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  • 25 May 2016
    Intelligence
    Richard Haier, James R. Flynn, Robert J. Sternberg

    Neuroscience & Intelligence

    Three Cambridge University Press authors and leading experts on Intelligence take on our virtual roundtable on 'Human Intelligence'. Week two of the six part series asks the question 'What role does neuroscience play in understanding intelligence and our capacity to learn?'

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  • 24 May 2016
    Ice Cubes
    David Goodstein

    The Mystery of Thermal Physics

    David Goodstein, author of Thermal Physics, Energy and Entropy (2015) discusses his interest in the subject and the reasons behind writing this important text

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  • 20 May 2016
    Helen Wilcox

    A poem a day by George Herbert: ‘Love (III)’

    To celebrate the publication of George Herbert: 100 Poems, we ask volume editor Helen Wilcox to pick her favourite George Herbert poems and explain why she chose them.

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  • 20 May 2016
    John MacAuslan

    The Lonely Pianist

    In the second in a four week series, author John MacAuslan, author of Schumann’s Music and E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Fiction, enjoys the work of Adolf von Menzel. Last week, he examined how Schumann’s Kreisleriana works.  In 1838,Schumann  wrote to a friend of his ‘fairly lonely path’, on which ‘a real companion in art is a […]

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  • 19 May 2016
    R. Michael Alvarez

    Computational Social Science: Advances and Innovation in Research Methods

    “Moore’s Law” was a prediction made by Gordon Moore in 1965, when he opined that computing power would grow at an ever-increasing rate.  Something like “Moore’s Law” is taking place in computational social science today, with the rapid development and availability of new methods, new tools, new software, and new data for the study of […]

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  • 19 May 2016
    Helen Wilcox

    A poem a day by George Herbert: ‘The Flower’

    The Flower This joyful poem is a celebration of God’s ‘returns’ – or rather, the speaker’s rediscovery of God’s presence after a period of spiritual barrenness. The tone is one of amazement at how simple and natural this recovery is: ‘Grief melts away / Like snow in May, / As if there were no such […]

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  • 18 May 2016
    Intelligence
    Richard Haier, James R. Flynn, Robert J. Sternberg

    Can we define Intelligence?

    Three Cambridge University Press authors and leading experts on Intelligence take on our virtual roundtable on 'Human Intelligence'. Week one of the six part series asks the question 'Can we define Intelligence?

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  • 18 May 2016
    Helen Wilcox

    George Herbert – A poem a day: ‘The Collar’

    To celebrate the publication of George Herbert: 100 Poems, we ask volume editor Helen Wilcox to pick her favourite George Herbert poems and explain why she chose them.

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