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  • 9 Jul 2020
    Artist’s impression of Perseverance on the Martian surface.
    Wallace Arthur

    Mars: The nearest part of the biological universe?

    Author of The Biological Universe, Wallace Arthur, discusses what we can expect from the NASA Mars 2020 mission. The launch date is correct at time of publication.

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  • 9 Jul 2020
    Law and Reputation image Top Secret
    Roy Shapira

    Law as Source

    The legal system is the bloodline for investigative journalism, yet proposed legal reforms may jeopardize it When Spotlight won the 2015 Oscar for Best Picture, it was billed as a movie about investigative reporters holding the Catholic Church to account over child sex abuse. But the reporters could not have done it alone. The legal […]

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  • 8 Jul 2020
    Heather Stur

    Voices from South Vietnam

    When I lived in Vietnam as a Fulbright scholar a few years ago, I met a restaurant owner named Nickie Tran. The food she served was some of the best I’d had in Ho Chi Minh City, so I kept going back, and we struck up a friendship over hot pot, tea, and beer, sitting […]

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  • 7 Jul 2020
    Charles Forsdick, Tim Youngs

    Extending the confines of travel

    In common with many other people, the months of near-lockdown find us reflecting on our previous experiences and work. As scholars working on literatures of mobility, this means thinking in particular about our own and others’ travels, how journeys are written about, and how academics study them. We share the irony noted in recent articles […]

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  • 6 Jul 2020
    Richard Hammond

    Strangling the Axis – Author Q and A

    We asked author Richard Hammond the questions you wanted to know about his new book Strangling the Axis! Here are his answers: Was the @RoyalAirForce level of effort in the Mediterranean appropriate or should it have done more? Good question! As the book demonstrates, aircraft (RAF, Fleet Air Arm and later USAAF assets) played an […]

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  • 6 Jul 2020
    Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House

    Interactional Rituals: Rites of aggression

    Before venturing into a fully-fledged linguistic analysis of ritual behaviour during this time of social distancing, one issue worth discussing is the typological concept of ‘rites of aggression’. The previous ‘Interactional Rituals’ blog entries might have given the reader the impression that interactional rituals are primarily about maintaining social harmony, and it is the violation […]

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  • 3 Jul 2020
    Alda Balthrop-Lewis

    In the Footsteps of Thoreau

    Many people I know have been out walking more, since COVID-19 upended our routines and transformed our daily lives. For a while, during the first shutdown, the activity of walking was the only way in which people could meet up. Restrictions in Melbourne, Australia – where I live – indicated that socially distanced, outdoor exercise […]

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  • 3 Jul 2020
    William Everett, Lynda Payne

    Opera in the time of cholera: Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and a pandemic

    A corpse is lifted from the back of a wagon during the 1832 cholera epidemic. Coloured lithograph, c. 1832.

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