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Yearly Archives: 2017

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  • 23 Aug 2017
    Byung-Yeon Kim

    “Unveiling the North Korean Economy” Unveils the Solution for the North Korean Crisis

    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...

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  • 23 Aug 2017
    Ian Brockington

    The psychosis of childbearing

    ‘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 […]

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  • 22 Aug 2017
    Emilie Morin

    Beckett’s Political Imagination

    This 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 […]

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  • 21 Aug 2017
    Merim Bilalić

    Cambridge Author Predicts Mayweather vs McGregor Using Neuroscience

    Merim Bilalić author of The Neuroscience of Expertise analyses the up and coming richest boxing match in history and predicts the outcome using neuroscience theory.

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  • 18 Aug 2017
    Curbing Catastrophe by Tim Dixon
    Timothy H. Dixon

    Curbing Climate Change: Why it’s so hard to act in time

    This 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, […]

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  • 16 Aug 2017
    Daniel Blue

    The Lives of the Philosophers – Why They Matter

    The 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 […]

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  • 10 Aug 2017
    Jeremy C. Young

    Was Teddy Roosevelt a Good Public Speaker?

    President Theodore Roosevelt once overcame a speech impediment. Jeremy C. Young explores his journey as a public speaker.

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  • 8 Aug 2017

    Q&A with Panos Y. Papalambros

    Panos Y. Papalambros, co-author of Principles of Optimal Design: Modelling and Computation, tells us more about the recent 3rd edition.

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