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What have Mathematics and Statistics ever done for you?
By Graham Robertson,Senior Marketing Executive, Higher Education How much do you know about the influence of mathematics and statistics? April is Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, so we thought we would share a quick snapshot… You probabl…
The Adriatic, sea of stories
My mother’s family comes from Dugi Otok, the outermost island in the Zadar archipelago, off the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. I was often told as a child that from the island’s western cliffs you could see Italy across the Adriatic on a clear da…
India and the World
How to view the history of India in a global perspective ? One answer is to frame it within a project of ‘provincialisation’ of Europe as advocated by Dipesh Chakrabarty. But there is an alternative possibility with Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s…
Power Shift: The Global Political Economy of Energy Transitions
How to transition to a zero carbon economy in a timely and fair fashion is one of the greatest challenges the world faces. Bill Gates spelt out his vision of how to do it in his recent book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. The answer for him is technologi…
Bounded gaps between primes: the epic breakthroughs of the early 21st century
Why did I write this book? Certainly there are quite a few mathematicians who could write a better book on bounded gaps. I thought that the series of wonderful breakthroughs deserved to be celebrated with several accounts of the mathematical content of th…
Scholarship: A ‘Hidden’ Influence on International Judges
International judges regularly decide important cases, on matters ranging from entrenched border disputes, costly trade wars, the most fundamental of our human rights and violent armed conflicts. Their decisions matter, and especially those of the most au…
100 Years of Aircraft Aerodynamic Design: from guesswork to optimal mathematical precision
The figure above presents a thumbnail history of the airplane’s aerodynamic development over the twentieth century, including some of the significant contributors who helped to bring it about. This historical overview parallels the organization of o…
Opinion: Moving beyond prescriptive physics laboratory instruction
Andri M. Gretarsson author of "A First Course in Laboratory Optics" considers that in order to bridge the gap between demonstrating theory and testing theory, a change of emphasis in undergraduate laboratories is required.
Practical Psychopharmacology
“Nobody reads books anymore” is the secondhand testimony I hear from colleagues about how current medical students and residents prefer to learn. “They want soundbytes.” Short, succinct morsels of information they can c…
Good Europeans?
What are the most distinctive achievements of European civilization? According to the Bulgarian-born thinker Tzvetan Todorov, they are rationality, justice, democracy, individual freedom, secularism, and tolerance. To this list, one might add science, the…
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Cambridge sponsors Lund University librarian to attend UKSG conference
Annika Nilsson, University of Lund Librarian This past year in Academic publishing has seen a rising need for a change in attitude to accessibility, both from a student’s perspective but also from that of their institutions.…
CEH Prize winning article ‘From National Catholicism to Romantic Love. The Politics of Love and Divorce in Franco’s Spain’
The editorial team of Contemporary European History is delighted to announce the 2020 CEH Prize winner, Mónica García-Fernández (University of the Basque Country, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea), for her forthcoming article ‘From…
NASA Study: Excess of Mass Gains of the Antarctic Ice Sheet over Mass Losses during 1992 to 2008 Eliminated by Increasing Dynamic Losses to 2016
A new NASA study [Antarctic Mass Balance] confirms that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation [Siegert, 2003] that began 10,000 years ago in East Antarctica (EA) [Fig.…
Pots and cultural diversity in the Roman north – the case of Severan York
Questions on the extent of multiculturalism in Britain’s (Roman) past have never been more relevant. Thanks to the evidence of inscriptions and the recent scientific analysis of human skeletal remains we know that Romano-British cities were home to …
Taxonomic resolution affects host−parasite association model performance
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is “Taxonomic resolution affects host−parasite association model performance“ The ability to predict the occurrence and strength of species interactions is a fundamental go…
IPA-Leads Process to Advance Revised Criteria for Psychosis in Neurocognitive Disorders
Once again, IPA has taken the lead to advance the mental health care of older persons using its inclusive process to address the needs of patients and providers around the globe.…
Businesses, Remedy and Vaccine Trials: Reflections on the Business and Human Rights issues in the Irish Mother and Baby Homes Report
In this blog post we address a business and human rights issue that emerged from the recent report of Ireland’s Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: that of corporate complicity in unlicensed clinical trials carried out upon incar…
A new moment for climate governance: Can President Biden save the world from climate change?
Within hours of assuming office, President Joe Biden began taking steps to reverse his predecessor’s devastating policies on climate change. He returned the United States to the Paris Agreement, declared that his administration would cooperate with …
Rhetoric, politics, and decorum in the Renaissance
Some thought that civil speech was a denial of civic ideals. Others, such as Erasmus and Vives, believed that civic life in the service of the community could only be realized through civil speech.
Government pledge fulfillment on immigration (“How Party Platforms on Immigration Become Policy”)
Do governing parties follow through on their campaign promises? Representative democracy requires that there are policy linkages between citizens and policies ultimately enacted by their governments.…
Fake news and state manipulation, First World War style?
Rather than sinister and corrupt state manipulation, this close look at the instructions, never previously undertaken, suggests a relatively flexible and responsive attempt to balance safety and security with press freedom.
On Balance: Costs and Benefits of School Shutdowns and Forming Covid-19 Policy under Uncertainty
Originally posted on the Society for Cost Benefit-Analysis On Balance blog In Volume 11 of The Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, Thunström, Newbold, Finnoff, Ashworth, and Shogren presented their findings on the national benefits and costs of phys…