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Plan? What plan?
Sometimes plans work best when they don’t really bear the hallmarks of a plan. Less design and more muddling through can achieve unforeseen good. This might be said for a well-known, but less well-understood, postwar international aid program for As…
Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change
Exiting from international organizations (IOs) seems to be the strategy du jour in international relations. This is underscored by recent high-profile events: the implementation of Brexit in 2020, Russia’s IO exits after it invaded Ukraine in 2022, …
How Literary Genius Changed the Meaning of Nature and Created an Environmental Movement
Why do people so often approach nature with the same kinds of rapt aesthetic and spiritual attention that they bring to works of art? Why do they seek in nature both their most unique (or “true”) personal self and at the same time a defi…
What Economists Can (and Should) Learn from Disability Justice Activists
In 2016, the Harriet Tubman Collective—a group of Black disabled activists and community organizers—released a statement titled “Disability Solidarity: Completing the Vision for Black Lives.” The statement was a clear and uncomprom…
The Guitar in Victorian England
During the nineteenth century Western art music advanced towards a peak of sonorous magnificence, perhaps reached in 1848 at Paris when Hector Berlioz conducted an ensemble of 1,022 performers. The guitar, however, continued to sound at the level of a sma…
Naples: Capital of Culture and Dance
The mythical siren song of Naples, which drew travelers to the shores, manifested itself centuries later in the reality of the Grand Tour. Generations came, lured by the urban expanse and broad culture of the city as well as the natural beauty of the surr…
Platforms for Knowledge: Architectural Images and the Rise of Empirical Science
What modes of scientific knowledge can images of architecture embody? An etching that Strasbourg artist Wendel Dietterlin the Elder released in the second, 1594 instalment of his serially published Architectura treatise [Fig. 1] suggests some answers to t…
A radically different method for solving problems
The animation running below shows a new kind of algorithm solving a nonogram puzzle. The task is to arrange purple squares in a grid according to some constraints listed on the sides. For example, the “3 5 5” next to the top row mean…
Singing in the Reign: Lyric Poetry and Greek Culture under Rome
When we think about lyric poetry and song traditions in the Roman Empire, the association is hardly new. Horace’s refined lyric experiments are well known, and Nero’s dramatic (and infamous) performance during the Great Fire of Rome in 64 CE&m…
Many Homers, One Epic Tradition: Rethinking the Origins of the Iliad and the Odyssey
For over two millennia, readers of the Iliad and the Odyssey have imagined a single, blind poet called Homer singing the deeds of the great heroes of the Trojan War. Captivating as this image may be, it owes more to romantic imagination than to historical…
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A human factors accident analysis framework for UAV loss of control in flight
The number of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or ‘drones’ in UK skies has increased significantly over the last decade and this trend is set to continue.
Breathing Easier: Our Quest to Transform COPD Management in Primary Care
Our latest article in Primary Health Care Research and Development details the route to successful implementation of a novel programme called CONQUEST across three different primary care networks in the US. Our mission? To improve the quality of care for …
The Forgotten First Woman Candidate for U.S. President
Long before Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016, or Kamala Harris became the first woman vice president and launched her own presidential bid in 2024, another woman set her sights on the White House, at a time when women couldn’t even vote.…
Pensar los 30.000 Que sabíamos sobre los desaparecidos durante la dictadura y lo que ignoramos todavía
The 1970s remain a minefield in Argentina. Nothing underscores this more than the discussion about who is responsible for the cycle of political violence and the number of missing persons, a topic that recurs time and again, dividing those who openly hold…
Muses at Three: Reflections by Dami Ajayi
It has been three years since Muses, the art blog of BJPsych International, was launched. Although time travels fast, reflection is an active process of slowing time down to take stock of what time has bequeathed us.
Akritas Cape: a recently discovered raptor migration hotspot in the Balkans
Several new hotspots have been identified in the past three decades, particularly in Italy, but none have approached the numbers observed at those three traditional sites. Up to now, the flyway connecting Greece with North Africa during post-breeding migr…
Reflections on constitutional transformations and more in the GLJ
The newest issue of the German Law Journal brings together critical reflections on constitutional transformations, contestations of citizenship, and evolving roles of public institutions in times of crisis.…
Magnetic fields and imaging technologies
Magnetic fields are at the core of many imaging technologies. A widely known modality is MRI, a standard procedure in medical imaging, which is however limited by a long scanning time and the ability to only image anatomical regions containing sufficient …
Interview with the editor of Comparative Studies in Society and History
Please introduce yourself. I’m Jatin Dua, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and the incoming editor of Comparative Studies in Society and History.…
Cover Artwork: Sally Osborn
Sally Osborn is a ceramic artist who lives and works in Berlin and Glasgow. Her art is compelling in its abstract structure and which requires great skill to create. The roughness of the unglazed ceramic adds beauty to its sensuous shape.
