Click Here to Read and View: Does the Universe have higher dimensions? Part 2 by Sabine Hossenfelder on her BackReaction blog on April 17, 2021. Dice analogy 0 to 5 dimensions Image: de:Benutzer:Karl Bednarik
FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: What Is Speaking? Alain Vanier with Après-Coup
FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: What Is Speaking? Alain Vanier Friday, April 23, 2021 • 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Saturday, April 24, 2021 • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Time Zone: Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada)
By introducing notions such as lalangue, “saying” (le dire), and “the said” (le dit), Lacan alters, without abandoning, the scope of the function of speech and spoken language as articulated by Freud, albeit in a paradoxical manner which we will explore.
Suggested readings: Lacan: Seminars XIX, 1971-72, Ou pire; XX, 1972-73, Encore; “Le savoir du psychanalyste” (lectures, 1971-72, Hôpital Sainte- Continue reading FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: What Is Speaking? Alain Vanier with Après-Coup
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First Steps’ shows how bipedalism led humans down a strange evolutionary path
Click Here to Read: ‘First Steps’ shows how bipedalism led humans down a strange evolutionary path: A new book argues that upright walking had profound effects on human anatomy and behavior By Riley Black on the Science News website on April 14, 2021.
Image: M. Garde. Self work Original by: José-Manuel Benitos.
All Eyes on Alpha Centauri
Click Here to Read: All Eyes on Alpha Centauri: Takeaways from this week’s Breakthrough Discuss meeting By Dirk Schulze-Makuch on the AIRSPACEMAG.COM website on APRIL 14, 2021.
The two bright stars are (left) Alpha Centauri and (right) Beta Centauri, both binaries. The faint red star in the center of the red circle, at right angles to both and south-east of Alpha is Proxima Centauri, intensely red, smaller in size, weaker in brightness and a distant third element in a triple star system with the main close pair forming Alpha Centauri. Taken with Canon 85mm f/1.8 lens with 11 frames stacked, each frame exposed 30 seconds. Image: Skatebiker Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
