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50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
were directly connected with each other in one cytoplasm. Cajal challenged this view after staining areas of the brain that had less myelin and discovering that neurons were discrete cells. Cajal also discovered that cells transmit electrical signals down the neuron in one direction only. Both Go... | 6,120,200 |
50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
of cognitive neuroscience. Some particularly important results were the demonstration that some tasks are accomplished via discrete processing stages, the study of attention, and the notion that behavioural data do not provide enough information by themselves to explain mental processes. As a res... | 6,120,201 |
50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
and cognitive psychologist George Armitage Miller while sharing a taxi in 1976.
### Brain mapping.
New brain mapping technology, particularly fMRI and PET, allowed researchers to investigate experimental strategies of cognitive psychology by observing brain function. Although this is often thou... | 6,120,202 |
50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
such as mathematical calculations the pulsations of the brain increased locally. Such observations led Mosso to conclude that blood flow of the brain followed function.
# Emergence of a new discipline.
## Birth of cognitive science.
On September 11, 1956, a large-scale meeting of cognitivists ... | 6,120,203 |
50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
field to be referred to as "cognitive science". Behaviorists such as Miller began to focus on the representation of language rather than general behavior. David Marr concluded that one should understand any cognitive process at three levels of analysis. These levels include computational, algorit... | 6,120,204 |
50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
(Neuroscience was not established as a unified discipline until 1971). In the very late 20th century new technologies evolved that are now the mainstay of the methodology of cognitive neuroscience, including TMS (1985) and fMRI (1991). Earlier methods used in cognitive neuroscience include EEG (h... | 6,120,205 |
50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
neuroscience attempts to consolidate data in databases, and form unified descriptive models from various fields and scales: biology, psychology, anatomy, and clinical practice. In 2014, Stanislas Dehaene, Giacomo Rizzolatti and Trevor Robbins, were awarded the Brain Prize "for their pioneering re... | 6,120,206 |
50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
Prize in Physiology or Medicine in the same year with May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain". In 2017, Wolfram Schultz, Peter Dayan and Ray Dolan were awarded the Brain Prize "for their multidisciplinary analysis of brai... | 6,120,207 |
50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
in cats to better understand sensory processing. They performed experiments which demonstrated the specificity of the responding of neurons. Their experiments showed that neurons fired rapidly at some angles, and not so much at others. A difference was also found in light and dark settings. Their... | 6,120,208 |
50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
in the adult brain using a single technology, studies have been diverging in several different directions: exploring the interactions between different brain areas, using multiple technologies and approaches to understand brain functions, and using computational approaches. Advances in non-invasi... | 6,120,209 |
50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
Methods.
Experimental methods of specific psychology fields include:
- Psychophysics
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging
- Electroencephalography
- Electrocorticography
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Computational Modeling
# See also.
- Cognitive biology
- Cognitive psycholog... | 6,120,210 |
50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience" (2nd ed.)
- Bear, M. F., Connors, B. W. & Paradiso M. A.(2007). "Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain" (3rd ed.). pp. 10–11. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
- Churchland, P.S. & Sejnowski, T.J. (1992). "The Computational Brain", The MIT Press, .
- Code, C. (... | 6,120,211 |
50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
(2nd ed.). New York: W.W.Norton.
- Gallistel, R. (2009). "Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience." Wiley-Blackwell .
- Gazzaniga, M. S., "The Cognitive Neurosciences III", (2004), The MIT Press,
- Gazzaniga, M. S., Ed. (1999). "Conversations in th... | 6,120,212 |
50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
Edward L. Wilding, Timothy J. Bussey
- Neuronal Theories of the Brain By Christof Koch, Joel L. Davis
- Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning By Keith James Holyoak, Robert G. Morrison
- Handbook of Mathematical Cognition By Jamie I. D. Campbell
- Cognitive Psychology By Michael W. Eys... | 6,120,213 |
50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
J. Gilhooly
- Variation in Working Memory By Andrew R. A. Conway, et al.
- Memory Capacity By Nelson Cowan
- Cognition and Intelligence By Robert J. Sternberg, Jean E. Pretz
- General Factor of Intelligence By Robert J. Sternberg, Elena Grigorenko
- Neurological Basis of Learning, Developmen... | 6,120,214 |
50326 | Cognitive neuroscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive%20neuroscience | Cognitive neuroscience
What Is Cognitive Neuroscience?, Jamie Ward/Psychology Press
- goCognitive - Educational Tools for Cognitive Neuroscience (including video interviews)
- CogNet, The Brain and Cognitive Sciences Community Online, MIT
- Cognitive Neuroscience Arena, Psychology Press
- Cognitive Neuroscience and... | 6,120,215 |
2313636 | Notional amount | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Notional%20amount | Notional amount
Notional amount
The notional amount (or notional principal amount or notional value) on a financial instrument is the nominal or face amount that is used to calculate payments made on that instrument. This amount generally does not change and is thus referred to as "notional."
# Explanation.
Contrast... | 6,120,216 |
2313636 | Notional amount | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Notional%20amount | Notional amount
acts "as if" it were the principal amount of a bond, hence the term "notional principal amount", abbreviated to "notional".
In simple terms the notional principal amount is essentially how much of the asset or bonds a person has. For example, if a premium bond was bought for £1 then the notional princi... | 6,120,217 |
2313636 | Notional amount | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Notional%20amount | Notional amount
pounds sterling, or any other combination of a number and a currency. Each period's rates are multiplied by the notional principal amount to determine the height and currency of each counter-party's payment. A notional principal amount is the amount used as a reference to calculate the amount of interes... | 6,120,218 |
2313636 | Notional amount | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Notional%20amount | Notional amount
assume the underlying property is the S&P 500 stock index. A would pay B LIBOR times a $100 notional amount plus depreciation, if any, on a $100 notional investment in the S&P 500 index. B would pay A the appreciation, if any, in the same notional S&P 500 investment.
## Equity options.
Shares also hav... | 6,120,219 |
2313636 | Notional amount | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Notional%20amount | Notional amount
option with a strike of $60 for a stock that is currently trading at $60, then you have the same upside potential as someone who holds $6,000 of stock (1 option × 100 multiplier × $60), but you may have paid only $5/share (for a total of $500), so by this measure you have achieved leverage of $6,000/$50... | 6,120,220 |
2313636 | Notional amount | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Notional%20amount | Notional amount
these. Then this gives you the option to pay 100 USD and receive 110 × 100 = 11,000 JPY, so the USD notional is 100 USD, and the JPY notional is 11,000 JPY.
Note that the ratio of notionals is exactly the strike, and thus if you move the strike, you must change one or the other notional. For instance, ... | 6,120,221 |
2313636 | Notional amount | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Notional%20amount | Notional amount
(say for an American USD business, an outflow of 11,000 JPY) it is the "foreign currency" notional that must be fixed.
## ETFs.
Exchange-traded funds track underlying positions, so an investment performs equivalently to purchasing that number of physical positions, though the fund may in fact not dire... | 6,120,222 |
2313636 | Notional amount | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Notional%20amount | Notional amount
fund may in fact not directly purchase the positions, and instead use derivatives (especially futures) to produce the position.
Levered ETFs, notably inverse exchange-traded funds, have the unusual property that their notional changes every day: this is because they pay the compounded daily return, so ... | 6,120,223 |
2313649 | Ndiarème B | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ndiarème%20B | Ndiarème B
Ndiarème B
Ndiarème B is a primary school in Dakar, Senegal, founded in 1996. In 2000, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan used the school to launch the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative. As of 2005, the number of girls attending the school has risen to 49%, compared to 35% when it was foun... | 6,120,224 |
2313624 | Charles August Lindbergh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20August%20Lindbergh | Charles August Lindbergh
Charles August Lindbergh
Charles August Lindbergh (born Carl Månsson; January 20, 1859 – May 24, 1924) was a United States Congressman from Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 1907 to 1917. He opposed American entry into World War I as well as the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. Lindbergh is... | 6,120,225 |
2313624 | Charles August Lindbergh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20August%20Lindbergh | Charles August Lindbergh
United States with his mistress and their illegitimate infant son, Carl, in 1859. Lovisa became Louisa and young Carl became Charles August Lindbergh.
They settled in Melrose, Minnesota and had six more children together. August worked as a farmer and a blacksmith for 26 years before marrying ... | 6,120,226 |
2313624 | Charles August Lindbergh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20August%20Lindbergh | Charles August Lindbergh
a Republican, serving in the 60th, 61st, 62nd, 63rd, and 64th congresses. In 1912, he supported Theodore Roosevelt's unsuccessful third party Progressive bid for the White House. In 1916 he unsuccessfully campaigned for a seat in the United States Senate.
## Isolationist Views and Opposition t... | 6,120,227 |
2313624 | Charles August Lindbergh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20August%20Lindbergh | Charles August Lindbergh
son was aged 16, which meant some possibility of conscription.
In Congress, Lindbergh was one of the first outspoken critics of the Federal Reserve. His stature grew when he was featured in an article in "American Magazine": "It was a Swede from Minnesota who first raised in Congress the hue-a... | 6,120,228 |
2313624 | Charles August Lindbergh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20August%20Lindbergh | Charles August Lindbergh
of the ages is perpetrated by this banking bill." In 1917 Lindbergh brought articles of impeachment against members of the Federal Reserve Board including Paul Warburg and William Proctor Gould Harding, charging that they were involved "...in a conspiracy to violate the Constitution and laws of... | 6,120,229 |
2313624 | Charles August Lindbergh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20August%20Lindbergh | Charles August Lindbergh
the title, "Your Country at War, and What Happens to You After a War" In the first chapter, he wrote, "It is impossible according to the big press to be a true American unless you are pro-British. If you are really for America first, last and all time, and solely for America and for the masses ... | 6,120,230 |
2313624 | Charles August Lindbergh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20August%20Lindbergh | Charles August Lindbergh
which called for government ownership of some agricultural enterprises, such as mills, plants, and grain elevators. Many of his campaign speeches were attended by thousands of supporters. But due to his opposition to American entry into the first World War and his connection to the Socialistic ... | 6,120,231 |
2313624 | Charles August Lindbergh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20August%20Lindbergh | Charles August Lindbergh
Party ticket. Lindbergh's campaign was cut short by his death. He would have been the first Minnesota governor from the party if he had been elected.
# Personal life.
In 1887, Lindbergh married Mary LaFond, with whom he had two daughters, Lillian and Eva. Mary LaFond died in 1898.
In 1901, C... | 6,120,232 |
2313624 | Charles August Lindbergh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20August%20Lindbergh | Charles August Lindbergh
Evangeline began to live in a separate residence in 1909. They separated in 1918, their only child being the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, who also became an antiwar leader.
# Death.
Charles August Lindbergh died in 1924 in Crookston, Minnesota of brain cancer. He has a memorial plaque in... | 6,120,233 |
2313624 | Charles August Lindbergh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20August%20Lindbergh | Charles August Lindbergh
h died in 1924 in Crookston, Minnesota of brain cancer. He has a memorial plaque in the columbarium at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis. According to his wishes, son Charles scattered his ashes over the place near Sauk River where the first Lindbergh home once stood.
# References.
## Bibliogr... | 6,120,234 |
2313626 | Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lázaro%20Cárdenas,%20Michoacán | Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán
Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán
Lázaro Cárdenas ( ) is a port city that with its surrounding municipality is located in the southern part of the Mexican state of Michoacán. It was formerly known as Los Llanitos, but changed its name as a tribute to Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, a Michoacán-born politi... | 6,120,235 |
2313626 | Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lázaro%20Cárdenas,%20Michoacán | Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán
Las Guacamayas, La Orilla, and La Mira.
# History.
When known as Los Llanitos, it formed part of the municipality of Arteaga. In 1932 it was given town status and named Melchor Ocampo, after politician Melchor Ocampo. On April 12, 1937, during the governorship of José María Mendoza Prado, t... | 6,120,236 |
2313626 | Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lázaro%20Cárdenas,%20Michoacán | Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán
at the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, originating in Hong Kong, after traveling through the Port of Long Beach with 19 tons of pseudoephedrine, a raw material needed for the manufacturing process of the drug methamphetamine. The Chinese owner Zhenli Ye Gon was found to have $206 million at his Mexi... | 6,120,237 |
2313626 | Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lázaro%20Cárdenas,%20Michoacán | Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán
a capacity of 2.2 million TEU annually. Cargo moves to and from the port by road and rail equally, with rail service provided exclusively by Kansas City Southern de México. The port is expected to become a major container facility due to congestion at the U.S. ports of Los Angeles and Long Be... | 6,120,238 |
2313626 | Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lázaro%20Cárdenas,%20Michoacán | Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán
handle the anticipated increase in volume of goods bound for the United States using this transportation corridor. If a proposed government-backed Pacific port is built at Punta Colonet, Baja California, goods flowing to U.S. states like Arizona and Nevada could bypass the congested Los Angel... | 6,120,239 |
2313647 | Quarry Hill Creative Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quarry%20Hill%20Creative%20Center | Quarry Hill Creative Center
Quarry Hill Creative Center
Quarry Hill Creative Center, in Rochester, Vermont, is Vermont's oldest alternative living group or community. It was founded in 1946 by Irving Fiske, a playwright, writer, and public speaker; and his wife, Barbara Hall Fiske, an artist and one of the few female ... | 6,120,240 |
2313647 | Quarry Hill Creative Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quarry%20Hill%20Creative%20Center | Quarry Hill Creative Center
Many people built houses at Quarry Hill, with an agreement with the Fiskes that the land would continue to be owned by the family. Children at Quarry Hill and attended its private K-12 school, the North Hollow School. The school was based on the principles of the Fiske family and of Summerhi... | 6,120,241 |
2313647 | Quarry Hill Creative Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quarry%20Hill%20Creative%20Center | Quarry Hill Creative Center
He often said Barbara Fiske was one of his art teachers; William Fiske (1954-2008), the Fiskes' son, was one of his closest friends; and he called Isabella Fiske McFarlin till almost the end of his life (he committed suicide in 2010). Another resident who has achieved prominence is Alan Stir... | 6,120,242 |
2313647 | Quarry Hill Creative Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quarry%20Hill%20Creative%20Center | Quarry Hill Creative Center
on July 18, 2008, in his sleep, in Burlington, VT. Barbara Fiske married Donald W. Calhoun, a sociologist, Quaker (as Barbara had become in the 1980s) and professor of sociology at the University of Miami.
Isabella Fiske, the Fiskes' daughter, had become friends with many underground cartoo... | 6,120,243 |
2313647 | Quarry Hill Creative Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quarry%20Hill%20Creative%20Center | Quarry Hill Creative Center
Hill residents.
Spiegelman and others drew a parallel between Irving Fiske and Crumb's mischievous "Guru", Mr. Natural.
Irving Fiske died of a stroke on April 25, 1990, in Ocala Florida. Barbara Fiske continued to live and teach art at Quarry Hill into her 90s, eventually moving to a nursi... | 6,120,244 |
2313647 | Quarry Hill Creative Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quarry%20Hill%20Creative%20Center | Quarry Hill Creative Center
a 'Hippy'," "Ocala Star-Banner" (May 25, 1971).
- Fiske, Ladybelle (with photography by William Fiske). "Al Stirt, Bowlmaker," "Vermont Life" (Winter 1978)
- Hemingway, Sam. "Leaderless Commune Seeks Peace," "The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press" (May 6, 1990).
- McFarlin, Isabella Fiske, et a... | 6,120,245 |
2313647 | Quarry Hill Creative Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quarry%20Hill%20Creative%20Center | Quarry Hill Creative Center
Gene Sessions, and P. Jeffrey Potash. "Freedom and Unity: A History of Vermont" (Montpelier, Vermont: Vermont Historical Society, 2003) — Sherman, a respected historian and teacher at Vermont College, credits Quarry Hill and The North Hollow School with being a model for the many alternative... | 6,120,246 |
2313647 | Quarry Hill Creative Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quarry%20Hill%20Creative%20Center | Quarry Hill Creative Center
(Pantheon, 2013)-- " "My hippie girlfriend's father, Irving Fiske, the Mr. Natural of the commune I was involved with." pp 24–25
- "Fiske Family Women Honored," "The Herald of Randolph" (Feb. 21, 2002).
- "Vermont Magazine" (May/June 2008) — on Rochester's art culture and Quarry Hill's inf... | 6,120,247 |
2313647 | Quarry Hill Creative Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quarry%20Hill%20Creative%20Center | Quarry Hill Creative Center
all Fiske Calhoun and Isabella Fiske McFarlin.
- Fiske family letters and papers; Isabella Fiske McFarlin's diaries, letters, papers and videotapes with friends and family.
# External links.
- Quarry Hill blog
- Quarry Hill on Facebook
- "Freedom and Unity: The Vermont Movie" website — ... | 6,120,248 |
2313685 | Political endorsement | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Political%20endorsement | Political endorsement
Political endorsement
Political endorsement is the action of publicly declaring one's personal or group's support of a candidate for elected office. In a multiparty system, where one party considers that it does not have enough support to win power, just prior to the election, the official repres... | 6,120,249 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
John Polkinghorne
John Charlton Polkinghorne (born 16 October 1930) is an English theoretical physicist, theologian, writer and Anglican priest. A prominent and leading voice explaining the relationship between science and religion, he was professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cambri... | 6,120,250 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
An Unexpected Kinship" (2005), "Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion" (2007), and "Questions of Truth" (2009). "The Polkinghorne Reader" (edited by Thomas Jay Oord) provides key excerpts from Polkinghorne's most influential books. He was knighted in 1997 and in 2002 received the... | 6,120,251 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
before John's birth. Peter died in 1942 while flying for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
He was educated at the local primary school in Street, Somerset, then was taught by a friend of the family at home, and later at a Quaker school. When he was 11 he went to Elmhurst Grammar School... | 6,120,252 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
group led by Paul Dirac.
# Career.
## Physics.
He joined the Christian Union of UCCF while at Cambridge and met his future wife, Ruth Martin, another member of the Union and also a mathematics student. They married on 26 March 1955, and at the end of that year sailed from Liverpool to New York. Pol... | 6,120,253 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
a professorship in mathematical physics, a position he held until 1979, his students including Brian Josephson and Martin Rees. For 25 years, he worked on theories about elementary particles, played a role in the discovery of the quark, and researched the analytic and high-energy properties of Feynman... | 6,120,254 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
his best mathematical work was probably behind him; Christianity had always been central to his life, so ordination offered an attractive second career. He resigned his chair in 1979 to study at Westcott House, Cambridge, an Anglican theological college, becoming an ordained priest on 6 June 1982 (Tri... | 6,120,255 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
of Liverpool Cathedral from 1994 to 2005.
## Awards.
In 1997 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE), although as an ordained priest in the Church of England, he is not styled as "Sir John Polkinghorne". He is an Honorary Fellow of St Chad's College, Durham and awarde... | 6,120,256 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
Human Genetics Commission. He served as chairman of the governors of The Perse School from 1972 to 1981. He is a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge and was for 10 years a canon theologian of Liverpool Cathedral. He is a founding member of the Society of Ordained Scientists and also of the Internatio... | 6,120,257 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
Religion and Its Significance for the Academy" and an "East–West Dialogue" with Yang Chen-ning, a nobel laureate in physics. He is a member of staff of the Psychology and Religion Research Group at Cambridge University. He is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge.
# Ideas.
Polkinghorn... | 6,120,258 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
"turned his collar around" he did not stop seeking truth. He believes the philosopher of science who has most helpfully struck the balance between the "critical" and "realism" aspects of this is Michael Polanyi. He argues that there are five points of comparison between the ways in which science and t... | 6,120,259 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
from Laplace to Richard Dawkins should be replaced by an understanding that most of nature is cloud-like rather than clock-like. He regards the mind, soul and body as different aspects of the same underlying reality—"dual aspect monism"—writing that "there is only one stuff in the world (not two—the m... | 6,120,260 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
are possible, there may be higher levels of causation that choose which one occurs.
Sometimes Christianity seems to him to be just too good to be true, but when this sort of doubt arises he says to himself, "All right then, deny it," and writes that he knows this is something he could never do.
## O... | 6,120,261 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
have reason for believing in such a thing?" He is "cautious about our powers to assess coherence," pointing out that in 1900 a "competent ... undergraduate could have demonstrated the 'incoherence'" of quantum ideas. He suggests that "the nearest analogy in the physical world [to God] would be ... the... | 6,120,262 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
incompleteness theory, he said: "If we cannot prove the consistency of arithmetic it seems a bit much to hope that God's existence is easier to deal with," concluding that God is "ontologically necessary, but not logically necessary." He "does not assert that God's existence can be demonstrated in a l... | 6,120,263 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
world and general relativity goes far beyond anything of relevance to survival fitness. The mystery deepens when one recognises the proven fruitfulness of mathematical beauty as a guide to successful theory choice.
- The anthropic fine tuning of the universe: He quotes with approval Freeman Dyson, wh... | 6,120,264 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
it is the expression of the purposive design of a Creator, who has endowed it with the finely tuned potentialty for life."
- A wider humane reality: He considers that theism offers a more persuasive account of ethical and aesthetic perceptions. He argues that it is difficult to accommodate the idea t... | 6,120,265 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
fruits of human creativity."
## On free will.
Polkinghorne regards the problem of evil as the most serious intellectual objection to the existence of God. He believes that "The well-known free will defence in relation to moral evil asserts that a world with a possibility of sinful people is better t... | 6,120,266 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
linked with that of the physical world which has given us birth."
## On creationism.
Polkinghorne accepts evolution. Following the resignation of Michael Reiss, the director of education at the Royal Society—who had controversially argued that school pupils who believed in creationism should be used... | 6,120,267 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
Frankenberry, Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College, has described Polkinghorne as the finest British theologian/scientist of our time, citing his work on the possible relationship between chaos theory and natural theology. Owen Gingerich, an astronomer and former Harvard professor, has called hi... | 6,120,268 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
relies on a natural preference for explanation in terms of agency. Blackburn writes that he finished Polkinghorne's books in "despair at humanity's capacity for self-deception." Against this, Freeman J. Dyson called Polkinghorne's arguments on theology and natural science "polished and logically coher... | 6,120,269 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
firm of Dickensian lawyers": Arthur Peacocke, Russell Stannard, and John Polkinghorne, all of whom have either won the Templeton Prize or are on its board of trustees. Dawkins writes that he is not so much bewildered by their belief in a cosmic lawgiver, but by their beliefs in the minutiae of Christi... | 6,120,270 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
less baffled once he reads it.
A.C. Grayling criticized the Royal Society for allowing its premises to be used in connection with the launch of "Questions of Truth", describing it as a scandal, and suggesting that Polkinghorne had exploited his fellowship there to publicize a "weak, casuistical and t... | 6,120,271 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
"the kind of technical information...that scientifically trained readers will appreciate—yet they can be read profitably by anyone interested in science and Christianity." Davis concludes, "It hasn't been easy to steer a middle course between fundamentalism and modernism, particularly on issues involv... | 6,120,272 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
Jay Oord) (SPCK and Templeton Foundation Press, 2010) and
- "The Way the World is : The Christian Perspective of a Scientist" (1984 – revised 1992)
- "One World" (SPCK/Princeton University Press 1987; Templeton Foundation Press, 2007)
- "Science and Creation" (SPCK/New Science Library, 1989; Temple... | 6,120,273 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
"Serious Talk: Science and Religion in Dialogue" (Trinity Press International/SCM Press, 1996)
- "Scientists as Theologians" (1996)
- "Beyond Science: The wider human context" (CUP 1996)
- "Searching for Truth" (Bible Reading Fellowship/Crossroad, 1996)
- "Belief in God in an Age of Science" (Yale... | 6,120,274 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
contributors including Ian Barbour, Sarah Coakley, George Ellis, Jurgen Moltmann and Keith Ward (SPCK/Eerdmans 2001) /
- "The God of Hope and the End of the World" (Yale University Press, 2002)
- "The Archbishop's School of Christianity and Science" (York Courses, 2003)
- 'Science and Christian Fai... | 6,120,275 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
Physicist to Priest, an Autobiography" SPCK 2007
- "Theology in the Context of Science" SPCK 2008
- "Questions of Truth: Fiftyone Responses to Questions about God, Science and Belief", with Nicholas Beale; foreword by Antony Hewish (Westminster John Knox 2009)
- "Reason and Reality: The Relationshi... | 6,120,276 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
World" (Longmans/Princeton University Press, 1985; Penguin 1986; Templeton Foundation Press 2007)
- "Rochester Roundabout: The Story of High Energy Physics" (New York, Longman, 1989)
- "Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction" (2002) OUP
- "Meaning in Mathematics" (2011) OUP (edited, with contrib... | 6,120,277 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
on Science and Religion" (Templeton Foundation Press, 2005) ed Charles Harper
- "Creation, Law and Probability" (Fortress Press 2008) ed Fraser Watts with Peter Harrison, George Ellis, Philip Clayton, Michael Ruse, Nancey Murphy, John Bowker & others
- "Physical Processes, Quantum Events, and Divine... | 6,120,278 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
(for theology), accessed 9 July 2012.
- Video interview with Polkinghorne, accessed 25 March 2010.
- Knight, Christopher C. (2012). "John Polkinghorne" in "The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity" J.B. Stump and Alan Padgett (eds.) (Wiley-Blackwell).
- Macfarlane, Alan (2008). Interview... | 6,120,279 |
50335 | John Polkinghorne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Polkinghorne | John Polkinghorne
004, a theological investigation of Polkinghorne's (and Arthur Peacocke's) model of divine action.
- Runehov, Anne L.C. ""Chaos, Complexity, and God: Divine Action and Scientism" by Taede A. Smedes", "Ars Disputandi", Volume 6, 2006.
- Southgate, Christopher, ed. (1999) "God, Humanity and the Cosmos... | 6,120,280 |
2313661 | Boca Chica | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boca%20Chica | Boca Chica
Boca Chica
Boca Chica is a municipality ("municipio") of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic. Within the municipality there is one municipal district ("distritos municipal"): La Caleta. As of the 2012 census it had 123,510 inhabitants, 70,184 living in the city itself and 53,326 in its rura... | 6,120,281 |
2313661 | Boca Chica | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boca%20Chica | Boca Chica
of Boca Chica was in the 1950s, when dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo ordered the construction of a modern hotel named "Hotel Hamaca", which subsequently became something of an icon. The hotel got all the more famous because it was there that Trujillo granted asylum to Fulgencio Batista after the Cuban Revo... | 6,120,282 |
2313661 | Boca Chica | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boca%20Chica | Boca Chica
public transportation helped to make Boca Chica a very populated beach; it was no longer secluded and quiet, as it had been during the '50s and '60s.
# Characteristics.
The short distance from the capital city (19 miles), the crystalline waters and the white sands turned Boca Chica into the most crowded be... | 6,120,283 |
2313661 | Boca Chica | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boca%20Chica | Boca Chica
most family friendly of all the Dominican Republic beaches. Boca Chica has two small islands, Los Pinos and La Matica, and two marinas. There are lots of bars, restaurants, pizza stands, souvenirs stalls and loud music all day long; all this along the beach sand very close to the shore.
In recent years, the... | 6,120,284 |
2313691 | Practical Horseman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Practical%20Horseman | Practical Horseman
Practical Horseman
Practical Horseman is an American equestrian magazine that focuses on English-style riding, most notably hunter/jumpers as well as dressage and eventing.
# History and profile.
The magazine was founded in 1973 with the name "The Pennsylvania Horse". It was formerly published by ... | 6,120,285 |
2313691 | Practical Horseman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Practical%20Horseman | Practical Horseman
by the Equine Network, a subsidiary of Source Interlink, until 2010 when it was acquired by Active Interest Media. "Practical Horseman" was formerly headquartered in Unionville, Pennsylvania. Its headquarters is in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Known as the "English rider's #1 resource," the magazine has ... | 6,120,286 |
2313672 | Complete Discography | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Complete%20Discography | Complete Discography
Complete Discography
Complete Discography is a 1989 compilation album released by the American hardcore punk band Minor Threat on the band's own Dischord Records. As the name implies, it contains the band's entire discography at the time, including their three EPs, the "Out of Step" album and "Fle... | 6,120,287 |
2313672 | Complete Discography | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Complete%20Discography | Complete Discography
colors, including red and green and a 2003 remastered version in blue and yellow.
In 2018, "Pitchfork" ranked it the 23rd best album of the 1980s.
# Track listing.
All tracks by Minor Threat
- 1. "Filler" – 1:32
- 2. "I Don't Wanna Hear It" – 1:13
- 3. "Seeing Red" – 1:02
- 4. "Straight Edge... | 6,120,288 |
2313672 | Complete Discography | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Complete%20Discography | Complete Discography
1:50
- 17. "Think Again" – 2:18
- 18. "Look Back and Laugh" – 3:16
- 19. "Sob Story" – 1:50
- 20. "No Reason" – 1:57
- 21. "Little Friend" – 2:18
- 22. "Out of Step" – 1:20
- 23. "Cashing In" – 3:44
- 24. "Stumped" – 1:55
- 25. "Good Guys" (The Standells cover) – 2:14
- 26. "Salad Days" –... | 6,120,289 |
2313672 | Complete Discography | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Complete%20Discography | Complete Discography
– 2:18
- 18. "Look Back and Laugh" – 3:16
- 19. "Sob Story" – 1:50
- 20. "No Reason" – 1:57
- 21. "Little Friend" – 2:18
- 22. "Out of Step" – 1:20
- 23. "Cashing In" – 3:44
- 24. "Stumped" – 1:55
- 25. "Good Guys" (The Standells cover) – 2:14
- 26. "Salad Days" – 2:46
# Personnel.
- Ian... | 6,120,290 |
2313679 | Illinois Route 33 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Illinois%20Route%2033 | Illinois Route 33
Illinois Route 33
Illinois Route 33 is a multidirectional highway in southeastern Illinois, with its western terminus at Illinois Route 128 on the Fayette–Effingham county line near Beecher City and its southern terminus at U.S. Route 50 east of Lawrenceville. It also overlaps Illinois Route 32 from ... | 6,120,291 |
2313679 | Illinois Route 33 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Illinois%20Route%2033 | Illinois Route 33
it runs through the small towns of Dieterich and Wheeler. It then travel through Newton and joins with Illinois Route 130 and goes north. Two miles north of Newton it branches off and travels east through Oblong and then to Robinson. In Palestine, the road runs along Washington and Franklin Streets be... | 6,120,292 |
2313679 | Illinois Route 33 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Illinois%20Route%2033 | Illinois Route 33
blong and then to Robinson. In Palestine, the road runs along Washington and Franklin Streets before turning south on Jackson Street and leaving the city.
Illinois 33 continues south, parallel to the Wabash River and beneath U.S. Route 50. There is no intersection at this point. Illinois 33 then trav... | 6,120,293 |
2313683 | Charles Paul de Kock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20Paul%20de%20Kock | Charles Paul de Kock
Charles Paul de Kock
Charles Paul de Kock (May 21, 1793 in Passy, Paris – April 27, 1871 in Paris) was a French novelist.
# Biography.
His father, Jean Conrad de Kock, a banker of Dutch extraction, victim of the Terror, was guillotined in Paris 24 March 1794. His mother, Anne-Marie Perret, née K... | 6,120,294 |
2313683 | Charles Paul de Kock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20Paul%20de%20Kock | Charles Paul de Kock
novels dealing with Parisian life with "Georgette, ou la Nièce du tabellion". His period of greatest and most successful activity was the Restoration and the early days of Louis Philippe.
He was relatively less popular in France itself than abroad, where he was considered as the special painter of... | 6,120,295 |
2313683 | Charles Paul de Kock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20Paul%20de%20Kock | Charles Paul de Kock
the English author William Makepeace Thackeray) that he had read nothing of the novel kind for thirty years except Paul de Kock, who certainly made him laugh, is likely to remain one of the most durable of his testimonials, and may be classed with the legendary question of a foreign sovereign to a ... | 6,120,296 |
2313683 | Charles Paul de Kock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20Paul%20de%20Kock | Charles Paul de Kock
of the grisette and of the cheap dissipation described by Henri Murger practically made Paul de Kock obsolete. But to the student of manners his portraiture of low and middle class life in the first half of the 19th century at Paris still has its value.
# Works.
Paul de Kock wrote about 100 volum... | 6,120,297 |
2313683 | Charles Paul de Kock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20Paul%20de%20Kock | Charles Paul de Kock
are full of observation at first hand and of spicy humor. The 1905 "New International Encyclopædia" describes his stories as "rather vulgar, but not immoral, demanding no literary training and gratifying no delicate taste". They were extraordinarily popular. In 1905, Paul de Kock was seldom mention... | 6,120,298 |
2313683 | Charles Paul de Kock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20Paul%20de%20Kock | Charles Paul de Kock
nch literature. Typical examples of his work are:
- "Gustave le mauvais sujet" (1821)
- "Frère Jacques" (1822)
- "La laitière de Montfermeil" (1827)
- "Monsieur Dupont" (1825)
- "Un Tourlouron" (1837)
- "La femme, le mari et l'amant" (1829)
- "Le cocu" (1831)
- "La pucelle de Belleville" (1... | 6,120,299 |
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