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  • 27 Aug 2020
    Ester Salgarella

    Aegean Linear Script(s): Rethinking the Relationship between Linear A and Linear B

    When does a continuum become a divide? This book investigates the genetic relationship between Linear A and Linear B (henceforth LA and LB), two Bronze Age scripts attested on Crete and Mainland Greece and understood to have developed one straight out of the other. By using a highly interdisciplinary methodology, I integrated linguistic, epigraphic, palaeographic […]

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  • 26 Aug 2020
    Martin Hensher

    COVID-19 and the economics of information: uncomfortable lessons for sustainability?

    COVID-19 has confirmed some long-understood yet long-ignored truths about the economics of information, and has also highlighted deeply disturbing fractures in today’s information ecology COVID-19 has delivered an extraordinary shock to humanity. Advocates and researchers working on sustainability have rightly seized on the similarly extraordinary opportunity that the (eventual) recovery from this pandemic offers: to […]

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  • 25 Aug 2020
    Samuel Fury Childs Daly

    The Fine Line Between War and Crime

    Military-grade arms for sale in a public market, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, c. 1971. South African Defence Force Archive, Pretoria, GP 15, Box 26.

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  • 25 Aug 2020
    Eric A. Silk

    A Q&A with Eric A. Silk: Introduction to Spacecraft Thermal Design

    What inspired this book? In accepting the role of instructor for the UMD (University of Maryland) course entitled “Spacecraft Thermal Design”, which the book is based upon, I quickly learned that this topic included an unanticipated challenge. In researching reference texts for the course, it quickly became apparent that there was no textbook available that […]

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  • 24 Aug 2020
    John D. Turner, William Quinn

    Is There a Bubble in the Stock Market?

    Our study of over 300 years of bubble history reveals that for there to be a bubble, there are three necessary conditions...

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  • 24 Aug 2020

    Social Factors in the Personality Disorders: Finding a Niche

    Everyone has a personality. This term describes individual differences in behavior, emotion, and thought that make each person unique. Yet however different they are, most people find a niche in the world that suits their traits. Not everyone succeeds. Community studies suggest that about one in ten have a diagnosable personality disorder (PD). That term […]

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  • 21 Aug 2020
    Wallace Arthur

    From 42 to 4200: Life in the Universe, but not Everything?

    The rapidly-increasing number of known planets has just passed the 4200 mark, according to NASA. The upshot of this is that we may now have enough planets to detect extraterrestrial life, even if we never discovered any more planets, which is most unlikely given that there are over 5000 additional ‘candidate planets’ awaiting confirmation. Discovering […]

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  • 21 Aug 2020
    Daniel Cook

    Stealing Poetry

    “To steal a Hint was never known,But what he writ was all his own.” Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, D.S.P.D. Part way through his most famous self-elegy, Jonathan Swift delivers one of the greatest one-line gags in poetry: ‘what he writ was all his own’. The ostensibly proprietorial phrase was brazenly lifted from […]

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