The essay in this issue reflects the Ebola virus disease (EVD) by world-renowned immunologist Professor Ivo Hána. EVD first appeared in 1976 in simultaneously in Nzara, Sudan and in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It was detected in a village in the DRC near the Ebola River, from which the disease takes its name. and Ivo Hána.
Článek se zabývá problematickou politické korektnosti ve vztahu k feministické fi losofi i vědy. Zaměřuje pozornost na užší pojem politické korektnosti – hodnotově motivovanou nekorektní práci s fakty. Konstatuje, že navzdory explicitnímu soustředění feministických autorek a autorů na význam hodnot v projektu vědy nelze chápat feministickou fi losofi i vědy jako politicky korektní nebo jako vybízení k politicky korektní vědě. Naopak se politicky korektní argumentace v tomto užším smyslu mohou dopou- štět i práce vystupující proti feministické či politicky korektní agendě ve vědě., The paper deals with the question of political correctness with respect to feminist philosophy of science. It focuses on a narrower notion of political correctness – treating facts incorrectly due to value motives. It finds that despite the feminist authors’ explicit focus on the importance of values in the scientifi centerprise, feminist philosophy of science cannot be understood as politically correct or as promoting politically correct science. On the other hand, politically correct arguments (in this narrower sense) can be used also by works speaking against the feminist or politically correct agenda in science., and Ondřej Beran.
In the presence of Deputy Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Stanislav Štech, Rector of Charles University Tomáš Zima, Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Vladimír Mareček, and other important guests, the implementation phase of the BIOCEV project - the Biotechnology and Biomedicine Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Charles University in Vestec was concluded on December 18, 2015. Full operation is beginning in January 2016. BIOCEV currently implements five research programmes and consists of six sets of research infrastructure and service laboratories. By 2020, as many as 450 researchers, including 200 post-graduate students, are supposed to work at the BIOCEV Centre. The Centre´s objective is to leam details about organisms at the molecular level that can be used in applied research and in the development of new therapeutic procedures. and Marina Hužvárová.
Since the beginning of human civilization new and new things have been developed to make a life easier for human beings, to facilitate it and to improve the life standards. When Enrico Fermi came up with the construction of his first uranium nuclear reactor in 1942, he thought that his idea was absolutely new and unique. however, he did not know that nature had been able to manage such processes already a few millions years ago. Discovery of the natural nuclear reactors in 1970's has launched many scientific and research projects. Their results may help to shed light upon some of the main issues related to nuclear power plants and deep underground repositories of the radioactive waste., Od počátků civilizace se lidé snaží vymýšlet nové a nové věci, které lidstvu ulehčí či vylepší jejich život. A tak si Enrico Fermi mslel, že přišel s něčím zcela novým a unikátním, když v roce 1942 sestavil první uranový jaderný reaktor. Avšak ani on v té chvíli netušil, že příroda ho předběhla o několik milionů let. Přírodní jaderné reaktory byly objeveny až za 30 let v africkém Gabonu a jejich objev nastartoval řadu vědeckých a výzkumných projektů, které by mohly pomoci vysvětlit problémy týkající se nejen jaderných elektráren a hlubinných úložišť vyhořelého jaderného paliva., Jan Krmela, Irena Špendlíková., and Obsahuje bibliografii