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Keil, Frank C., and Kristi L. Lockhart. "Beyond Cause: The Development of Clockwork Cognition." Current Directions in Psychological Science 30, no. 2 (April 2021): 167–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963721421992341.

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Thinking of the world in mechanistic terms—how things work—is both cognitively natural and motivating for humans from the preschool years onward. Mechanisms have distinct structural properties that go far beyond mere causal facts. They typically contain layers of causal clusters and the systematic interactions between those clusters that give rise to the next level up. Following developments in the philosophy of science and studies on children’s questioning behaviors, recent research shows that, from an early age, people appreciate the informational and inductive potential of mechanistic information. People selectively notice and choose mechanistic explanations as especially useful opportunities for learning; but they also soon forget the details of what they encounter. We argue that enduring cognitive abstractions from such details provide powerful ways of accessing and evaluating expertise in other people.
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Smyslova, Ekaterina V., and Liliya F. Khabibullina. "Aesthetics as an Aspect of Good in Enderby Novels by Anthony Burgess." Journal of History Culture and Art Research 6, no. 5 (November 28, 2017): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.7596/taksad.v6i5.1263.

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<p>This article considers the interaction of ethics and aesthetics in A. Burgess's worldview. It is based on an analysis of the novels about the minor poet Enderby, who is interpreted as the writer's alter ego. The material for the article is represented by the novels "Inside Mr. Enderby", "Enderby outside", "The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End", "Enderby's Dark Lady", or "No End of Enderby". Particular attention is paid to the personality of the protagonist and his worldview. In the course of the analysis, the superficial interpretations of Enderby's image and the system of his relationships with the outside world are rejected in favor of deeper ones, arising from the system of the author's outlooks on creativity. The material of other writer's novels is also attracted to the study ("A Clockwork Orange", "The Wanting Seed", "Little Wilson and Big God", etc), where his religious and ethical views are most clearly manifested. The analysis of Burgess's search for faith, his path from congenital Catholicism through Manichaeism to the development of his own religious and ethical picture of the world has been performed in this paper. It has shown that according to Burgess the Beauty is of primary value and the writer is seen as the creator of such a world view where the original duality of reality can be overcome through the language.</p>
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Ahmed, Mohammad Kaosar, and Md Mizanur Rahman. "Reading Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange: Cultural Oddities and Their Social Impact." IIUC Studies 7 (November 6, 2012): 63–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/iiucs.v7i0.12260.

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Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange (1962) portrays the disintegration of the traditional British culture and the rise of a new youth culture in revolt which produced violence and perversity. This youth culture started pervading the layers of the traditional British culture. The 1960s had found the British culture assuming a distorted shape both in values and norms - a culture completely opposite to its original tradition in terms of the socioeconomic changes that took place following the Second World War. The postwar generation had to peep into the collapsed world from a perspective quite different from the previous one because of the rising tension emerging out of a new threat from nuclear war hanging overhead. This paper seeks to explore the extent to which the newly emerged culture affected the young generation and brought about chaos and disorder in British society. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/iiucs.v7i0.12260 IIUC Studies Vol.7 2011: 63-72
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Code, David J. "Don Juan in Nadsat: Kubrick's Music for A Clockwork Orange." Journal of the Royal Musical Association 139, no. 2 (2014): 339–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690403.2014.944823.

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ABSTRACTThe critical reception of Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971) often circles around two related questions: its relationship to Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel and the implications of its classical ‘compilation’ soundtrack. Revisiting both, this article challenges the pervasive emphasis in existing musicological literature on the film's use of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by offering a formal analysis of its excerpts by (among others) Rossini, Elgar and Purcell. A fresh look at Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary (1695) serves to open a dramatic lineage leading back to the seventeenth-century ‘Don Juan’ archetype, which brings in tow the vast musicological literature on Don Giovanni along with philosophical accounts from Kierkegaard through Bernard Williams. The film's notorious references to Gene Kelly's dance routine in Singin’ in the Rain (1952) add to its confrontation with individual and collective ideals of ‘liberty’ a cinematic reflexivity that can serve (with some help from Marshall McLuhan's influential 1964 study Understanding Media) to shed new light on Luis Buñuel's assertion that this is ‘the only movie about what the modern world really means’.
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Streeck, Wolfgang. "Comment on “On History and Policy: Time in the Age of Neoliberalism”." Journal of the Philosophy of History 9, no. 1 (March 27, 2015): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341289.

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It is not only economics that needs to regain a sense of history but also much of social science. Like economists social scientists need to liberate themselves from a Newtonian clockwork view of the world, and from a view of social reality as an emanation and arbitrary illustration of universal laws governing social life in general. Social science needs a renewed awareness of its origins in a systematic theory of historical social development and evolution, of endogenous social dynamics, and of directionality of social and institutional change, especially in contemporary capitalism, free from historical teleology and economic determinism.
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ALLEN, THOMAS. "Clockwork Nation: Modern Time, Moral Perfectionism and American Identity in Catharine Beecher and Henry Thoreau." Journal of American Studies 39, no. 1 (April 2005): 65–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875805009254.

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The economy of time, and our obligation to spend every hour for some useful end, are what few minds properly realize. Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841)There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (1854)In his seminal 1967 essay “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism,” E. P. Thompson codified the theory that modern life, characterized by capitalism and industry, would not be possible without the regulating, organizing, and disciplining power of the clock. The theory of clock time's importance to modernity, first proposed by Georg Simmel around the turn of the twentieth century and later adopted by Lewis Mumford, became conventional wisdom among social and economic historians writing after Thompson's brilliant exposition. The introduction of mechanical clocks into factories in England, Thompson argues, resulted in a “restructuring of working habits” and a concomitant change in the “inward notation of time” that led individuals to accept the industrial revolution's basic premises of quantifiable wage labor and systematic production. According to Thompson's successors, historians such as David Landes, the relationship between clocks and other forms of modernization has been recursive; advances in technology have made it possible to measure time more accurately, and this greater accuracy has in turn facilitated greater productivity, more efficient transportation networks (think of railroad timetables), and the punctuality so important to modern business. Moreover, political theorists have argued that the ubiquitous experience of precisely measured time has been fundamental to linking individuals into self-consciously modern national groups, “imagined communities” in Benedict Anderson's terms, moving forward together through a shared historical simultaneity. The result of temporal modernization, this very diverse group of thinkers agrees, has been a world made over both economically and politically to suit the clockwork rationality of the capitalist market.
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Živak, Biljana Milovanović. "The Meaning of Writing in the New Century." Transcultural Studies 11, no. 1 (December 23, 2015): 47–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23751606-01101006.

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This paper deals with issues of books survival and literature in the new century, considering the theme in correlation with the essential elements that define it: how the development of new technologies, especially the Internet and social networks, affects bookstores, libraries and publishing houses, but also the language and an alphabet (a creation of new, pictorial letters in modern communication), themes of countries in transition contemporary literature (war) that affect the sense of writing and literature survival in general. By associations of the past imposed on the present, “Big Brother” and “A Clockwork Orange”, and a trip to the Amazon region tribes , which in the 21st century do not have their alphabet, it is trying to provide a vision of the modern world, in which writing and books in their physical form survive as human needs, where the sense of writing leads to equalization with the meaning of life.
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Tampu, Diana, and Carmen Costea. "Why society is a complex problem? A review of Philip Ball’s book – Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science." Journal of Economic Development, Environment and People 2, no. 1 (March 22, 2013): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.26458/jedep.v2i1.34.

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The 21st century is burdened by a series of dramatic changes and efforts are carried out to find potential solutions to consumerism, access to information, transient climate disequilibria, health care and demographic transformations. A new page in human history will bear witness to the introduction of new ways of thinking, new changes, new relationships and interconnections that transcend states and societies. The moment is ripe for individuals aware of the implications carried by global changes and challenges, to step up and encourage responsibility and sustainable development. Mankind is currently living in a data-rich world, where information is widely dispersed. Nevertheless, extracting the right assumptions and conclusions from the available data proves difficult as numerous social phenomena do not run with clockwork precision as the laws governing the Newtonian universe.Human awareness and intelligence demand a more responsible approach to all operations and steps should be made in determining the consequences and their impact. The goal of this paper is not restricted to providing a review but also to enforce certain ideas in relation to the complex interactions specific to society and economic activities.
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Penwill, J. L. "Reflections on a ‘Happy Ending’: The Case of Cupid and Psyche." Ramus 27, no. 2 (1998): 160–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0048671x00001880.

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The yo-yo problem: first Psyche is mortal and exposed as though for death (DOWN); then she is rescued and cohabits with Cupid (UP); then she falls from Cupid (DOWN); then she searches and with help almost succeeds in her trials (UP); then she fails and lies in a sleep like death (DOWN); then she is rescued by and married to Cupid (UP).Ken Dowden, ‘Psyche on the Rock’ (1982)Well I've been down so goddam' long, that it looks like up to me.Jim Morrison, ‘Been Down So Long’ (1971)Bella fabella (‘beautiful little story’) exclaims the ass at the conclusion of the unnamed old woman's narration of the tale that we have come to know as ‘Cupid and Psyche’, a tale that occupies 63 chapters of books 4, 5 and 6 of Apuleius' Metamorphoses. The beauty of the tale is enhanced by the contrast with its setting: a bandits' cave whose inhabitants' heroicisation of violence and thuggery is very much in the spirit of Homer's Cyclops or Little Alex in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, and an audience that comprises two individuals wrenched from their homes and families by these bandits' depredations—Charite, the kidnapped girl, and Lucius, lashed into assisting in the ransacking of his host Milo's house in Hypata. The tale transports us into a world of romance and fairy tale far removed from the difficulties and dangers of what is portrayed as the real world in Metamorphoses 1-10.
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Bendová, Zdeňka, and Simona Moravcová. "Erasing day/night differences in light intensity and spectrum affect biodiversity and the health of mammals by confusing the circadian clock." Lynx new series 49, no. 1 (2017): 139–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/lynx-2018-0012.

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The beneficial effect of sunlight on all forms of life has been well-known to human cultures worldwide throughout history. However, the importance of darkness for survival, successful reproduction and the overall fitness of all organisms is fully appreciated only by physiologists and environmental biologists. Seasonal variations in environmental conditions (i.e., rainfall, temperature, barometric pressure, food availability) significantly affect reproduction and survival but they are of little predictive value. In contrast, daily fluctuations in light levels and the light spectrum are less dramatic in their impact on life, but were highly predictable throughout evolution. Natural selection has thus favored a strategy of monitoring a day’s length as a predictor of changes in external conditions by the development of the molecular circadian clock, which is sensitive to changes in light/darkness during the day and night. Well-synchronized circadian clockwork ensures that behavioral and physiological processes fluctuate with the daily solar cycle and programs the seasonal changes in physiology via the transduction of the photoperiod into hormonal messages. During the last two decades, energy-efficient lighting technology has shifted from “yellow” high-pressure sodium vapor lamps to new “white” light-emitting diodes (LEDs). As a consequence, nighttime light pollution increased, and the sharp difference between day and night has been erased in many parts of the world, which threatens animal ecology and human health. Studies on humans, laboratory mammals and wildlife suggest that the physiological costs of living under artificial light at night (ALAN) may be due to the disruption of circadian and circannual timing. This overview summarizes the recent findings on the effect of the blurred day/night difference on the circadian clock, nighttime melatonin secretion and photoperiodic changes in mammals and suggests that the gradual decline of fitness due to the increasing ALAN measured in the human population may contribute to the changes in mammalian biodiversity in nature.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Clockwork world"

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Wilson, Mark Robert. "Historicizing Maps of Hell." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1115503544.

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Books on the topic "Clockwork world"

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Dolnick, Edward. Clockwork universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the birth of the modern world. New York, NY: Harper, 2011.

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The clockwork universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the birth of the modern world. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2011.

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Distance Teaching for the Third World: The Lion and the Clockwork Mouse. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Dodds, Tony, Michael Young, Hilary Perraton, and Janet Jenkins. Distance Teaching for the Third World: The Lion and the Clockwork Mouse. Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.

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Clockwork Futures: The Science of Steampunk and the Reinvention of the Modern World. Pegasus Books, 2017.

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Clockwork Futures: The Science of Steampunk and the Reinvention of the Modern World. Pegasus Books, 2018.

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Burnham, Karen. Scientific Analysis. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038419.003.0005.

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This chapter addresses the scientific underpinnings of several of Greg Egan's novels. It first considers the “subjective cosmology” of the universes depicted in Quarantine, Permutation City, and Distress, with their attendant quantum mechanical weirdness. Next, it tackles theories about how our own universe works as seen in the novels Diaspora, Schild's Ladder, and Incandescence. Finally, the chapter provides a rough overview of the alternate-world physics shown in the Orthogonal trilogy, with a particular focus on Clockwork Rocket and Eternal Flame, the two volumes published at the time of writing. It concludes with a section on Egan's use of scientific principles as metaphors for larger philosophical points.
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Parker, Philip M. The 2007-2012 World Outlook for Manufacturing and Assembling Clocks, Watches, Timing Mechanisms for Clockwork-Operated Devices, Time Clocks, Time and Date ... and Clock and Watch Parts Excluding Crystals. ICON Group International, Inc., 2006.

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Happy Birthday - Doctor Who - Clockworld World. bbc uk, 2011.

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Økland, Jorunn. Death and the Maiden. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198722618.003.0002.

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In a comparative study of the manifesto genre, the chapter selects three manifestos that from the outset shares common traits, including glorification of death and violence, a preoccupation with gender, the ‘laying bare’ of future events, all from a marginal position in the present. The three are the biblical Book of Revelation, Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto, and Breivik’s 2083: A European Declaration of Independence. The modern manifestos demonstrate genre similarities and a continuity in themes, preoccupations compared to Revelation, but postulating direct dependence would mean going too far. Instead, the chapter demonstrates how the misogynist ideology of Revelation lives on in the clockwork of the genre it helped to create, long after any detailed knowledge of the text itself is forgotten.
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Book chapters on the topic "Clockwork world"

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Spaan, Matthijs, Marco Wiering, Robert Bartelds, Raymond Donkervoort, Pieter Jonker, and Frans Groen. "Clockwork Orange: The Dutch RoboSoccer Team." In RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V, 627–30. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45603-1_99.

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"How we see the world." In Our Celestial Clockwork, 1–26. WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789811214608_0001.

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Ruse, Michael. "Machines." In On Purpose, 42–60. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691195957.003.0003.

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This chapter discusses the Scientific Revolution that is dated from the publication of Nicolaus Copernicus's On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in 1543, the work that put the sun rather than the earth at the center of the universe to Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in 1687, the work that gave the causal underpinnings of the whole system as developed over the previous one hundred and fifty years. Historian Rupert Hall put his finger precisely on the real change that occurred in the revolution. It was not so much the physical theories, although these were massive and important. It was rather a change of metaphors or models—from that of an organism to that of a machine. By the sixteenth century, machines were becoming ever more common and ever more sophisticated. It was natural therefore for people to start thinking of the world—the universe—as a machine, especially since some of the most elaborate of the new machines were astronomical clocks that had the planets and the sun and moon moving through the heavens, not by human force but by predestined contraptions. In a word, by clockwork!
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Miller, Gavin. "Behaviourism and social constructionism." In Science Fiction and Psychology, 127–66. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620603.003.0003.

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This chapter explores science fiction’s deployment of behaviourism and social constructionism, which insist on the malleability of human psychology. B.F. Skinner’s near-future utopia. Walden Two (1948), authorizes the behaviourist model of the self by inscribing operant conditioning into long-standing progressivist discourses. But this is subverted by the novel itself, which persistently endorses historical, philosophical, and ethical discourses that have supposedly been rendered obsolete. Behaviourism is further undermined by Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange (1962), Ursula Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven (1971), and William Sleator’s House of Stairs (1974). These narratives juxtapose against behaviourism counter-discourses from different sources, including wisdom traditions such as world religions, and also antagonistic discourses such as psychoanalysis and existentialism. Social constructionism encourages science fiction to dissolve psychological and cultural givens of our time (such as heterosexuality or patriarchy) in a future or alternative social order. With enormously varying complexity and ethical sensitivity, Joanna Russ’s The Female Man (1975), Edmund Cooper’s 1972 Who Needs Men? and Naomi Mitchison’s Solution Three (1974), explore the utopian and dystopian reconstruction of gender relations, but are troubled by issues of natural and cultural diversity.
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"6. The broken toy tactic: Clockwork worlds and activist games." In The Playful Citizen, 121–37. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9789048535200-007.

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"3. Activist Game Rhetoric : Clockwork Worlds, Broken Toys, And Harrowing Missions." In The Player's Power to Change the Game, 61–84. Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9789048525645-004.

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Zalasiewicz, Jan, and Mark Williams. "Between Greenhouse and Icehouse." In The Goldilocks Planet. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199593576.003.0009.

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There is a celebrated Flemish painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It depicts the age-old battle between Carnival and Lent. Carnival—a time of high spirits, led in this vision by a fat man on a beer-barrel, carousing and brandishing a pig’s head on a spit—is opposed by Lent, deflating the happy excitement and bringing in a time of sobriety and abstinence. Bruegel’s understanding of these opposed rhythms of rural life in the sixteenth-century Netherlands was acute: he was nicknamed ‘Peasant Bruegel’ for his habit of dressing like the local people, to mingle unnoticed with the crowds, all the better to observe their lives and activities. Bruegel’s vision of the age-old rhythm of life, in the form of an eternal oscillation between two opposing modes, may be taken to a wider stage. From the late Archaean to the end of the Proterozoic, the Earth has alternated between two climate modes. Long episodes of what may be regarded as rather dull stability, best exemplified by what some scientists refer to as the ‘boring billion’ of the mid-Proterozoic, are punctuated by the briefer, though more satisfyingly dramatic, glacial events. This alternation of Earth states persisted into the last half-billion years of this planet’s history—that is, into the current eon, the Phanerozoic. If anything, the pattern became more pronounced, as if it had become an integral part of the Earth’s slowly moving clockwork. There were three main Phanerozoic glaciations—or more precisely, there were three intervals of time when the world possessed large amounts of ice—though in each of these, the ice waxed and waned in a rather complex fashion, and none came close to a Snowball-like state. Thus, these intervals often now tend to be called ‘icehouse states’ rather than glaciations per se. Between these, there were rather longer intervals—greenhouse states—in which the world was considerably warmer; though again, this warmth was variable, and at times modest amounts of polar ice could form. Of the Earth’s Phanerozoic icehouse states, two are in the Palaeozoic Era: one, now termed the ‘Early Palaeozoic Icehouse’ centred on the boundary between the Ordovician and Silurian periods, peaking some 440 million years ago; and a later one centred on the Carboniferous and early Permian periods, 325 to 280 million years ago.
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Krause, Peter. "The Irish National Movement." In Rebel Power. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501708558.003.0006.

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This chapter analyzes the Irish national movement. It discusses the most striking feature: the clockwork-like actions of republican groups that, while challengers, escalated violence, shunned elections, and denounced negotiated compromise; but after they became the leader or hegemon of the movement (or movement wing), shunned violence, participated in elections, and negotiated compromises. Despite their intense criticism of each other, this is the story of Cumann na nGaedheal (later Fine Gael), Fianna Fáil, the , Official Irish Republican Army/Official Sinn Féin, and the Provisional IRA/Sinn Féin over the course of the twentieth century. In every case in which abstentionism (the refusal to take seats in the government) was ended, what changed was not what the group ideologically said had to change but, rather, the movement structure and that the group would be guaranteed a leading role in the new order.
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Morimoto, Daichi, Sigitas Šulčius, Kento Tominaga, and Takashi Yoshida. "Predetermined clockwork microbial worlds: Current understanding of aquatic microbial diel response from model systems to complex environments." In Advances in Applied Microbiology, 163–91. Elsevier, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.aambs.2020.06.001.

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Verschuur, Gerrit L. "Death Star or Coherent Catastrophism?" In Impact! Oxford University Press, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195101058.003.0014.

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Our instinct for survival drives us to learn as much as possible about what goes on around us. The better we understand nature, the better we will be able to predict its vagaries so as to avoid life-threatening situations. Unfortunately, nature is seldom so kind as to arrange for disasters to occur like clockwork, yet that does not dampen our enthusiasm when even a hint of periodicity in a complex phenomenon is spotted. This helps account for the furor that was created when a few paleontologists claimed that mass extinctions of species seemed to recur in a regular manner. A cycle, a periodicity, had been found! That implied that perhaps they might be able to predict nature’s next move. This is how I interpret the extraordinary public interest that was generated by the claims made around 1984 that the mass extinction phenomenon showed a roughly 30-million-year period (others said it was 26 million years). Almost immediately, several books appeared on the subject as well as many, many articles in the popular press and in science magazines. This activity marked the short life of the Death Star fiasco. Given our instinctual urge to look for order in the chaos of existence, the identification of a periodicity in mass-extinction events was a great discovery, if real. What was not highlighted by those who climbed aboard the bandwagon, however, was that the last peak in the pattern occurred about 13 million years ago. If impact-related mass extinction events were produced every 30 million years, there obviously was no cause for concern that we would be hit by a 10-kilometer object in the next 17 million years. Phew! I think that the suggestion that mass extinctions occurred on a regular cycle caused as much interest as it did because we all want to believe that there is no immediate danger to us. The Death Star fiasco began when David Raup and John Sepkowski of the University of Chicago published a report claiming that mass extinction events recurred about every 26 million years. They were followed by Michael Rampino and Richard Stothers of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York who claimed that the period was more like 30 million years, at least during the last 250 million years.
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