada Cambridge’s “London” and Émile Verhaeren’s “Londres”
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Elemental Ecocritique of Normandy’s Industrial-Era Coast in Zola’s La joie de vivre
No full textThis article examines French ecological concerns around the time of the Industrial Revolution in Émile Zola’s La joie de vivre (1884) through the lens of elemental ecocriticism, founded on the four elements categorized in classical antiquity. More-than-human forces on Normandy’s shore are fundamental to Lazare Chanteau’s enterprises regarding L’usine du Trésor and flood defences for Bonneville in the twelfth novel of the Rougon-Macquart saga. An understanding of coastal places on the cusp of modernization can be deepened through a framework at the intersection of biochemistry, regional geography, and the blue humanities. Four interdisciplinary lines of enquiry spanning the novel’s eleven chapters are undertaken to give insights into atmospheric and geophysical conditions as much as sociocultural practices
Editorial:Anglo-, Franco- and Italophone Poetics of Place, 1819-2019
No full textEditorial: Anglo-, Franco- and Italophone Poetics of Place, 1819–201
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