His
magnum opus,
A Theory of Justice (1971), is now regarded as "one of the primary texts in political philosophy."
[1] His work in political philosophy, dubbed Rawlsianism,
[2] takes as its starting point the argument that "most reasonable principles of justice are those everyone would accept and agree to from a fair position."
[1] Rawls employs a number of
thought experiments-including the famous
veil of ignorance-to determine what constitutes a fair agreement in which "everyone is impartially situated as equals," in order to determine principles of social justice.
[1] He is one of the major thinkers in the tradition of
liberal political philosophy.
Salmonella typhimurium is a pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria predominately found in the intestinal lumen. Its toxicity is due to an outer membrane consisting largely of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) which protect the bacteria from the environment. The LPS is made up of an O-antigen, a polysaccharide core, and lipid A, which connects it to the outer membrane. Lipid A is made up of two phosphorylated glucosamines which are attached to fatty acids. These phosphate groups determine bacterial toxicity. Animals carry an enzyme that specifically removes these phosphate groups in an attempt to protect themselves from these pathogens[4]. The O-antigen, being on the outermost part of the LPS complex is responsible for the host immune response.
S. typhimurium has the ability to undergo acetylation of this O-antigen, which changes its conformation, and makes it difficult for antibodies to recognize [5].
Genome structure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osho_(Bhagwan_Shree_Rajneesh)
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Osho, born
Chandra Mohan Jain (
Hindi:
चन्द्र मोहन जैन) (11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as
Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as
Osho from 1989, was an Indian
mystic,
guru, and spiritual teacher who garnered an
international following.
A professor of
philosophy, he travelled throughout India in the 1960s as a public speaker. His outspoken criticism of
socialism,
Mahatma Gandhi and institutionalised
religion made him controversial. He also advocated a more open attitude towards
sexuality, a stance that earned him the sobriquet "sex guru" in the Indian and later international press.
[3] In 1970, he settled for a while in
Bombay. He began initiating disciples (known as
neo-sannyasins) and took on the role of a spiritual teacher. In his discourses, he reinterpreted writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. Moving to
Pune in 1974, he established an
ashram that attracted increasing numbers of Westerners. The ashram offered therapies derived from the
Human Potential Movement to its Western audience and made news in India and abroad, chiefly because of its permissive climate and Osho's provocative lectures. By the end of the 1970s, there were mounting tensions with the Indian government and the surrounding society.
In 1981, Osho relocated to the United States and his followers established an
intentional community, later known as
Rajneeshpuram, in the state of
Oregon. Within a year the leadership of the commune became embroiled in a conflict with local residents, primarily over land use, which was marked by hostility on both sides.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3
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Simulacron-3 (1964) (also published as
Counterfeit World), by
Daniel F. Galouye, is an American
science fiction novel featuring an early literary description of
virtual reality.
[edit] Plot summary
Simulacron 3 is the story of a
virtual city (total environment simulator) for
marketing research, developed by a scientist to reduce the need for
opinion polls. The computer-generated city
simulation is so well-programmed, that, although the inhabitants have their own
consciousness, they are unaware,
except for one, that they are only electronic impulses in a computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_F._Galouye
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Daniel Francis Galouye (11 February 1920 – 7 September 1976) was an
American science fiction writer. During the 1950s and 1960s, he contributed novelettes and short stories to various
digest size science fiction magazines, sometimes writing under the pseudonym
Louis G. Daniels.
Born in
New Orleans, Galouye (pronounced Gah-lou-ey)
[citation needed] graduated from Louisiana State University (B.A.) and then worked as a reporter for several newspapers. During World War II, he served in the US Navy as an instructor and test pilot, receiving injuries that led to later health problems. On December 26, 1945, he married Carmel Barbara Jordan. From the 1940s until his retirement in 1967, he was on the staff of
The States Item. He lived in New Orleans but also had a summer home across Lake Ponchartrain at St. Tammany Parish in
Covington, Louisiana.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/tavistochumanrelations.htm
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When it was decided that a super-body would control European affairs, the RIIA founded the Tavistock Institute, which in turn created NATO. For Five years NATO was financed by the German Marshall Fund. Dr. King was assigned by the Club of Rome to destroy America's education by taking control of the National Teachers Association and working in close conjunction with certain law makers and judges. Scientists engaged in the process of conditioning are called "social engineers" or "new-science social scientists" and they play an integral part in what we see, hear and read. The "old school" social engineers were Kurt K. Lewin, Professor Hadley Cantril, Margaret Meade, Professor Derwin Cartwright and Professor Lipssitt who, together with John Rawlings Reese, made up the backbone of new-science scientists at Tavistock Institute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_King_(scientist)
Excerpt:
Alexander King CMG,
CBE (26 January 1909 - 28 February 2007) was a scientist and pioneer of the sustainable development movement who co-founded the
Club of Rome in 1968 with the Italian industrialist
Aurelio Peccei.
At the time of the Club of Rome's founding, King was a "top international scientific civil servant, Scots by birth, living in Paris."
[edit] Education and early work
King attended
Highgate School, studied chemistry at London's
Royal College of Science and the University of Munich, then taught and carried out some important research at
Imperial College, London.
[1]
In 1940,
Henry Tizard invited King to join the
Ministry of Production as Deputy Scientific Adviser. While there he would learn from an intercepted letter the properties of the insecticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, coining the acronym
DDT. He travelled to the U.S. in 1943, becoming Head of the UK Scientific Mission and Scientific Attaché at the British Embassy in Washington.
[1]
Following the war he became Secretary of the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy and personal adviser to the
Lord President of the Council,
Herbert Morrison. He later became Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
[1]
In 1957 he joined the European Productivity Agency in Paris, where he remained until 1974.
[1] 
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