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In 1996, physicist Alan Sokal wrote a nonsensical article entitled " Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity ".
Sokal wrote " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity ", an article proposing that quantum gravity has progressive political implications, and that the " morphogenetic field " ( characterized by Sokal as " a bizarre New Age concept due to Rupert Sheldrake ") could be a cutting-edge theory of quantum gravity.
" Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity " was the only article submitted by a natural scientist.
The editors argued that, in that context, Sokal's article, " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity ", was a fraudulent betrayal of their trust.
In the May 1996 issue of Lingua Franca, in the article " A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ", Sokal revealed that his " Transgressing the Boundaries " was a hoax and concluded that Social Text " felt comfortable publishing an article on quantum physics without bothering to consult anyone knowledgeable in the subject " because of its ideological proclivities and editorial bias.
Moreover, independent of the hoax, as a pseudoscientific opus, the articleTransgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravityis described as an exemplar “ pastiche of left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense, centered on the claim that physical reality is merely a social construct .”
Physicist Alan Sokal had submitted an article to Social Text titled " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity ," which proposed that quantum gravity is a linguistic and social construct and that quantum physics supports postmodernist criticisms of scientific objectivity.
Later, in the May 1996 issue of Lingua Franca, in the article " A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ", Prof. Sokal exposed his parody-article, " Transgressing the Boundaries " as an experiment testing the intellectual rigor of an academic journal that would " publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if ( a ) it sounded good and ( b ) it flattered the editors ’ ideological preconceptions ".

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Professor Christie Davies, author of this theory, has posed the main arguments in his article Ethnic Jokes, Moral Values and Social Boundaries, published in 1982.
# It illustrates No Boundaries, an educational article about that album, from which the cover illustration was taken.
# The album cover is used as the primary means of visual identification of No Boundaries, the article topic.

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* Towards Real Microkernels – Contains numerous performance measurements, including those quoted in the article
* Towards pervasive computing in health care – A literature review, article in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making ( Open Access journal ) by Carsten Orwat, Andreas Graefe and Timm Faulwasser.
Towards the end of his undergraduate degree he became a contributor to the Westminster Review with his first article entitled " Electrotype and Daguerreotype ," published in September 1840.
* Pauly D, Christensen V, Guénette S, Pitcher TJ, Sumaila UR, Walters CJ, Watson R and Zeller D ( 2002 ) " Towards sustainability in world fisheries " Review article.
Towards Reformed doctrine of eucharist this had become evident already in 1540, when Melanchthon had published another version of the Augsburg Confession (" Variata "), in which the article on the Real Presence differed essentially from what had been expressed in 1530.
An article by Michael Freyhan entitled " Towards the Original Text of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte ," attempts to address this issue.
* Towards a Cartography of Japanese Anime: Anno Hideaki's >> Evangelion <<-Through an interview with Hiroki Azuma dealing with Evangelion the article sheds light on the origins of the Moe phenomenon
* F. S. Litten: The Myth of the ' Turning-Point ' - Towards a New Understanding of the Long March ( article in ' Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung ', 2001 )
In her article,Towards a Gendered Human Poverty Measure ”, Elizabeth Durbin critiques HPI and expands on the possibility of a gender-sensitive index.
" and in the 1999 article " Towards Model of Strategy Making as Serious Play " published by European Management Journal.

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A Reformed Confession Regarding Hermeneutics ( article 6 ).

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In his article entitled " Criticism and Counterproposals to the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory ," countering the view of Alexandrov that ( in Heisenberg's paraphrase ) " the wave function in configuration space characterizes the objective state of the electron.
" In an article in the Guardian titled Quantum weirdness: What we call ' reality ' is just a state of mind d ' Espagnat wrote that:
He submitted an article entitled " Time and Classical and Quantum Mechanics: Indeterminacy vs. Discontinuity " to the journal Foundations of Physics Letters.
In May 2001, the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity ( CQG ) reviewed an article authored by Igor and Grichka Bogdanov, entitled " Topological theory of the initial singularity of spacetime ".
* Original article on the Quantum Hall Effect: K. v. Klitzing, G. Dorda, and M. Pepper ; Phys.
** Carlo Rovelli, Loop Quantum Gravity, Living Reviews in Relativity 1, ( 1998 ), 1, online article, 2001 15 August version.
During this period he composed an article called " Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics ," which he did not submit for publication, but which became the title of his 1993 book.
*" Quantum mechanics writ large ", article about walking droplets by John W. M. Bush, Cambridge University ( 2010 ).
* Jaffe, Arthur ; Constructive Quantum Field Theory ( pdf ) review article from Mathematical Physics 2000 p. 111.
Quantum chromodynamics ( QCD ), the theory of strong particle interactions, provides the best known example in nature ; see the article on the QCD vacuum for details.
In 2006 he co-authored the controversial review article Quantum Field Theory: Where We Are to be published in the book An Assessment of Current Paradigms in the Physics of Fundamental Phenomena.

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*" Physicist Disputes Speed of Gravity Claim "-American Physical Society News article, dated June 2003, describing criticism of the results
* NASA article on the technologies used in Gravity Probe B
As the band was forming in 1994, keyboardist Doug Firley was reading an article where he misread what he thought said " like the Gravity Kills.
* Farewell to Gravity ( Wired article by Xeni Jardin )

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* " For Want of a Genre ", article by Christopher M. Cevasco.
Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, " without breast ", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their left breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction ; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the left is frequently covered ( see photos in article ).
Carnegie wrote " The Gospel of Wealth ", an article in which he stated his belief that the rich should use their wealth to help enrich society.
: In this article, inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies of British America that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as " Americans ," with occasional references to " Patriots ", " Whigs ," " Rebels " or " Revolutionaries ".
His 1939 memorial article for Sapir, " The Relation of Habitual Thought And Behavior to Language ", in particular has been taken to be Whorf's definitive statement of the issue, and is his most frequently quoted piece.
This article therefore avoids the terms " facultative " and " obligate ", and focuses on the range of styles of locomotion normally used by various groups of animals.
" Although the plane came down only five miles northwest of the airport, no one saw or heard the crash ", wrote rock performer, archivist and music historian, Harry Hepcat, in his article about Buddy Holly.
Two years later, Fate magazine published " Sea Mystery at Our Back Door ", a short article by George X.
The most important single article of the Magna Carta, related to " habeas corpus ", provided that the king was not permitted to imprison, outlaw, exile or kill anyone at a whim — there must be due process of law first.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his famous article, " The Path of the Law ", commented, " It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.
The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.
It eventually became the journal's " most influential target article ", generating an enormous number of commentaries and responses in the ensuing decades.
*" Former Military Astronaut Among Hijack Victims ", an article by Robert Pearlman on the SPACE. com website, dated September 16, 2001
Nevertheless, the cane toad was assumed to have controlled the white-grub ; this view was reinforced by a Nature article titled " Toads save sugar crop ", and this led to large-scale introductions throughout many parts of the Pacific.
*" Mail: Unchained ", an article taking an in-depth look at the construction and usage of European chainmail
* Old Norse: The definite article was the enclitic-inn ,-in ,-itt ( masculine, feminine and neuter nominative singular ), as in álfrinn " the elf ", gjǫfin " the gift ", and tréit " the tree ", an abbreviated form of the independent pronoun hinn, cognate of the German pronoun jener.
This article uses the term " content control ", a term also used on occasion by CNN, Playboy magazine the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times.
He uses the Latin " Cogito ergo sum " in the later Principles of Philosophy ( 1644 ), Part 1, article 7: "" At that time, the argument had become popularly known in the English speaking world as " the '' argument ", which is usually shortened to "" when referring to the principle virtually everywhere else.
In his article " The Christian Mythology of Socialism ", Will Herberg argues that socialism inherits the structure of its ideology from the influence of Christian mythology upon western thought.
On a small island, in a tiny hut on stilts, he first read Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", which greatly inspired him.
In 1945, Engelbart had read with interest Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", a call to action for making knowledge widely available as a national peacetime grand challenge.
* Knuth's article about the computational complexity of songs, " The Complexity of Songs ", was reprinted twice in computer science journals.
( For some more information about the early development, see the article " Gracht ", section " Delft as an example ").

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