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The ruined-city motif in the Old English poem The Wanderer (lines 73–87) has long been read as a reflex of traditional Germanic diction, and as a symbol of material transience. In line with more recent biblical readings of the poem, this paper identifies a number of analogues and possible sources for both the excidio urbis image and other images of transience, in the biblical Book of Ezekiel. Among these correspondences between The Wanderer and the prophetic biblical narrative are references to scavenging animals, traditionally read as Germanic 'beasts of battle' when encountered in the Old English elegies. Reading this passage alongside Gregory the Great's Homilies on Ezekiel further illuminates how the poem's structure and changing use of tense corresponds with contemporary thought on the revelatory processes of prophecy. It is here proposed that the Old English poet has chosen to use images and devices which resonate with both biblical and traditional vernacular poetic diction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document is a preface to a themed section in the journal Hydrobiologia, dedicated to honoring the legacy of Dr. Brij Gopal. Dr. Gopal was a respected scientist and member of the Hydrobiologia Advisory Board, known for his work in river, lake, and wetland ecology. He made significant contributions to understanding biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, water quality, and natural resources conservation. Dr. Gopal also mentored numerous students and received several national and international awards for his work. The papers featured in this themed section explore the ecological aspects of the ecosystems that Dr. Gopal studied, including wetlands, streams, mangroves, and reservoirs around the world. [Extracted from the article]

The editorial from Ocean Dynamics provides an overview of the journal's activities in 2023. It begins with the sad news of the passing of Prof. Dr. Jörg-Olaf Wolff, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal. The editors express their appreciation to the 220 reviewers from thirty-six different countries who evaluated manuscripts in 2023. The COVID pandemic had a significant impact on the journal's submissions, but in 2023, the number of published papers increased by approximately 15%. The journal also started publishing special issues again, with the first collection being the 12th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean in Michigan. The editorial concludes by thanking the guest editors and the editorial and production staff of Springer Nature. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Scientific Conceptualization and Ontological Difference" by Dimitri Ginev explores the relationship between hermeneutic philosophy of science and interpretive human studies. Ginev argues that scientific conceptualization should be seen as a contextualized facticity rather than a static factuality. He integrates the ontological difference into scientific inquiry, emphasizing the balance between objectification and reflexivity. The book also discusses the role of practices in shaping social reality and the trans-subjective dimension of personal existence. While the book offers a productive dialogue between hermeneutics, existentialism, and various disciplines, there are still areas that require further integration. [Extracted from the article]

The discussion around artificial empathy and its ethics is not a new one. This concept can be found in classic science fiction media such as Star Trek and Blade Runner and is also pondered on in more recent interactive media such as the video game Detroit: Become Human. In most depictions, emotions and empathy are presented as the key to being human. Misselhorn's new publication shows that these futuristic stories are becoming more and more relevant today. We must ask ourselves whether we are socially responsible enough to deal with the consequences of artificial empathy/awareness. If we create artificial life, we should be prepared to treat them accordingly as living beings with respect and no longer categorize them as objects. The author does not rule out the idea that machines might one day become more human than humans themselves and that we humans might even lose our own specific cognitive, emotional and social abilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dr. John Hume is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, specializing in the biology and management of lampreys. His research focuses on various aspects of lamprey life cycles, including their development, trophic ecology, and migration patterns. He incorporates approaches from different biological fields, such as chemical communication, animal behavior, and conservation biology. Dr. Hume has published over 25 scientific papers and serves as an Advisory Editor for Environmental Biology of Fishes. He has also reviewed articles for several other journals in the field. [Extracted from the article]

This is a review of Thomas Dietz's book Decisions for Sustainability where he incorporates sociological, psychological, and economic perspectives to highlight strengths and weaknesses in individual and societal decision-making. Within the book, the author reviews various sustainability challenges and how we can make better decisions to address those challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I believe that a broad audience of educators, regardless of mathematics specialization, will be equally inspired after reading this book to spark a grassroots movement toward mathematics literacy for all. Revisiting "Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project" by Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb, Jr.: Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 2001, 233 pp, $16.00 (Paper), ISBN: 0-8070-3127-5 As a current mathematics education researcher whose work involves teaching mathematics for social justice, I have found Moses' work inspiring and well worth reading. [Extracted from the article]

I had no idea what her name was until recently - and the photograph used to instill in me anger and horror because I assumed that Ut's photograph came at the expense of Kim Phúc's life. But it may also be that the section on I The Crime Museum Uncovered i seems unfulfilling because, although Biber describes the exhibition as telling a story of crime and police investigation (the words "story" and "narrate" are peppered in these pages of the chapter), it feels as if Biber missed an opportunity to engage with narrative criminology. Given the scope of Chapter 7 and its consideration of violations of international humanitarian law, I had hoped that Biber might have contemplated some of the images mentioned at the outset of this review, such as the photographs by Adams, Browne and Ut. "That picture will always serve as a reminder of the unspeakable evil of which humanity is capable", Kim Phúc writes, but Ut's actions after taking the photograph and Kim Phúc's resiliency in the ensuing decades inspire some hope for humanity - which stands in contrast to the image by itself. [Extracted from the article]

The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives is a welcome intervention into the ongoing discourse, both public and academic, on the issues of raised by the movement. The book will be of great interest to scholars interested in philosophical issues surrounding racial inequality and it is also suitable for adoption in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. This volume is evidence of the fruitfulness of philosophical reflection on and engagement with social movements, as well as being an important contribution to the literature on racial justice. For those looking for philosophical insights into the Movement for Black Lives, this book is essential reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It's a masterpiece. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Katherine Crawford: Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence: Yale University Press (April 6, 2021). In chapter three, I Data i , Crawford presents an accessible critique of the use of data in the making and operation of AI systems, especially machine vision systems. However, an additional point could also be made here; that AI is only I one i type of computing technology, and even if we were to ban AI completely, humanity's extractive practices on planet Earth would still continue to enable and feed other forms of technology production. [Extracted from the article]

He explored various classes of perfect graphs, graphs with non-empty intersections of longest paths, hereditary graph classes, Fibonacci and Lucas cubes, and attacked several related problems. In his paper [Marko Petkovsek, Letter graphs and well-quasi-order by induced subgraphs, Discrete Mathematics 244 (2002) 375-388] he introduced the notion of letter graphs, proved that the class of k-letter graphs is well-quasi-ordered by the induced subgraph relation, and that it has only finitely many minimal forbidden induced subgraphs. Marko Petkovsek was born in 1955 and died in 2023. [Extracted from the article]

To conclude, I Money and the Rule of Law i is a welcome contribution to the intellectual road and research agenda at the intersection of political economy, banking theory, and monetary institutions. Despite all its macroeconomic refinement and high levels of technicality, monetary policy cannot escape this fundamental fact of economic nature; this is because both monetary policy and banking processes will always be dependent on the institutional structure in which it operates (Paniagua, [23]). The notion of taming banking crises and preventing them from ruining the financial system are among the strongest arguments employed to guarantee a higher degree of discretion in monetary and banking policy. The book is a great reminder of the fact that while economics might be a science, political economy and monetary policy are worldly arts[7] that require prudence and nuanced understanding of how institutions are constructed. [Extracted from the article]

A Review of Lyn Spillman's What is Cultural Sociology? Furthermore, by avoiding a thick description of the debates, Spillman naturalizes particular theoretical positions that are included in the book as core knowledge, while other sides of the debate are not explicated. Without these, readers will be unable to chart the epistemological debates that structure cultural sociology and the processes of meaning outlined in the book. It was then that Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel, Spillman says, kickstarted the study of culture in sociology, and finally Berger and Luckmann ([8]) who brought it back into the fold after several decades of neglect. [Extracted from the article]

Whitaker has the gift of making sense of the visual arts market and she is able to convince readers that something as nonsensical as art and creativity can actually be explained with logic. In the final chapter of the book, Whitaker defines her perspective on how the arts and economics combine. [Extracted from the article]