bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Advice to the Bride and Groom
Authors: Russell Donald 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
After the traditional ordinance, which the priestess of Demeter laid upon you when you were shut up in your wedding chamber together, it may be that words (logos) also will touch you and contribute to your wedding in a way that is both useful and in harmony with the custom. In music, there was a tune for the pipe called “The Rampant Stallion,” designed, it seems, to urge the stallion to cover the mare. In philosophy too there are many fine subjects of discourse, but none more important than this discourse of marriage, whereby philosophy charms those who come together to share their lives, and makes them gentle and amenable to each other. I have therefore put together in the form of some brief similitudes, so that they are the more easily remembered, the main points of the teaching you have often heard in the course of your education in philosophy. These I send as a gift to you both, praying that the Muses may assist Aphrodite in her work; for it is less their duty to tune lyre or cithara than it is to ensure the tunefulness of marriage and home by discourse, harmony, and philosophy. The ancients set Hermes at Aphrodite’s side, knowing that the pleasure of marriage needed his word more than anything, and with them they set Persuasion and the Graces, that married couples might gratify their desire with each other by persuasion, not in conflict or quarrelsomeness.
The Relativity Of Simultaneity
Authors: Pickover Clifford A 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Mr. Veil eyes you suspiciously as he grabs two lasers and leaves for the car. As you wait, you press a button on the wall, causing the museum’s computer to play one of Chopin’s mazurkas. Thanks to skillful programming, the computer can play all of Chopin’s mazurkas, polonaises, and nocturnes, which are stored in the computer’s memory. The computer simultaneously projects gorgeous, electro-improvisational holograms all around you. You begin to sway with the music as Mr. Veil leaves the museum.
Your Space or Mine?
Authors: Pickover Clifford A 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Constantia winds a long scarf around her neck. “How far is it to Rockefeller Center?” “A few blocks.” You pause. “Let’s continue our lessons. Today I want to talk about distances in spacetime. I want to tell you about spacetime intervals, Minkowskian space, and null intervals.” Stooping down, you motion to a little alley next to a jewelry shop that has the words GOING OUT OF BUSINESS on the store front. You whip out a piece of chalk and draw two dots on the sidewalk (Fig. 7.1). “Here is Rockefeller Center, and here is Grand Central Station. In my drawing, both axes represent space. We can define a distance metric in terms of differential movements between Rockefeller Center and Grand Central Station.
Future Shock
Authors: Pickover Clifford A 
Published: November 2023

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“Mr. Veil, we know that the mass of an object increases as it approaches the speed of light. How could you close the scissors fast enough?” You shake your head. “Nice idea, but it could never work!’ Mr. Veil points the scissors at you. “Wait. It’s true that the scissors’ blades have mass and must always move slower than light, but the intersection of the blades is massless.
Tachyons, Cosmic Moment Lines, Transcendent Infinite Speeds
Authors: Pickover Clifford A 
Published: November 2023

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“First let’s get some fresh air as we talk. I know a nice place near the Empire State Building.” The three of you leave the museum. On your way, you window-shop outside the various gadget stores. The Christmas lights and decorations have recently gone up, and you-along with hundreds of other equally mesmerized passersby-peer though the thick glass at scenes from Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. It is a robot version with robotic actors.
Time Travel by Balloons and Strings
Authors: Pickover Clifford A 
Published: November 2023

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When you get to Washington Square, the three of you grab some sushi at a mom-and-pop Japanese joint. You enjoy the Ganymedean squid as Constantia and Mr. Veil slurp their economy-sized bowls of miso soup, flavored with delicate great scallions and a dash of ginger. After eating, you take the subway express to New Christopher Park. New York City trains are efficient, clean, and-given the astronomical cab fares near the village-cheap. You pay 2000 yen per subway token-just over $20.
Can John F. Kennedy Be Saved?
Authors: Pickover Clifford A 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
“Hi,” Constantia says squinting up at you, her dark eyes absorbing photons of light. On Constantia’s shirt is a photograph of Isaac Asi mov, the most prolific and popular science writer of all time. You feel a twinge of regret. You always wished you had the opportunity to meet the man. “Want to go to the Four Seasons?” you ask. You like the place. It’s like a comfortable living room-the decor’s not too formal, the food’s good, and the waiters don’t hover.
Adventures with Time
Authors: Pickover Clifford A 
Published: November 2023

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You place the fax on a table. “I’d like to have some fun with time today. Recreations. I want to help you get a better appreciation for probability and vast amounts of time.” You hand Mr. Veil a large glass bottle with a small opening at its top (Fig. 16.1). You also hand him a small blue marble. “Mr. Veil, please place the marble in the bottle and shake it randomly to see if you can pop the marble out of the upper opening.
Some Concluding Musings and Thoughts
Authors: Pickover Clifford A 
Published: November 2023

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Some physicists believe that if we seriously consider time as a fourth dimension, then the past and future have always existed, and that human consciousness, for some unknown reason, perceives the universe one moment at a time, giving rise to the illusion of a continually changing pre sent. As mathematical physicist Herman Weyl once noted, “The objective world simply is; it does not happen. Only to the gaze of my consciousness, crawling upward along the life line of my body, does a section of this world come to life as a fleeting image which continuously changes in time.” Per haps other beings in the universe do not have our perceptual constraints with regard to future and past, just like the creatures in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Sirens of Titan. In this book, the aliens see past and present at once and view human beings as “great millipedes with babies’ legs at one end and old people’s legs at the other.” If time is truly a fourth dimension, then time travel always remains a possibility.
When Men Help Others
Authors: Nock Steven L 
Published: November 2023

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Americans gave over $129 billion to charitable causes in 1995. Roughly 8 of every 10 of these dollars were given by private individuals, not foundations, corporations, or other organizations. Almost 7 in 10 American households (69%) gave some amount of money to charities or other philanthropic causes in 1995. Religious organizations were the primary recipient of Americans’ generosity, with health causes, human services, programs for youth, and education receiving the next largest amounts, respectively (Independent Sector, 1996: 1-4) The average contributing American household gave $1,017 to various causes in 1995, or a little over 2% of household income. These amounts are impressive, but they are also an understatement because they do not include gifts to friends or relatives. Nor do they include gifts in kind. Over half of Americans (56%) gave money to relatives or friends in 1995. The total average amount given to such individuals exceeded the amount given to charities by over $500 ($1,527 in 1995; Independent Sector, 1996: Table 4.9). That such a large percentage of Americans makes annual donations suggests clearly that we are a generous people with our money. Much less clear, however, is why we give so much.
The Third Edition - with Revisions 1774-1787
Authors: Dalzell Robert F , Dalzell Lee Baldwin 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The first time Washington rebuilt Mount Vernon almost all the work was done while he was away at the front. Sixteen years later, in 1774, he was at least there to watch Going Lanphier’s frame for the addition to the south end of the house take shape-to watch and to satisfy himself that the joints were tight and that the corners of the building would stand straight and true. Always inclined to move, sometimes doggedly, in incremental steps to achieve what he wanted, he plainly enjoyed his role.
Apocalyptic Politics in the New Christian Right
Authors: O’leary Stephen D 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The last chapter concluded with a comparison of William Miller’s apocalyptic rhetoric to that of Hal Lindsey. This comparison seems to break down rapidly when one contrasts the movements associated with each. Millerite apocalypticism was utterly apolitical; the movement’s single focus was to spread the doctrine of the approaching End. Yet it must not be forgotten that, for many Millerites, the “Great Disappointment” was the culmination of a lifetime of lesser disappointments in the reform causes of abolition and temperance.
The “Patience” Problem
Authors: Zuckerman Bruce 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This quotation comes from the Epistle of James 5:11, and is, of course, the source of the cliche that has fixed the dominant view of Job for us: ten hupomonen lob, the proverbial “patience of Job.” The term hupomone has remained tied to the biblical figure; for when Job penetrates our consciousness it is always in this particular manner-as a paragon of patience. Yet, as Marvin H. Pope has commented, this “is, however, scarcely a balanced view, since it ignores the thrust of more than nine tenths of the book and appears to take account only of the beginning and end of the story.”
The Case against a Linear Reading
Authors: Zuckerman Bruce 
Published: November 2023

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I previously emphasized that the Prologue/Epilogue of Job and the Poem30 do not seem to coalesce. Instead we took the view that there is a decisive, thematic break between the end of the Prologue (2:13) and the beginning of the Poem (3:1 ff.) and an equally wide thematic gap between the end of the Poem (42:6) and the beginning of the Epilogue (42:7 ff.) However, it could be argued that the dramatic contrast proposed here has been overdrawn, that there is no real justification for seeing a conflict between the two pictures of Job we respectively see in the Prologue/ Epilogue and the Poem. Rather, they follow in a logical progression. After all, a linear reading of the Joban story line can make excellent sense of Job’s change of moods.
The Art of Parody: The Death Theme
Authors: Zuckerman Bruce 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Finally, there is one other theme in the Poem of Job on which I would like to focus particular attention: the theme of death and the netherworld. The allusions to death in the book of Job have received somewhat less attention in the scholarly literature than the Righteous Sufferer motif and the legal metaphor which we have considered above. Still, the emphasis on mortality in the Poem of Job is just as extensive as is the case for these other themes, perhaps even more so. In fact, it could be fairly stated that, verse-for-verse, no book in the Bible is more death-oriented than Job.
Supplemental Themes
Authors: Zuckerman Bruce 
Published: November 2023

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It would not be difficult to extend this discussion of the parodistic aspects of the Poem of Job; there are a number of studies in the scholarly literature, highlighting various satiric and ironic elements in this biblical book that have already led the way in this respect.414 Where I really depart from these other interpretations is in my contention that this is all part of a grand design, that parody is not simply an aspect of the Poem but is instead the very essence of what the Poem actually is.
Transformations of Wen Cheng Kongjo
Authors: Benard Elisabeth 
Published: November 2023

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This essay examines one of the earliest phases of the political and spiritual relationship between the Tibetans and Chinese by reviewing the life of Wen Cheng Kongjo, the Tang imperial princess. As the second wife of the first Buddhist Tibetan king, Srong Tsen Gampo in the seventh century, she was a Tibetan queen from 641 to her death in 680. By the twelfth century Tibetans had deified her as an emanation of Tara, one of the most popular Tibetan Buddhist goddesses. The interpretations of Wen Cheng’s life and deification remain central to the present-day politics between the Tibetans and Chinese.
King Arthur and Morgan le Fay
Authors: Young Serinity 
Published: November 2023

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Morgan le Fay (meaning Morgan the Fairy) is known as the half sister of Arthur, the semilegendary sixth-century king of the Britons.1 She is a complex character, one who has been woven from many ancient threads, and one who gives a fair picture of a deep Celtic belief in goddesses who can bless or curse as the mood takes them. In this essay I explore Morgan's association with divinity, especially her power to confer sovereignty, beginning with the earliest textual sources for her legend and concluding with contemporary literary and cinematic expropriations of her character. She is represented variously as a dangerous sorceress who enchants men with her magic and her beauty, a shape shifter, and a woman known for her wisdom, esoteric knowledge, and abilities as a healer.
Queen Mary and Medical Christendom
Authors: Broughton Laurel G 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
On June 9, 1311, the people of Siena closed their shops and made holiday. Moving from the workshop of Duccio di Buoninsegna through the streets of the city to the Cathedral of the Assumption, they celebrated the completion of the great altarpiece the Maesta, or Virgin in Majesty. Layered with gold and rich pigments, Duccio’s masterpiece portrayed Mary in regal splendor, enthroned with the infant Jesus on her lap and surrounded by saints and angels. The panels placed above the large central image depicted scenes from Mary’s last days, her death, assumption, and coronation.
Too Sexy for Words: The Changing Vocabulary of Religious Ethics
Authors: Hunt Mary E 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Efforts by the self-defined Christian Right to turn back social progress for women and sexual minorities include rhetoric that distorts the lives of their subjects. They would have every gay/lesbian pride march made up of bare-breasted women and men in leather chaps and would deem every woman who chooses an abortion a child murderer, if their videos and pamphlets represent accurately their positions. The success of these efforts at creating new meanings for words, especially at creating new ethical patterns with which I generally disagree, alerts me to the fact that ethical vocabularies change both with the use of words and the meanings given to them.
Religion and Reproductive Policy
Authors: Maguire Daniel C 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The sexual is political. Every government knows that and every government addresses sex and gender issues. All social theorists take account of sexuality. No realistic theory of economics, sociology, religion, history, or law could leave it untouched. Gender is part of the primordial experience of identity; it is also the primal socializing experience of an “other.” If that gender relationship is skewed, it will have an impact on how we relate to other others. Gender prejudice (sexism) is thus the elemental distortion, the setting of one half of the human dyad against the other; it is then the genetic paradigm for all forms of prejudice. In theological terms, sexism is original sin and a pandemic root of mischief. Sex also functions as a mirror, an attitudinal showcase that reflects society’s values and power assumptions. Major social revolutions come to grips with it since sexual attitudes reflect social arrangements to a degree. A military culture will not be sexually gentle.
Reproductive Technologies: Ethical and Religious Issues
Authors: Shannon Thomas A 
Published: November 2023

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This article will discuss several ethical dimensions of assisted reproduction. First, I will identify general ethical issues that have not been fully evaluated, primarily because of the way the field of assisted reproduction developed. Second, I will argue that while Roman Catholicism has a fairly developed and clear teaching about assisted reproduction and that while some of this teaching has a value beyond the boundaries of this religion, ultimately the teaching lacks credibility because of use of a problematic understanding of natural law. The teaching is overly physicalist or biological in its development of norms, and this narrowness of interpretation impedes Catholicism from responding constructively to historical changes in marriage and in the family. Finally, I will develop aspects of Roman Catholic social ethics that could contribute to a discussion of assisted reproduction, particularly within the discussion of health insurance. Here I will be moving beyond a traditional understanding of natural law but will remain within the general context of Roman Catholic social teaching. While criticizing many aspects of traditional Roman Catholic teaching, I want to argue that there are, nonetheless, resources within this tradition that are both constructive and useful in evaluating this important, developing branch of reproductive medicine.
The Demes Definitions and Membership
Authors: Jones Nicholas F 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Like its predecessor, the new public organization created by Kleisthenes comprised three tiers of units: phylai,trittyes, and demes. At each of the levels, the units, as varying types and quantities of contemporary evidence reveal, were internally organized as more or less independent associations. The phyle associations will be treated at length in chapters 5 and 6. The trittys associations, as noted in the Introduction, have left only a few traces of their existence in the epigraphic record. So, we shall begin our investigation with the deme associations, the building blocks of the K.leisthenic organization and, as we shall see, entities that, in various ways, bear the stamp of a “response to democracy.”
“Clubs,” Schools, Regional, and Cultic Associations
Authors: Jones Nicholas F 
Published: November 2023

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By way of introducing the present chapter, it will be useful to review briefly what we have accomplished up to this point. In chapters 2 through 6, sustained attention was given to the relevant aspects of the internally organized segments of the Kleis thenic public organization: the demes (chapters 2, 3, and 4) and the phylai (chapters 5 and 6). The immediately preceding chapter was devoted to an association independent of that public organization, the phratry, but one rendered quasi-public in function by the bestowal upon it of an indirect “gatekeeper” role with respect to admission to the Athenian citizen body.
The Organization of the Cretan City in Plato’s Laws
Authors: Jones Nicholas F 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
We have now completed study of the attested associations of the classical period with respect to their relation to the central government and, in the light of that relation, to their place in the greater state of Athens. Our findings must stand or fall on their own to the extent that they are supported or not by the evidentiary record for the actual design and functioning of those associations. Nonetheless, any corroboration forthcoming from other sources would be most welcome. There is in fact one such source-contemporary Athenian political theory.
Japan and the PC Revolution
Authors: Dedrick Jason , Kraemer Kenneth L 
Published: November 2023

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The personal computer revolution appeared to offer a tremendous opportunity for Japan. Combining their strengths in electronic components with their growing capabilities in computer technology, the Japanese computer makers appeared likely to become major competitors in the global PC industry. In fact, some in the United States expected that Japanese companies would eventually use their control over upstream components and technologies to dominate the industry. Former U.S. Trade Representative Clyde Prestowitz, predicted that the Japanese would run away with the world computer market. Intel’s Andrew Grove predicted that Japan would overtake the United States as the dominant world supplier of computer systems by 1992. What few suspected was that the PC revolution would so change the nature of the computer industry that many of the presumed strengths of the Japanese companies would turn out to be liabilities in the PC industry.
Competing in Computers in the Network Era
Authors: Dedrick Jason , Kraemer Kenneth L 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Network computing is based on the convergence of computing, communications, and multimedia content. The concept has been the basis of visionary treatises on the information society as far back as the 1960s,1 but the actual convergence always seemed just around the corner until the 1990s, when the Internet exploded onto the scene—the global network of networks that evolved from the U.S. Defense Department’s ARPANET (created in 1973). However, use of the Internet had never spread much beyond the research and academic communities until the arrival of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s. The hyperlinked Web, combined with graphical Web browsers such as Mosaic and Netscape Navigator, made it easy to navigate the Internet. Users clicked on a word or symbol and were quickly connected to a computer that could be located anywhere in the world. The Web also made it possible to embed words, pictures, sound, and video in a document, creating a true convergence of computing, communications, and content.
A Controversy over a Verse on the Remarriage of Hindu Women
Authors: Datta Krishna 
Published: November 2023

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In Dharmaśāstra literature, the verse naste mrte ... (Parāsarasmrti iv.28), I ordaining the remarriage of women, occupies a unique position from the sociological point of view. This verse has given rise to serious controversies that have continued for centuries. Even its authorship has not been beyond question.