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In the book Antifragile the author mentions the skeptical-empirical postclassical school of medicine in the Eastern Mediterranean rediscovered by the French a century ago. Can anyone identify this school at all? Thanks. μηδείς ( talk) 03:05, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
In one of the Star Trek movies Mr. Spock and Cmdr. Data meet, and they notice various differences between them, and list them. Does anyone have that list? Could they enumerate them here? Michael Hardy ( talk) 04:30, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
I have always had this doubt - Why is that people become social entrepreneurs and why do donors support them? What is the whole point ?
Yes NGOs / Non -Profits would fall under the category of social entrepreneurs.
It's no secret that per capita, the US has far more scientists, more funding of science, and more scientific research/industry positions than the first-world countries of western Europe. Why is this the case? Naively, it seems that Europe has a longer scientific tradition, better average education level, and higher public perception of science. Yet despite rare exceptions like Planck or the LHC in cosmology/physics respectively, every scientific field is dominated by the US. I'm certainly not complaining, but I'm curious to know why this is the case. -- 50.125.164.23 ( talk) 21:21, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
I think most people know about the Christmas truce of 1914, where British and German soldiers played football together in no-man's land all across the front. Are there any other instances of similar things happening in other wars? Instances of this in any war of any era is of interest to me here. Cheers! KägeTorä - (影虎) ( TALK) 21:37, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
How about enemy pilots ,shot down in both World Wars being given dinner in the officers mess? Hotclaws ( talk) 04:42, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
Catholic churches with Saturday evening Masses are quite common in the Great Lakes region of the USA, and I'd guess that they're common elsewhere in the country and perhaps elsewhere in the world — but I can't remember seeing any signs mentioning Masses on other days, except for the occasional church with Masses every day. Why Saturday but not other non-Sunday days? One would think that the presence of a Saturday Mass means that they're not doctrinally tied to Sundays as most Protestants are. If you go to Mass on Saturday so you have more time on Sunday, it would seem that you'd also be interested in Mass after work so that you can fulfill your religious obligations and have a completely free weekend. N.B. I'm a Protestant and not intimately familiar with contemporary Catholic practices, so maybe there's some reason that's well known to your average Mass-hearer in the pew. Nyttend ( talk) 21:37, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
It's not just about Saturday masses; it's about fulfilling the obligation to attend mass on Sunday by attending on the previous day; similarly a Catholic can fulfill the obligation to attend a Christmas mass by attending on Christmas eve (and similarly for other holy days of obligation). I think in the '60s after the Second Vatican Council, the pope decided to delegate to bishops the question of whether to allow this, and most of them in turn delegated it to parish priests, and they in turn let their congregations vote on it. So the rules may vary with the locality. That obligatory public worship has been on Sundays rather than, for example, Wednesdays, has never been considered infallible dogma in the Catholic church, but rather is a rule of discipline subject to mutation by church authorities. There is a neighborhood in Minneapolis, about four miles from where I live, where _five_ Catholic churches are within about three blocks of each other, and I think two of those are eastern-rite churches. One of those last is a Maronite church, meaning it's largely for Arab Catholics. That means it's not subject to the local archdiocese, but ultimately reports to the Maronite patriarch in Lebanon, and follows "eastern" disciplines that, for example, allow ordination of married men to the priesthood. And while riding my bike around that neighborhood a few weeks ago, I observed that a liturgy was just ending, and people leaving the building, on a Saturday evening. Since they follow rules issued from Lebanon, I have to think that this is not just local. Michael Hardy ( talk) 05:16, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
At the outset, let me make it clear that this isn't intended as advocacy either of a monarchist or a republican stance. Responses simply advocating either one without approaching an answer to my question are not welcome. It is a hypothetical question – please don't bother answering with "constitutionally that couldn't happen" answers either. The assumption in the question is that it has happened.
My question is this: In the event of Elizabeth II of the UK abdicating and furthermore signing documents which irrevocably ended the UK's monarchy, how would the UK choose a President? Firstly who would be eligible for the position? Secondly (if it were down to a referendum) how would this work? Tonywalton Talk 22:50, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Based on past precedent (and the fact that precedents and traditions are important in the UK), I would say that whoever managed to have Elizabeth II's head chopped off would be eligible to become president. Surtsicna ( talk) 23:43, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
The Queen has no power to terminate the Monarchy. If she abdicates, Charles becomes King automatically. The UK can only be changed from monarchy to republic by Parliament, so a law would be drafted that the Queen is no longer Queen, and a plan for how to run a presidential election. The UK also had to make special arrangements for referendums on alternative vote and Scottish independence. The name, United Kingdom, would also need a re-think. No-one with any influence worth respecting seriously expects anything other than the existing monarchy to continue for many, many decades, so the following point is moot: I think the UK would keep the parliamentary system. A president would be a ceremonial figurehead like, say, Germany and Israel. The French or American style presidential system would take far more constitutional upheaval than UK lawmakers can be bothered with. 92.17.0.133 ( talk) 19:45, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
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In the book Antifragile the author mentions the skeptical-empirical postclassical school of medicine in the Eastern Mediterranean rediscovered by the French a century ago. Can anyone identify this school at all? Thanks. μηδείς ( talk) 03:05, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
In one of the Star Trek movies Mr. Spock and Cmdr. Data meet, and they notice various differences between them, and list them. Does anyone have that list? Could they enumerate them here? Michael Hardy ( talk) 04:30, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
I have always had this doubt - Why is that people become social entrepreneurs and why do donors support them? What is the whole point ?
Yes NGOs / Non -Profits would fall under the category of social entrepreneurs.
It's no secret that per capita, the US has far more scientists, more funding of science, and more scientific research/industry positions than the first-world countries of western Europe. Why is this the case? Naively, it seems that Europe has a longer scientific tradition, better average education level, and higher public perception of science. Yet despite rare exceptions like Planck or the LHC in cosmology/physics respectively, every scientific field is dominated by the US. I'm certainly not complaining, but I'm curious to know why this is the case. -- 50.125.164.23 ( talk) 21:21, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
I think most people know about the Christmas truce of 1914, where British and German soldiers played football together in no-man's land all across the front. Are there any other instances of similar things happening in other wars? Instances of this in any war of any era is of interest to me here. Cheers! KägeTorä - (影虎) ( TALK) 21:37, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
How about enemy pilots ,shot down in both World Wars being given dinner in the officers mess? Hotclaws ( talk) 04:42, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
Catholic churches with Saturday evening Masses are quite common in the Great Lakes region of the USA, and I'd guess that they're common elsewhere in the country and perhaps elsewhere in the world — but I can't remember seeing any signs mentioning Masses on other days, except for the occasional church with Masses every day. Why Saturday but not other non-Sunday days? One would think that the presence of a Saturday Mass means that they're not doctrinally tied to Sundays as most Protestants are. If you go to Mass on Saturday so you have more time on Sunday, it would seem that you'd also be interested in Mass after work so that you can fulfill your religious obligations and have a completely free weekend. N.B. I'm a Protestant and not intimately familiar with contemporary Catholic practices, so maybe there's some reason that's well known to your average Mass-hearer in the pew. Nyttend ( talk) 21:37, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
It's not just about Saturday masses; it's about fulfilling the obligation to attend mass on Sunday by attending on the previous day; similarly a Catholic can fulfill the obligation to attend a Christmas mass by attending on Christmas eve (and similarly for other holy days of obligation). I think in the '60s after the Second Vatican Council, the pope decided to delegate to bishops the question of whether to allow this, and most of them in turn delegated it to parish priests, and they in turn let their congregations vote on it. So the rules may vary with the locality. That obligatory public worship has been on Sundays rather than, for example, Wednesdays, has never been considered infallible dogma in the Catholic church, but rather is a rule of discipline subject to mutation by church authorities. There is a neighborhood in Minneapolis, about four miles from where I live, where _five_ Catholic churches are within about three blocks of each other, and I think two of those are eastern-rite churches. One of those last is a Maronite church, meaning it's largely for Arab Catholics. That means it's not subject to the local archdiocese, but ultimately reports to the Maronite patriarch in Lebanon, and follows "eastern" disciplines that, for example, allow ordination of married men to the priesthood. And while riding my bike around that neighborhood a few weeks ago, I observed that a liturgy was just ending, and people leaving the building, on a Saturday evening. Since they follow rules issued from Lebanon, I have to think that this is not just local. Michael Hardy ( talk) 05:16, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
At the outset, let me make it clear that this isn't intended as advocacy either of a monarchist or a republican stance. Responses simply advocating either one without approaching an answer to my question are not welcome. It is a hypothetical question – please don't bother answering with "constitutionally that couldn't happen" answers either. The assumption in the question is that it has happened.
My question is this: In the event of Elizabeth II of the UK abdicating and furthermore signing documents which irrevocably ended the UK's monarchy, how would the UK choose a President? Firstly who would be eligible for the position? Secondly (if it were down to a referendum) how would this work? Tonywalton Talk 22:50, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Based on past precedent (and the fact that precedents and traditions are important in the UK), I would say that whoever managed to have Elizabeth II's head chopped off would be eligible to become president. Surtsicna ( talk) 23:43, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
The Queen has no power to terminate the Monarchy. If she abdicates, Charles becomes King automatically. The UK can only be changed from monarchy to republic by Parliament, so a law would be drafted that the Queen is no longer Queen, and a plan for how to run a presidential election. The UK also had to make special arrangements for referendums on alternative vote and Scottish independence. The name, United Kingdom, would also need a re-think. No-one with any influence worth respecting seriously expects anything other than the existing monarchy to continue for many, many decades, so the following point is moot: I think the UK would keep the parliamentary system. A president would be a ceremonial figurehead like, say, Germany and Israel. The French or American style presidential system would take far more constitutional upheaval than UK lawmakers can be bothered with. 92.17.0.133 ( talk) 19:45, 24 July 2013 (UTC)