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The mummy of King Amenhotep I (18th Dynasty c.1525-1504 BC) was reburied by the 21st Dynasty priests at Deir el-Bahari Royal Cache. In 1881 the mummy was found fully wrapped and was one of few royal mummies who have not been unwrapped in modern times. We hypothesized that non-invasive digital unwrapping using Computed Tomography (CT) would provide insights on the physical appearance, health, cause of death and mummification style of the mummy of King Amenhotep I. We examined the mummy with CT an...

From the US revolutionary socialist paper Labor Action, July 10 1950 If your school-age son is somewhat better than clever in any field of science, you may have heard the expression: "He's an Einstein." It is indeed unprecedented that the name of a scientist working in highly specialised mathematical physics has become a by-word in the homes of his adopted land. This unique status of Albert Einstein rests not only on his scientific pre-eminence but also upon his keen interest in s...

A lecture by Harold White Fellow, Maryanne Dever, at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 25 October, 1995

Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward give a detailed account and analysis of the militant movement of unemployed American workers during the Great Depression, how it developed and how it was recuperated by the government through its own leaders.

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Creativity is simply the ability to look at one thing and see another. All creativity involves combining and recombining previously known elements into...

Neopagans have a great deal to teach 21st Century socialists, if only we would listen. As capitalism has gone into deep decline in the United States and England beginning in the 1970s, two spiritual movements have sprung up outside Judeo-Christianity: The New Age and Neopaganism. Contrary to some sociologists’ claims that Neopagan Wiccans, Druids and […]

James M. Barrie|J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan: Portrait of a Play “In this world there are no second chances.” – Solomon Caw’s warning to Peter Pan ...

A Brief Overview of Vajrayana Buddhism and the Teachings of the Dalai Lama The path of Buddhism is divided into two primary vehicles: the Low Vehicle, o...