With all eyes turned towards North Korea, many are wondering if there is a solution that can prevent a potentially devastating war in the Korean peninsula and a way to achieve North Korea’s nuclear disarmament...
Read More‘Puerperal psychosis’ Psychosis after childbirth was first mentioned by Hippocrates, who reported delirium complicating puerperal sepsis in 8/17 case histories in women (covering the whole of medicine) – a prominence puerperal psychosis has never regained. These psychoses complicate about 1/1,000 births, so that there are about 125,000 cases worldwide each year. They are severe […]
Read MoreThis book was a long time in the making – the research and writing took about ten years – and the ideas that gave rise to it go back even further, to the first time I read Beckett (nothing glamorous: this was a chance encounter involving a rainy holiday and a box of books left […]
Read MoreMerim Bilalić author of The Neuroscience of Expertise analyses the up and coming richest boxing match in history and predicts the outcome using neuroscience theory.
Read MoreThis summer I worked on the Greenland ice sheet, part of a scientific experiment to study surface melting and its contribution to Greenland’s accelerating ice losses. By virtue of its size, elevation and currently frozen state, Greenland has the potential to cause large and rapid increases to sea level as it melts. When I returned, […]
Read MoreThe Lives of the Philosophers, a series published by Cambridge University Press, shows why biography is important and what it can tell us about the work of its various subjects. Sensitively charting the interplay between an author’s life and text, each book implicitly challenges those thinkers who view biographies as secondary or even irrelevant to […]
Read MorePresident Theodore Roosevelt once overcame a speech impediment. Jeremy C. Young explores his journey as a public speaker.
Read MorePanos Y. Papalambros, co-author of Principles of Optimal Design: Modelling and Computation, tells us more about the recent 3rd edition.
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