mimetics

This semester saw students who wrote on everything from how we speak about feces, to "villainous" pirates, to folklore heroes and nationalism, to language and communication, to Santa Claus and panopticism, to how mimetics influences stable or instable cultural forms, to the psychology of nationhood, to Jurassic park, to linguistic identity, to Mexican revolutionary imagery.

Teaching Writing: Reflections, and Thanks, Year Two Mary Kate Hurley 2008

This semester saw students who wrote on everything from how we speak about feces, to "villainous" pirates, to folklore heroes and nationalism, to language and communication, to Santa Claus and panopticism, to how mimetics influences stable or instable cultural forms, to the psychology of nationhood, to Jurassic park, to linguistic identity, to Mexican revolutionary imagery.

Archive 2008-05-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

Sirtris was formed on the premise that resveratrol could activate SIRT1, and the company's researchers set out to discover similar compounds (called sirtuin mimetics) that would be more potent activators of this possibly life-extending gene.

Gerontology Comes of Age 2010

He believes that drugs called CR mimetics -- which mimic the benefits seen in lab rodents that were fed a reduced-calorie diet -- in the near future will be capable of postponing the onset of major diseases for five to 10 years.

SCIENCE SCAN 2010

Either way, it seems counter-intuitive: words, especially poetic ones, affront the new Romantics with unwanted trading in "poetic diction" (Wordsworth and Coleridge, anyway, though Keats rather liked camping it up), or a too parodyable mimetics ( "Oh woe is me! oh misery!").

Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound 2008

He lived in the world, and more peripatetically and traumatically than many of us, yet in his art declined to submit to the world; rather, he asked that the world submit to the curious, spotty evidence of its own mimetics, its streaks of insane tenderness, its infinitely ingenious markings.

More on Updike: His Own Elegies Omnivoracious 2009

Personally I feel the art world has completely stagnated and is in its own Post Modern spiral of mimetics.

Paul Klein: Responses to Schism Article 2009

He lived in the world, and more peripatetically and traumatically than many of us, yet in his art declined to submit to the world; rather, he asked that the world submit to the curious, spotty evidence of its own mimetics, its streaks of insane tenderness, its infinitely ingenious markings.

Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009

Dembski called bio-mimetics a subdiscipline of intelligent design.

Demarcation, Credentials, and Science Education 2005

It's possible, but Dr. L's got a plan and it involves 'calorie restriction mimetics.'

Speedlinking 1/31/07 William Harryman 2007