Everett III (1973), Hugh, and Bryce S Dewitt, Neill Graham (editors), The Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, Princeton University Press 1973 Jacket: 'A novel interpretation of quantum mechanics, first proposed in brief form by Hugh Everett in 1957, forms the nucleus around which this book has developed. The volume contains Dr Everett's short paper from 1957, "'Relative State' formulation of quantum mechanics" and a far longer exposition of his interpretation entitled "The Theory of the Universal Wave Function" never before published. In addition other papers by Wheeler, DeWitt, Graham, Cooper and van Vechten provide further discussion of the same theme. Together they constitute virtually the entire world output of scholarly commentary on the Everett interpretation.' 
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Miles (1996), Jack, God: A Biography, Vintage Books 1996 Jacket: 'Jack Miles's remarkable work examines the hero of the Old Testament . . . from his first appearance as Creator to his last as Ancient of Days. . . . We see God torn by conflicting urges. To his own sorrow, he is by turns destructive and creative, vain and modest, subtle and naive, ruthless and tender, lawful and lawless, powerful yet powerless, omniscient and blind.' 
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Archie Roach, Took The Children Away (30th Anniversary Edition) - Official Video , ' 8 Oct 2020: To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Charcoal Lane, Archie Roach brings you a new version of the Took The Children Away, recorded at his kitchen table with Stephen Magnusson and Sam Anning. back

Jeffrey Nicholls (1987), A theory of Peace, ' The argument: I began to think about peace in a very practical way during the Viet Nam war. I was the right age to be called up. I was exempted because I was a clergyman, but despite the terrors that war held for me, I think I might have gone. It was my first whiff of the force of patriotism. To my amazement, it was strong enough to make even me face death.
In the Church, I became embroiled in a deeper war. Not a war between goodies and baddies, but the war between good and evil that lies at the heart of all human consciousness. Existence is a struggle. We need all the help we can get. Religion is part of that help and theology is the scientific foundation of religion.' back

List of human cell types - Wikipedia, List of human cell types - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' The adult human body is estimated to contain about 30 trillion (3×10^13) human cells, with the number varying between 20 and 40 trillion depending on factors such as sex, age, and weight. Additionally, there are approximately an equal number of bacterial cells. The exact count of human cells has not yet been empirically measured in its entirety and is estimated using different approaches based on smaller samples of empirical observation. It is generally assumed that these cells share features with each other and thus may be organized as belonging to a smaller number of types.' back

Mémoire - Wikipedia, Mémoire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' In French culture, the word mémoire, as in un mémoire ("a memory" – indefinite article), reflects the writer's own experiences and memories. The word has no direct English translation.' back

Nils Eckstein et al (2023_05_10), Neurotransmitter Classification from Electron Microscopy Images at Synaptic Sites in Drosophila Melanogaster, 'High-resolution electron microscopy of nervous systems enables the reconstruction of connectomes. A key piece of missing information from connectomes is the synaptic sign. We show that for D. melanogaster, artificial neural networks can predict the transmitter type released at synapses from electron micrographs and thus add putative signs to connections. Our network discriminates between six transmitters (acetylcholine, glutamate, GABA, serotonin, dopamine, octopamine) with an average accuracy of 87%/94% for synapses/entire neurons. We developed an explainability method to reveal which features our network is using and found significant ultrastructural differences between the classical transmitters. We predict transmitters in two connectomes and characterize morphological and connection properties of tens of thousands of neurons classed by predicted transmitter expression. We find that hemilineages in D. melanogaster largely express only one fastacting transmitter among their neurons. Furthermore, we show that neurons with different transmitters may differ in features like polarization and projection targets.' back

Philipp Schlegel et al (2024_10_02), Whole-brain annotation and multi-connectome cell typing of Drosophila, ' The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has emerged as a key model organism in neuroscience, in large part due to the concentration of collaboratively generated molecular, genetic and digital resources available for it. Here we complement the approximately 140,000 neuron FlyWire whole-brain connectome1 with a systematic and hierarchical annotation of neuronal classes, cell types and developmental units (hemilineages). Of 8,453 annotated cell types, 3,643 were previously proposed in the partial hemibrain connectome2, and 4,581 are new types, mostly from brain regions outside the hemibrain subvolume. Although nearly all hemibrain neurons could be matched morphologically in FlyWire, about one-third of cell types proposed for the hemibrain could not be reliably reidentified. We therefore propose a new definition of cell type as groups of cells that are each quantitatively more similar to cells in a different brain than to any other cell in the same brain, and we validate this definition through joint analysis of FlyWire and hemibrain connectomes. Further analysis defined simple heuristics for the reliability of connections between brains, revealed broad stereotypy and occasional variability in neuron count and connectivity, and provided evidence for functional homeostasis in the mushroom body through adjustments of the absolute amount of excitatory input while maintaining the excitation/inhibition ratio. Our work defines a consensus cell type atlas for the fly brain and provides both an intellectual framework and open-source toolchain for brain-scale comparative connectomics. back

Rod Stewart (2013), Live from the Troubador 2013: You Can't Stop Me Now, ' Set List:
1. 0.00 Can't Stop Me Now
2. 5.10: Forever Young
3. It's Over
4. Rhythm of My Heart
5. Finest Woman
6. You Wear It Well
7. She Makes Me Happy
8. Have I Told You Lately
9. Brighton Beach
10. Sexual Religion
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Sebastian Smee (2024_10_03), Life and death go to war in this stunningly beautiful Klimt painting, ' Hope, in German, is “Hoffnung.” But traditionally, “Hoffnung” can also mean to be expecting; to be pregnant. Around the turn of the century, in his most radical, philosophically restless period, Klimt had made several images of pregnant women. Two in particular had stirred up serious trouble. In the late 1890s, as a young prodigy and feted winner of the Emperor’s Prize, Klimt had led a group of younger artists away from an artistic establishment to form the Vienna Secession. Under the influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Wagner, and in the same city where Sigmund Freud was articulating new ideas about sexuality, instinct and the mind’s attempts to cope with reality, Klimt was drawn increasingly to psychosexual subject matter.' back

Sven Dorkenwald et al (2024_10_02), Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain, 'Connections between neurons can be mapped by acquiring and analysing electron microscopic brain images. In recent years, this approach has been applied to chunks of brains to reconstruct local connectivity maps that are highly informative1,2,3,4,5,6, but nevertheless inadequate for understanding brain function more globally. Here we present a neuronal wiring diagram of a whole brain containing 5 × 107 chemical synapses7 between 139,255 neurons reconstructed from an adult female Drosophila melanogaster8,9. The resource also incorporates annotations of cell classes and types, nerves, hemilineages and predictions of neurotransmitter identities10,11,12. Data products are available for download, programmatic access and interactive browsing and have been made interoperable with other fly data resources. We derive a projectome—a map of projections between regions—from the connectome and report on tracing of synaptic pathways and the analysis of information flow from inputs (sensory and ascending neurons) to outputs (motor, endocrine and descending neurons) across both hemispheres and between the central brain and the optic lobes. Tracing from a subset of photoreceptors to descending motor pathways illustrates how structure can uncover putative circuit mechanisms underlying sensorimotor behaviours. The technologies and open ecosystem reported here set the stage for future large-scale connectome projects in other species.' back

Umicore, Recycling today, ' Umicore, which describes itself as a leading circular materials technology company with expertise in material science, chemistry and metallurgy, has reported lower revenues for the first half of 2024 relative to the same period in 2023. The Brussels-based company's 1.8 billion euros ($19.6 billion) in revenues through the first half of this year were more than 15 percent lower than the 2.1 billion euros ($22.8 billion) it reported in the first half of 2023. . . . Umicore saw revenues across its four business groups—Battery Materials, Automotive Catalysts, Specialty Materials and Recycling—decline in the first half of 2024, but Battery Materials experienced the most pronounced decline, down 33 percent year over year, prompting the company to begin a strategic review of this business group. back

Wilde (film) - Wikipedia, Wilde (film) - Wikipedia, the free ecyclopedia, ' Wilde is a 1997 British biographical romantic drama film directed by Brian Gilbert. The screenplay, written by Julian Mitchell, is based on Richard Ellmann's 1987 biography of Oscar Wilde. It stars Stephen Fry in the title role, with Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma Jones, Judy Parfitt, Michael Sheen, Zoë Wanamaker, and Tom Wilkinson in supporting roles.' back