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Guest Commentary: Hurricanes are inevitable. Losing your vote to one isn’t
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Some years might have more active and unpredictable severe weather than others, but every Floridian knows that when summer rolls around and temperatures start ticking up even higher than normal, hurricane season is here. And the very real threat of damage and destruction from these storms requires prepping for what to do in the event that a hurricane turns into a full-scale emergency.
Hurricanes are inevitable. Losing your vote to one isn’t | Opinion
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Some years might have more active and unpredictable severe weather than others, but every Floridian knows that when summer rolls around and temperatures start ticking up even higher than normal, hurricane season is here. And the very real threat of damage and destruction from these storms requires prepping for what to do in the event that a hurricane turns into a full-scale emergency.
Say no to Trump’s mid-decade redistricting | Opinion
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... President Trump is pressuring Republican-led legislatures, including Florida’s, to conduct mid-decade redistricting. It is a pure power grab designed to lock in his grip on Congress through 2028 and, perhaps, beyond. What is new and deeply alarming is that Florida’s Legislature appears to be taking steps to satisfy his most anti-democratic wishes. Floridians cannot allow the legislature to rig our elections for the president.
Antigen persistence and TLR stimulation contribute to induction of a durable HIV-1-specific neutralizing antibody response - Nature Communications
Abstract HIV-1 Env glycoprotein (Env) immunogenicity is limited in part by structural instability and extensive glycan shielding and is likely the greatest obstacle to an HIV-1 vaccine. Stabilized Env trimers can elicit serum neutralizing antibodies, but the response is short-lived.
MP4orce am 24. April 2025 um 16:50 Uhr auf Fix und Foxi
Cooder, Kayce, Leylen und Benny sind gute Freunde, die viel Zeit vor dem Computer verbringen. Eines Tages werden sie in ein Videospiel hineingezogen und müssen gegen die Bösewichte von DEVLAN 13 antreten, die die Welt bedrohen. Ihre Musik verschafft den Freunden für ihre abenteuerlichen Erlebnisse die notwendigen Superkräfte, die sie im Kampf gegen das Böse auch ganz dringend brauchen.
When is HbA1c useful and what do the numbers mean - do they help or hinder?
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15277/bjd.2023.417 Keywords: HbA1c, inpatient diagnosis, gestational diabetes, remission, red blood cells References ElSayed NA, Aleppo G, Aroda VR, et al; on behalf of the American Diabetes Association; 2. Classification and diagnosis of diabetes: standards of care in diabetes—2023.
Book Reviews
Oliver Gloag, Albert Camus: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), 112pp. ISBN: 9780198792970. £8.99 (paperback). Meryl Altman, Beauvoir in Time (Leiden: Brill, 2020), x + 570pp. ISBN: 9789004431201. €142.00 (hardback); ISBN: 9789004431218 (open-access e-book). Alfred Betschart and Juliane Werner (eds), Sartre and the International Impact of Existentialism (London: Palgrave, 2020), 388pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-38481-4. $129.99 (hardback); ISBN: 9783030384845.
"Chappaqua" by Jonathan Webber
Keywords graduation, reminiscent, leaving Description I ordered a cheap chicken dish; my date from Burley, Idaho, had a bowl of creamed celery soup. We asked for caviar just for fun and the waiter said, ''You have to order a meal.'' The bill was already thirty-five dollars we should have expected that in the Eduardian Room of the Plaza Hotel. Just before dinner, we had taken a ride around Central Park on a horse-drawn carriage.
Don’t bypass overpressure protection
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DeSantis as ‘green governor’? More like ‘blue-green (algae) governor’
After the year we’ve had, many of us wish we could go back in time. But no one in Florida wants to go back to the devastating blue-green algae and Red Tide summer of 2018. Unfortunately, with recent reports of massive fish kills, water that looks like guacamole, record manatee die-offs and human health warnings, we are already experiencing another slimy, smelly summer.
Black Skin, White Masks
Chapter: (p.131) 8 Black Skin, White MasksSource: Rethinking ExistentialismAuthor(s): Jonathan Webber Publisher: Oxford University Press DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198735908.003.0008 This chapter argues that Frantz Fanon’s first book Black Skin, White Masks is unified by a profoundly existentialist conception of human being and psychological functioning.
As the planet warms, Florida Legislature might chill local progress on clean energy | Opinion
Florida Legislature considering bills that would curtail residents, local governments’ ability to choose renewable energy sources. Matt York AP Florida isn’t just witnessing the greatest public-health disaster in our history. We’re also losing part of our democracy. Right now, the Florida Legislature is considering several bills that will weaken local government and silence the voice of the people.
Never Mind the Camus: Sartre's Typhus is the Existential Plague Fiction We Need
Albert Camus has been having a good pandemic, sixty years after he died. Copies of The Plague have sold faster than publishers can print them in many languages across the world, an abundance of newspaper and magazine articles have extolled its lessons for our time, and the BBC have made it into a radio play. But another work of existential plague fiction, written around the same time by his friend and rival Jean-Paul Sartre, has far more important things to say about our experience of coronavirus.
Why Xavière is a Threat to Françoise
Chapter: (p.57) 4 Why Xavière is a Threat to FrançoiseSource: Rethinking ExistentialismAuthor(s): Jonathan Webber Publisher: Oxford University Press DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198735908.003.0004 This chapter argues that Simone de Beauvoir’s first publication, the novel She Came To Stay, presents an existentialist metaphysics of human freedom that is opposed to Sartre’s idea of radical freedom.
We need a ‘green governor’ to stem climate change | Column
With the election of Ron DeSantis as governor in 2018, there was hope among voters across the political spectrum that he could be the “green governor” that Florida desperately needs. But when it comes to the urgent climate crisis unfolding before our eyes, he’s been all talk and no action, and his allies in the Florida Legislature aren’t helping either. DeSantis made headlines across the country when he announced the new chief resilience officer position in his administration.
Clean-energy plan crucial for Legislature to address climate crisis | Commentary
The Florida House chamber is pictured in this 2016 photo. Rep. Anna Eskamani offered an amendment on the House floor to put Florida on the path to carbon neutrality, but it was struck down. (Steve Cannon) Ten years. That’s how long we have left to take meaningful action to prevent the worst of the damage that will come with climate change, according to a United Nations report. And with the Florida Legislature meeting for only 60 days a year, there isn’t a moment to waste.
From Absurdity to Authenticity
Chapter: (p.151) 9 From Absurdity to AuthenticitySource: Rethinking ExistentialismAuthor(s): Jonathan Webber Publisher: Oxford University Press DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198735908.003.0009 This chapter elucidates the existentialist problem of absurdity and analyses the eudaimonist responses offered by Fanon and Sartre.
Once driverless cars are on the road, human drivers should be banned
Self-driving cars could revolutionise people’s lives. By the end of the next decade, or perhaps even sooner, they could radically transform public spaces and liberate us from the many problems of mass car ownership. They’ll also be much better behaved than human drivers. Robot drivers won’t break the speed limit, jump the lights, or park where they shouldn’t. They won’t drive under the influence of drink or drugs. They’ll never get tired or behave aggressively.
Once driverless cars are e on the road, human drivers should be banned
Self-driving cars could revolutionise people’s lives. By the end of the next decade, or perhaps even sooner, they could radically transform public spaces and liberate us from the many problems of mass car ownership. They’ll also be much better behaved than human drivers. Robot drivers won’t break the speed limit, jump the lights, or park where they shouldn’t. They won’t drive under the influence of drink or drugs. They’ll never get tired or behave aggressively.
Driverless cars: once they're on the road, human drivers should be banned
Self-driving cars could revolutionise people’s lives. By the end of the next decade, or perhaps even sooner, they could radically transform public spaces and liberate us from the many problems of mass car ownership. They’ll also be much better behaved than human drivers. Robot drivers won’t break the speed limit, jump the lights, or park where they shouldn’t. They won’t drive under the influence of drink or drugs. They’ll never get tired or behave aggressively.
Driverless cars: once they're on the road, human drivers should be banned
Credit: Shutterstock Self-driving cars could revolutionise people's lives. By the end of the next decade, or perhaps even sooner, they could radically transform public spaces and liberate us from the many problems of mass car ownership. They'll also be much better behaved than human drivers. Robot drivers won't break the speed limit, jump the lights, or park where they shouldn't. They won't drive under the influence of drink or drugs. They'll never get tired or behave aggressively.
once they're on the road, human drivers should be banned
Self-driving cars could revolutionise people’s lives. By the end of the next decade, or perhaps even sooner, they could radically transform public spaces and liberate us from the many problems of mass car ownership. They’ll also be much better behaved than human drivers. Robot drivers won’t break the speed limit, jump the lights, or park where they shouldn’t. They won’t drive under the influence of drink or drugs. They’ll never get tired or behave aggressively.
Driverless cars: once they're on the road, human drivers should be banned
Self-driving cars could revolutionise people’s lives. By the end of the next decade, or perhaps even sooner, they could radically transform public spaces and liberate us from the many problems of mass car ownership. They’ll also be much better behaved than human drivers. Robot drivers won’t break the speed limit, jump the lights, or park where they shouldn’t. They won’t drive under the influence of drink or drugs. They’ll never get tired or behave aggressively.
What existentialist philosophy reveals about prejudices
Boarding a train in France a few years after the Second World War, a medical student specialising in psychiatry at a prestigious university, a man who had previously volunteered and fought for the Free French forces against the Nazis, found himself being pointed out by a small child: ‘Look, a Negro! Maman, a Negro!’ For the student, those words triggered a psychic storm of associations and identification that crystallised the racism of his society into one intense episode of distress.
How We Can Reshape the Sedimented Outlook That Guides Our Behaviour
Is there any point thinking about what to do? It is often said that our judgements and behaviour are really caused by immediate intuitions and gut feelings, with reasoning happening only afterwards. But that claim misses an important point. Experiments also indicate that reasoning shapes the cognitive system that produces future responses.
Sedimentation: the existentialist challenge to stereotypes
By Jonathan Webber Is there any point thinking about what to do? It is often said that our judgments and behaviour are really caused by immediate intuitions and gut feelings, with reasoning happening only afterwards. But that claim misses an important point. Experiments also indicate that reasoning shapes the cognitive system that produces future responses.
Sedimentation: the existentialist challenge to stereotypes
Is there any point thinking about what to do? It is often said that our judgments and behaviour are really caused by immediate intuitions and gut feelings, with reasoning happening only afterwards. But that claim misses an important point. Experiments also indicate that reasoning shapes the cognitive system that produces future responses.
The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Existentialist
At the end of the second world war, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre launched the “existentialist offensive,” an ambitious campaign to shape a new cultural and political landscape. The word ‘existentialism’ was a popular neologism with no clear meaning. They wanted to profit from its media currency by making their philosophy its definition. Sartre’s talk “Existentialism is a Humanism” was an instant legend. The venue was packed, the crowd spilling into the street. Furniture got broken.
Deepwater Horizon oil spill just a hint of the threat of drilling off Florida’s coasts
In 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill became the worst environmental disaster in the history of the United States. Floridians and other residents of the Gulf Coast watched with horror as oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 harrowing days. Eleven men died in that tragedy, beaches closed along the Gulf and coastal businesses shuttered. Over 1 million animals — some extremely rare and threatened — perished as a result of the spill.
Rethinking Existentialism
In Rethinking Existentialism, Jonathan Webber articulates an original interpretation of existentialism as the ethical theory that human freedom is the foundation of all other values. Offering an original analysis of classic literary and philosophical works published by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Frantz Fanon up until 1952, Webber's conception of existentialism is developed in critical contrast with central works by Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
On the Trail of Edwin Way Teale
Audubon Florida's Dr. Paul Gray recounts his experience retracing the steps of Edwin Way Teale on Lake Okeechobee and the Kissimmee Prairie. Enjoy: Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980) won the only Pulitzer Prize in history for non-fiction nature writing, for his book entitled “Wandering Through Winter” (1965).
Head Off Centrifugal Pump Problems
The oil and gas industry heavily relies upon centrifugal pumps designed to meet API-610 specifications [1]. Familiarity with the pump head tolerances allowed under API-610 is necessary to avoid disappointment with the performance of the purchased pump and additional costs due to rework. These tolerances can result in significant deviation between the expected and actual performance for high-head pumps (e.g., injection or hydrocracker charge pumps).
Endangered Species Act's not broken; don't fix it
The Endangered Species Act is our nation’s most effective law for protecting wildlife in danger of extinction. Since its inception, the act has prevented more than 99 percent of listed species from going extinct, including several species located in the rapidly growing and developing state of Florida. Without the act, scientists estimate that between 1973 and 2005, more than 200 additional species would already be extinct or in extreme danger.
Viewpoint: Ban fracking in Florida
Fracking will be banned in Florida. It’s just a matter of when. And this year our state lawmakers have the opportunity to determine if it happens before or after a disaster. Conservation organizations, public health groups, unions, and citizens throughout the state have been working to pass legislation that would ban the dangerous practice of fracking in Florida. This year, two state lawmakers stepped up to lead the charge - Senator Dana Young and Representative Mike Miller.
Public lectures and events
Recorded on 21 February 2013 at Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Shame is often depicted as playing a socially negative role. But might it also play an important positive role in our moral psychology, and for a flourishing political community? Is shame a source of self-knowledge, and a spur to transformative action, as Sartre and Beauvoir suggest? How important are other people to one’s feeling of shame? And how should we think about the developmental origins of shame?
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