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Letter from N.A. O'Donnell to Fr. McMahon
No full textHolograph letter from N.A. O'Donnell, Holy Cross Convent, Great Cross Hall Street, Liverpool (England), to Fr. McMahon [Rome], introducing Mr. Malone who is coming to Rome as correspondent of the Freeman and wishes to meet Hagan. Malone was once president of the Liverpool University Catholic Students' Society. (Covering letter not extant.
John Brown White Correspondence, N. A. Wilcox
No full textPhotocopy of handwritten correspondence between John Brown White, the third president of Wake Forest College, and N.A. Wilco
First records of Hamacantha species from seamounts off eastern Australia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Merliida), with description of four new species
No full textEkins, Merrick, Baker, Soraya, Hooper, John N.A. (2023): First records of Hamacantha species from seamounts off eastern Australia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Merliida), with description of four new species. Zootaxa 5318 (3): 382-400, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5318.3.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5318.3.
“Logic is the beginning of wisdom … not the end”: Using Star Trek to Teach Scientific Thinking
Get PDFTo paraphrase Batman: "[humans] are a superstitious and cowardly lot". We cling to our preconceptions against all evidence, literally unable to see the unexpected forest when we find that our field of view is crowded with an unanticipated number of trees. Our preconceptions and other cognitive biases weaken our individual ability to perceive the world around us. Telling fact from fantasy requires cooperation and formal, unintuitive thought. Scientific thinking may be the single greatest intellectual tool ever developed. Contrary to popular belief, it is not a way of proving things true, but a way of proving them false. It is not the work of a singular intellect, but a social activity. It is a method of altering the inherent iterative cycles of bias reinforcement and leaps of faith that we consider intuitive thinking, so that we explicitly define the weaknesses in our own ideas and count on others to help us find the flaws we've missed. But how does one teach this unintuitive style of thinking? How do we keep our students from exchanging one set of preconceptions and cognitive shortcuts for another? Personally, I use mental models with which they are already familiar. Personally, I use Star Trek
Drawing Sound in Time: A Commentary on my Recent Music
No full textDrawing Sound in Time reflects on how I have attempted, in the music written over the period of my doctoral studies (2004-2010) to use time as a basis for the mapping of sonic activity and how this aesthetical concern has helped me develop a teleological approach to form and structure. The shaping of time in my work often has its origins in the visual, either from my own drawings or from other visual stimuli. As well as considering the visual appearance of my music, I will draw on the correlation of music and art by abstract painters (most notably Paul Klee) alongside composers Iannis Xenakis and John Cage whose philosophy represent for me a way forward, not only aesthetically but also on a technical level. Additionally, the discussion will refer to astronomy as certain aspects of the subject relate to the development of techniques in my compositional language, and furthermore will often draw on the titles of the pieces (stars and constellations) as a basis for generating materials. I will address in particular the use of coding in my music that is an integral part of the way I work. My commentary will examine the main aspects of my musical language using examples
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New carnivorous sponges and allied species from the Great Australian Bight
No full textEkins, Merrick, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Goudie, Lisa, Hooper, John N.A. (2020): New carnivorous sponges and allied species from the Great Australian Bight. Zootaxa 4878 (2): 240-266, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.
FIGURE 1 in First records of Hamacantha species from seamounts off eastern Australia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Merliida), with description of four new species
No full textFIGURE 1. Sampling sites of Hamacantha species described in this study.Published as part of <i>Ekins, Merrick, Baker, Soraya & Hooper, John N.A., 2023, First records of Hamacantha species from seamounts off eastern Australia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Merliida), with description of four new species, pp. 382-400 in Zootaxa 5318 (3)</i> on page 384, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5318.3.4, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/8166946">http://zenodo.org/record/8166946</a>
Kahlin Compound
No full textKahlin Aboriginal compound. TS on back "The Aboriginal Compound at Darwin May 1930". Stamped "Jack Buscall Darwin N.A."John Oxley Library.Date:1930-0
Integrating problem-based business improvement methods with strengths-based constructionist methods
Get PDFIntegrating problem-based business improvement methods with strenghts-based constructionist methods Dayton, N.A
Rethinking Eurasianism: the Eurasian Union Project of N.A. Nazarbaev
No full textThe article is dedicated to the analysis of basic patterns of the Eurasian Union Project of N.A. Nazarbaev. The author explains the reasons determined absence of interest from the direction of Russian leaders and governments of other CIS’s countries to the initiative of Kazakhstan President in 1990’s and the renewal of Eurasianism in 2000’s. The author also emphasizes the factors defining a special role of Kazakhstan in the processes of integration on the area of Eurasia
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