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Cambridge author Philip Yanos discusses World Mental Health Day and why raising awareness and encouraging people with mental health issues to seek help ultimately has little impact on stigma.
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Germany votes this weekend in the last in a series of elections in key Western countries. The polls are predicting a win for Angela Merkel, who is trying to secure a historic fourth term as chancellor. In an exclusive extract from her new book, Becoming Madam Chancellor: Angela Merkel and the Berlin Republic, Joyce Marie Mushaben explains why she wrote the book and she looks back at the personal and political factors that have contributed to Chancellor Merkel's hard-earned status as ‘the world's most powerful woman.’
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Burns’ new documentary series has much merit. Most commendable from my perspective as a historian of the Vietnamese communist experience is the inclusion of references to Le Duan and allusions to his role in precipitating the onset of war with the United States in 1965. Le Duan is a little-known figure in the United States. When […]
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Horatiu Nastase, author of String Theory Methods for Condensed Matter Physics, describes the differences between reductionist and emergent approaches to modern physics and presents the duality approach to help solve uncalculable problems in strong nuclear forces, fluids and condensed matter. Is this approach the bridge between fundamental and phenomenological physics?
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Notes on Dimensional Analysis Dimensional analysis has the dubious reputation of being both utterly trivial and, at the same time, ineffective. Although both claims are understandable neither is well founded. One can, indeed, learn the basic technique of dimensional analysis, what A Student’s Guide to Dimensional Analysis calls the “Rayleigh algorithm,” in ten minutes. But […]
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Internet-enabled devices are so common, and so vulnerable, that hackers recently broke into a casino through its fish tank. The tank had internet-connected sensors measuring its temperature and cleanliness. The hackers got into the fish tank’s sensors and then to the computer used to control them, and from there to other parts of the casino’s network. […]
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The Great American Eclipse of August 21, 2017 NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) both place great emphasis on public engagement, giving back to the taxpayers who support space exploration. When NASA sent out a bulletin asking astronomers to speak to groups during the Great American Eclipse of August 21, 2017, I signed up. […]
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What do you do when faced with analyzing student ratings from 1 to 5 for 3 instructors in 3 classes? Aside from questioning the validity of students assessing instructor capability other than for the income generated by high enrollments, and that this is but a toy example, many naive analysts turn to the well-known analysis […]
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