Can payback, punitive action fueled by the desire to hurt an offending aggressor, ever be justified? In Anger and Forgiveness, Martha Nussbaum emphatically answers “no”, arguing that payback and the anger on which it is based, even following severe loss, distracts one from pursuing the betterment and loving nature one should be striving
Wheels This essay concerns a group of drawings made and exhibited in 1930 by L.S.Lowry in Ancoats, then a notorious (and pictorially unpromising) Manchester slum.Though many are now lost, we know enough about those that survive to say something about the representational project they exemplify.What does it mean to draw a slum? Lowry, one of the few
We report a reconfigurable optical filter chip based on Resistance Motor the Si3N4 waveguide platform.Microwave filtering is realized using a device with optical-to-electrical mapping.The filter chip is based on a lattice structure with the dual-ring-coupled Mach-Zehnder interferometers (DR-MZIs) as the basic elements.Both the lattice and ring coup
The current global debacle of COVID-19, spelled by SARS-CoV-2 needs no elaboration.With incessant and constantly clambering number of deaths across various nations, the need of the hour is to develop readily deployable, fast, affordable Bags detection assays and kits, yielding precise and consistent results as well as timely availability of efficac