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Yearly Archives: 2019

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  • 25 Jun 2019
    Martin Andrew Jarrett

    Standing Up to Investor Misconduct

    Adjudicative bodies applying international law usually operate in blissful obscurity.  Although their decisions are of global significance because they, for example, define state territorial boundaries, they generate very limited media coverage. The same was true for decisions of arbitral tribunals applying international investment law.  With the entry into force of the two main investment treaties […]

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  • 25 Jun 2019
    Danko Šipka

    Concepts on the chopping block, Word Trade, and Rock-star Linguists…

    English speakers are always in the driver’s seat. They use phrases like I am bored, I am cold, I feel like doing something, I like something or someone, etc. In contrast, the Slavs (Russians, Poles, Serbs, etc.) use the phrases with the mysterious it that rules their lives, so they will literally say: Boring to […]

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  • 24 Jun 2019
    Judith Bunbury

    The Nile’s Journey Through Time

    When Herodotus visited Egypt in the fifth millennium BC, he noted how Egypt was the gift of the Nile, since the fertile black muds that arrived with the annual flood were the foundation of Egyptian agriculture. Beyond its annual flood, the Nile river has often been regarded as stable and eternal over the longer term; […]

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  • 15 Jun 2019
    Mike Berners-Lee

    What is it like to record your own audiobook?

    Author Mike Berners-Lee gives us an insight into what it’s like to record an audiobook version of his book “There Is No Planet B“ “ When I write, I am thinking of myself talking, which is why people say my books sound chatty and why, in a way, audio is the most natural format for […]

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  • 14 Jun 2019
    Steven T. Katz

    The Holocaust and New World Slavery

    It is almost inevitable that conversations regarding the Holocaust will generate questions of comparison to other historical instances of mass death. And, conversely, it is almost unavoidable when discussing instances of mass death to to ask how event X or Y compares to the Holocaust.  This circumstance has, in fact, been evidenced in the continually […]

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  • 14 Jun 2019
    Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Hyun-Seob Song

    Q&A with authors of ‘Cybernetic Modeling for Bioreaction Engineering’

    From Doraiswami Ramkrishna and Hyun-Seob Song, authors of 'Cybernetic Modeling for Bioreaction Engineering'

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  • 13 Jun 2019
    Ahmet T. Kuru

    Is Religion-State Separation Possible in Islam?

    In both academia and the media, a well-known perception is that Christianity essentially embraces religion-state separation whereas Islam essentially rejects it. Defenders of this perception provide some textual evidences. To show religion-state separation in Christianity, they quote a Biblical phrase, “render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are […]

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  • 13 Jun 2019
    Michael Thai, Charlie Crimston, Fiona Barlow

    The life changing magic of (LGBT+) stories – Charlie Rose Crimston, Michael Thai, and Fiona Kate Barlow

    In support of Pride Month chapter authors and editor of The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice discuss the [lack of] presence of LGBT+ characters in film, television and games.

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