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The Together Project is a series of photo essays inspiring us to see humankind in a different light by honoring our cultural differences as well as the understanding that we’re all cut from the same cloth; we’re members of humankind. The Together Project is here to inspire you to learn about others and to ignite a sense of curiosity and compassion towards those who live in different cultures from our own. In this photo essay, Johanna explains her experience in the Huay Pu Keng village in northern Thailand and talks about the significance of ethical tourism.

As we move into the third decade of the 21st century, surveillance capitalism is the dominant economic institution of our time. Dr. Shoshana Zuboff, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism -says “Facebook is not just any corporation. It reached trillion-dollar status in a single decade by applying the logic of what I call surveillance capitalism — an economic system built on the secret extraction and manipulation of human data — to its vision of connecting the entire world. No secret extraction means no illegitimate concentrations of knowledge about people. No concentrations of knowledge means no targeting algorithms. No targeting means that corporations can no longer control and curate information flows and social speech or shape human behavior to favor their interests. Regulating extraction would eliminate the surveillance dividend and with it the financial incentives for surveillance.

Evelyn Waugh, the finest English prose stylist of his time, was not an easy character who drank and used tablets at will, regardless of the consequences. The events that followed were described in his short novella The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, his most autobiographical work. The Pinfold character develops a full-blown psychosis with paranoid delusions, hallucinations and thought insertion.

Dear josha-journal readers, While we were still thinking mainly about Corona when we wrote the last editorial and wished our readers a happy new year 2022, we are thrown back on the hard ground of facts only two months later. There is a war going on in Europe, an unimaginable event for all of us! Especially the Josha team, which since its foundation has always been committed to international friendship and cooperation across all territorial borders, is horrified. Our contributor Silke therefore dedicates an article to the attacked country of Ukraine with its anthem and the context of its creation. We will not be stopped in our quest to make science and art accessible to all and wish all readers a successful read despite the dramatic events.

In order to express our sympathy with the Ukrainian people we refrain from publishing an article today and devote our platform to the Ukraine. „United We Stand with the People of the Ukraine" Please find enclosed the music of the national anthem of the Ukraine!

The paper seeks out to examine the status, roles, and functions of ‘Ulamā in Borno from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century. The high ‘Ulamā in Borno were those who had an official position either in the learned orthodox hierarchy or in the Sufi mystical one. Being an ‘Ulamā is a prime status honor in the Borno. They also have considerable power and a great influence on most Muslims in the Borno society. Thus, they have played a significant role in the propagation, dissemination, and development of Islamic religious knowledge, both Qur’anic education, and Islamic sciences in West Africa in particular and Africa in general. They also serve as intelligentsia, preachers, Imams, teachers, and supernatural endeavors of the state.

Sigmund Freud described very few cases, but more details have come out over the years despite the efforts of the Freud estate to embargo embarrassing records. Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, a leading historian of psychoanalysis, has described thirty-eight patients treated by Freud. He refrains from taking into account Freud’s interpretations, instead providing an account of how Freud interacted with his patients, contrasting with the canonical version. The conclusion he draws is that Freud’s cures were largely ineffectual, when they were not downright destructive. Relevant aspects of the background and circumstances of the cases is provided. Many patients were of aristocratic descent, some enormously wealthy, a significant number were Jewish, while Americans were given priority because of the high value of the US dollar. It also provides an insight into the fading world of fin de siècle Vienna and how incestuous was the Jewish circle of Freud, his family and patients.

This is a speech addressed to the public of the BioThera Roland Mertelsmann Foundation’s meeting on November 5th 2021, Freiburg, with the motto Artificial Intelligence and Translational Oncology: Cancer Treatment 5.0? where I explain and defend the importance of a Philosophy Research Program on artificial intelligence and machine learning in oncology. The speech has been slightly edited for its publication from the oral version. Ignacio Mastroleo National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Programa de Bioetica, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencieas Sociales (FLACSO), Buenos Aires, Argentina. ignaciomastro@gmail.com

Experimental data is what we do with it. It is the analysis that makes them relevant (or not). We have to be especially careful to look at it as fairly as possible. Otherwise, we will see whatever each of us wants to see, always. In February 2013, Junhee Seok showed that mouse models poorly mimic human diseases. In June 2014, Keizo Takao and Tsuyoshi Miyakawa used the same data to conclude the opposite. This is the story of how they shocked the scientific community.

This contribution deals with the question of foreign influences on the Fon fairy tales from Benin (West Africa). It has endeavoured to answer the question whether the similarities found in some Fon fairy tales that have been handed down until now and in some Grimm’s fairy tales that have been written down since the 19th century have an effect on the authenticity of the former. It shows that at the centre of the similarities between fairy tales from different cultures is the human being himself through his mental disposition as a producer of the same or similar fairy tales.