Seán McMahon

Self-organized pattern formation in geological soft matter

Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Charles S. Cockell, Lucas Goehring, Silvia Holler et autres

Geological materials are often seen as the antithesis of soft; rocks are hard. However, during the formation of minerals and rocks, all the systems we shall discuss, indeed geological materials in general, pass through a stage where they are soft. This occurs …

Why do we need (another) universal tracers portal in Astrobiology?

Lena Noack, I. L. ten Kate, Emmanuelle Javaux, Seán McMahon et autres

Abstract Astrobiology is a scientific field that is very interdisciplinary and developing very fast, with many new discoveries generating a high level of attention in both the scientific community and the public. A central goal of astrobiology is to discover life beyond …

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The need for large sample numbers to demonstrate that Martian environments are lifeless

Vanda Inácio, Miguel de Carvalho, Olivia Jackson, Seán McMahon et autres

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Non-Invasive Systemic Blood Pressure Measurement Wait Period Error Mitigation

Seán McMahon, Paul L. Morrow

Abstract World Health Organisation blood pressure measurement guidelines stipulate that a patient should be seated, back straight and legs uncrossed, for five minutes prior to blood pressure measurement. A study shows that in the majority of cases, the wait period is disregarded …

A laboratory for multi-century science

Charles S. Cockell, Rosa Santomartino, Seán McMahon, Reekie Philippe et autres

Charles Cockell and colleagues consider how to establish and maintain a very, very long experiment.

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The War of Independence

Seán McMahon

B ell, D aniel

Seán McMahon

Daniel Bell was an American journalist and sociologist. He argued that the age of ideology had ended in The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties and forecast a postindustrial society characterized by, inter alia, the rise …

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Crisis and Class War in Egypt

Seán McMahon

In 2011, capital’s crisis erupted in Egyptian society. This eruption, and subsequent politics, have been misrepresented as revolutionary, as the working class was – and is increasingly so – devalued and disempowered.

Crisis and Class War in Egypt: Social Reproduction, Factional Realignments and the Global Political Economy

Seán McMahon

Temporality, Peace Initiatives and Palestinian-Israeli Politics

Seán McMahon

In this paper I use a Foucault-inspired framework to study the function and performance of temporality in the discourse of Palestinian-Israeli politics. I argue that Palestinians are constituted as being without time. They are not with time; not with a past, or …

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Hegemony in the Local Order and Accumulation in the Global: Canada and Libya

Seán McMahon

My paper analyzes Canadian involvement in the war on Libya in 2011. My point of departure is the question: why was Canada involved in the bombing of Libya? I quickly recognize that it is facile to argue that Canada bombed Libya simply …

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign: contradictions and challenges

Seán McMahon

This article analyses the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. First, it adumbrates the emergence and emphases of the BDS campaign. Then, it explains the BDS tactics, particularly the boycott measure. Next, it highlights some of the contradictions surrounding the campaign. …