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When people learn that I’ve been working on a book on nineteenth-century Scottish women writers, they frequently ask ‘were there any’? This is an understandable question. In fact, it’s the question that motivated me to write Scottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century. I wondered why England and the United States saw a substantial […]
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How DNA Ancestry companies reach their findings from a person’s cells remains a mystery to almost everyone who purchases the service. Sheldon Krimsky author of Understanding DNA Ancestry aims to de-mystify the science behind the claims.
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On February 29th 2020, I submitted my manuscript “Beings of Thought and Action” to CUP for review. While I did register news of cases of COVID-19 in Europe, little did I know what that would mean for the future. In July 2021, “Beings Of Thought and Action” is being published in a world that isn’t […]
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Humanity has made major, albeit inequitable, progress in health and development in recent history but this has come at a cost to the natural systems that underpin human progress. We live in an epoch when human activities are driving multiple environmental changes including climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution of the air, soil and water- widely referred to as the Anthropocene.
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Voting laws recently passed or awaiting passage in Republican-controlled state legislatures along with the outrageous vote “audit” ongoing in Arizona have been widely covered in the press through a focus on the racial animus that underlies them. Rightly so, given the Republican Party’s increasingly explicit embrace of white-identity politics and the evidence from Georgia, where […]
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When Netflix released its limited series “The Queen’s Gambit” last year, who would have predicted that a show about a girl chess prodigy would reach the # 1 spot in 63 countries? The international success of the series (based on the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis) suggests that audiences across the globe were eager to […]
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Robots have been part of human culture for a hundred years. How can we ensure that they support — rather than supplant — humans over the next hundred? The word ‘robot’ entered the modern lexicon a hundred years ago this year with the première at Prague’s National Theatre of Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. Set on […]
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During the socially and politically turbulent seventeenth century, Moroccan scholars studied the natural and mathematical sciences throughout a network of rural and urban institutions of learning that were closely associated with Sufi orders, the Maliki school of jurisprudence, and the Ash‘ari creed of theology. Their study of these sciences resulted in their writing works in […]
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