Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Philosophy and the Occult, paperback

The book explores the aesthetic and political implications of the relationship between magic and mimesis in the work of those early twentieth-century writers, artists and filmmakers who were most self-consciously experimental, including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein.

Survival or Sustainability? Contributions of Innovatively-Managed News Ventures to the Future of Egyptian Journalism

In the repressive political climate prevailing in Egypt in 2013-15, news ventures aspiring to high standards of reporting were forced to innovate. This paper analyses three Egyptian start-ups that experimented with novel revenue streams and news services during that period, to gain insights into their approaches to managing journalism. In the process it compares different criteria for assessing sustainability and concludes that, in adverse political environments, narrow economic measures of profitability and survival may give a misleading picture as to the sustainability of the kind of journalism conducive to democratic practice. Operating collaboratively, transparently and ethically may slow productivity and profitability in the short term while laying stronger foundations for durable relations among media teams, as well as with readers and advertisers, in the long run.

Priming psychic and conjuring abilities of a magic demonstration influences event interpretation and random number generation biases

Magical ideation and belief in the paranormal is considered to represent a trait-like character; people either believe in it or not. Yet, anecdotes indicate that exposure to an anomalous event can turn skeptics into believers. This transformation is likely to be accompanied by altered cognitive functioning such as impaired judgments of event likelihood. Here, we investigated whether the exposure to an anomalous event changes individuals' explicit traditional (religious) and non-traditional (e.g., paranormal) beliefs as well as cognitive biases that have previously been associated with non-traditional beliefs, e.g., repetition avoidance when producing random numbers in a mental dice task. In a classroom, 91 students saw a magic demonstration after their psychology lecture. Before the demonstration, half of the students were told that the performance was done respectively by a conjuror (magician group) or a psychic (psychic group). The instruction influenced participants' explanations of the anomalous event. Participants in the magician, as compared to the psychic group, were more likely to explain the event through conjuring abilities while the reverse was true for psychic abilities. Moreover, these explanations correlated positively with their prior traditional and non-traditional beliefs. Finally, we observed that the psychic group showed more repetition avoidance than the magician group, and this effect remained the same regardless of whether assessed before or after the magic demonstration. We conclude that pre-existing beliefs and contextual suggestions both influence people's interpretations of anomalous events and associated cognitive biases. Beliefs and associated cognitive biases are likely flexible well into adulthood and change with actual life events.

An Egyptian princess

UANL

Quaterninic Kähler manifolds, constrained instantons, and the magic square

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Of Eureka Moments and Magic Barometers: Freedom of Religion as the “First” Freedom in the Canadian Constitutional Context

"La liberté de religion, souvent reconnue comme étant la « première liberté » dans de nombreuses traditions juridiques, reflète également les différentes conceptions de la place de l'individu et de la communauté dans la société. Cet article examinera la liberté de religion dans le contexte constitutionnel canadien. Nous avons choisi d'étudier la liberté de religion dans trois vagues successives : avant l'entrée en vigueur de la Déclaration canadienne des droits, sous la Déclaration canadienne des droits; et enfin, après l'entrée en vigueur de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés. De plus, l'accommodement ainsi que de la proportionnalité de la liberté de religion d'un individu sera également traité. Ainsi que nous le démontrerons, la liberté de religion a engendré un repositionnement de l'individu face aux intérêts de la communauté ainsi qu'une réinterprétation des justifications menant à la sauvegarde de ces croyances."

Egyptian wheat

Wheat as the major cereal crop in Egypt is the core of the government's food security policy. But there are rapid losses of the genetic resources of the country as a result of ongoing modernization and development. Thus we compiled the largest possible number of Egyptian accessions preserved in the world gene banks. In the present study we collected nearly 1000 Egyptian wheat accessions. A part from the Triticum species of the Egyptian flora four species have been found, which were recorded for the first time T. turanicum, T. compactum, T. polonicum and T. aethiopicum. To classify the Egyptian wheat species using morphological studies, 108 accessions were selected. Thereafter, these accessions were cultivated and evaluated morphologically to confirm the validity of the classified species. During the morphological evaluation study, a new case was noticed for the number of glumes in one of the Egyptian wheat accessions. Three glumes per spikelet were observed in a branched spike. This led us to assess the phenomenon in all varieties with branching spikes within the genus Triticum. All varieties which have branching spikes at least in some spikletes have three glumes. We considered the case of the third glume as indicator for the domestication syndrome. Also, a new case of other forms of branching in the genus Triticum was investigated, which was a compromise between true and false-branching. We called it true-false branching. Comparative anatomical studies were carried out between Egyptian Triticum species to investigate the possibility of using anatomical features to classify the Egyptian wheat species. It was concluded that it is difficult to use anatomical features alone to differentiate between two Triticum species, especially when they belong to the same ploidy level. A key for the identification of Egyptian Triticum taxa was established.

My magic board.

Este proyecto tiene como objetivo incorporar las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación a los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje en los distintos ámbitos curriculares. Se trata de favorecer cambios en la organización y disposición de los recursos materiales, didácticos y personales. Para ello, se utiliza una pizarra digital interactiva y se crea, administra y gestiona comunidades virtuales dentro del portal educativo Educamadrid. Los contenidos se desarrollan en un aula virtual y a través de la pizarra digital se diseñan y planifican las actividades que se dividen en diez sesiones, cada una de dos horas, desde el mes de noviembre. Los contenidos abarcan distintas áreas del conocimiento: lengua, matemáticas e idiomas. Para la evaluación se utilizan técnicas cualitativas y cuantitativas como cuestionarios, entrevistas y observación directa..

The magic fountain by H.R.H. princess Gloriana.

Un cuento de hadas moderno es la base de una reveladora crítica a la publicación de famosos. La princesa Gloriana decide ser escritora, aunque ni la gramática, ni la ortografía, ni la puntuación sean sus puntos fuertes y escribe una obra de 34 palabras titulada la fuente mágica. No es una buena historia, en realidad es horrible, p ero no importa:Cuando eres de la casa real, escribir no es un problema. Cada uno de sus cortesanos hacen comentarios sobre lo maravilloso que es la historia y la princesa cree que es tan buena que debería ser publicada. El público en general se enfrenta con la elección de A: la compra de un ejemplar de la obra, o B: ir a la cárcel por un período de seis meses. De pronto, obviamente,la obra se convierte en un éxito. La Princesa se encuentra muy solicitada en los programas de artes y espectáculos de televisión, de chats e incluso en la portada de una revista. La llegada del Príncipe Waldo le proporciona una nueva historia con final feliz.

Cosmo and the magic sneeze.

La historia de un gatito blanco y negro llamado Cosmo y sus padres, India y Mephisto. Mephisto es un gato de brujas, un gato que puede utilizar su magia para ayudar a estornudar a una bruja en sus hechizos, mientras que India es un gato doméstico normal. Cosmo tiene que pasar una prueba especial para ver si es más como Mephisto o India. Cuando pasa la prueba especial, es capaz de ayudar a estornudar a la bruja Sybil y llevar a cabo la magia estornudo que añade el ingrediente extra-especial al caldero. Sybil y su madre, Eufemia, están haciendo una poción secreta para un hechizo que produce estatuas de oro y Scarlett, Bunty y Cosmo tienen que averiguar cuáles son los componentes de la poción, antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Sobre todo porque las estatuas tienen forma de gatitos.