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Small talk: Exchanging messages at the nanoscale with molecular communication

The ability to sense and manipulate the body at the level of individual cells has long been a vision for the future of medicine, as well as a staple of science fiction. When it is finally realized, this...

Tokuko Haraguchi, Andrew Eckford, Tadashi Nakano | 18 Nov 2024

When Leaders Fail on Peace: The Roots of Political Sabotage and How We Can Stop It

Politicians frequently derail peace efforts by prioritizing short-term political gains over long-term stability. Take the example of Nicaragua, where during the Cold War the United States propped up the...

Dominic Rohner | 15 Nov 2024

Understanding the Appeal and Limits of Misinformation in War

Palestinians are faking their injuries. The October 7th attack was an “inside job.” Ukraine is full of secret Western chemical weapons labs. Misinformation narratives in situations of war and conflict...

Daniel Silverman | 14 Nov 2024

To prescribe or not to prescribe – that is the question?

It’s 4pm on a Friday. The phones are ringing. ‘Somebody must do something!’ ‘The situation is out of control’. ‘Someone will get hurt’! ‘If something doesn’t happen soon, we will have...

David M. L. Branford, Satheesh K. Gangadharan, Mary Barrett, Regi T. Alexander | 14 Nov 2024

Coping with Uncertainty in Public Policy

A foundational objective of the Constitution of the United States is to “promote the general Welfare.” However, the Constitution does not define “general Welfare.” The Constitutional premise that...

Charles F. Manski | 14 Nov 2024

From Imposter to Impact: My Journey with Native-Speakerism and Trans-Speakerism in ELT

Have you ever felt like an imposter in your own profession? As a non-native English-speaking teacher and researcher, I’ve spent years grappling with this feeling. It wasn’t until very recently that...

Takaaki Hiratsuka | 13 Nov 2024

Harm and Power in the Information Economy

The Information Economy At Facebook’s initial public offering in 2012, Mark Zuckerberg shared a motto: “Move fast and break things.” Later abandoned by Facebook, the catchphrase prevails as a...

Ignacio Cofone | 12 Nov 2024

Orbital motions as tools to test post-Newtonian and alternative models of gravity

The General Theory of Relativity (GTR), enunciated just over a hundred years ago by Albert Einstein, remains to this day the best available description of gravitation, the feeblest out of the four fundamental...

Lorenzo Iorio | 8 Nov 2024

Contesting the World: Norm Research in Theory and Practice

What are norms, and why do they matter for international relations? How do they help to guide and constitute state behaviour at the international level, as well as behaviour by other actors like international...

Phil Orchard, Antje Wiener | 31 Oct 2024

WEIMAR: LESSONS ABOUT LESSONS

The German Weimar Republic lasted a mere fifteen years, from the end of the First World War to Hitler’s dictatorship in 1933. It nevertheless became the paradigmatic historical event shaping political...

Richard Ned Lebow, Ludvig Norman | 30 Oct 2024

Good Governing

The constitutions of the fifty states in the United States create by their authority as fundamental law the structure of government and the means and mechanisms of governance for state, local, and special...

Daniel B. Rodriguez | 30 Oct 2024

The Art of Working with the Mathieu group M24

1  Background In 1873 the French mathematician Emil Mathieu published a paper in which he ’glued’ together copies of the projective special linear group L2(23) acting on the 24-point projective...

Robert T. Curtis | 29 Oct 2024