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Yearly Archives: 2021

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  • 15 Jun 2021
    Dru Johnson

    The Biblical Authors Should Count as Philosophers

    Why isn’t the biblical literature taught alongside other philosophies? By any objective criteria, it measures up to the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. In Biblical Philosophy: A Hebraic Approach to the Old and New Testaments, I contend that the biblical literature should be treated as a philosophical tradition, and I show how the New Testament […]

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  • 14 Jun 2021
    Carmen Pérez-Llantada

    Beyond lipstick: how languages can change the scientific Babel

    As an applied linguist interested in science communication, an important specialised domain of language in society today, I have developed high perceptiveness of the richness and the power of the words that scientists skilfully and craftily use to describe observable facts, share them with their expert peers and persuasively align their readership’s views with their […]

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  • 11 Jun 2021
    Baudouin Dupret

    From exegesis to stem cells, from governance to finance: Islamic norms in a positivist way

    During the 1990s, in Egypt, Professor Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd was prosecuted by a group of attorneys and condemned by two courts of the Egyptian national judicial system to be divorced from his wife based on a Civil Code provision forbidding a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man and a literalist reading of the […]

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  • 11 Jun 2021
    James N. Loehlin

    Tom Stoppard in Context

    Tom Stoppard is one of the world’s most lauded and commercially successful playwrights, author of more than a dozen award-winning and profitable plays for the West End and Broadway. He has also been successful in film, co-writing the Oscar-winning screenplay Shakespeare in Love, and serving as a frequent script-doctor for Steven Spielberg and other Hollywood […]

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  • 11 Jun 2021
    Tsung-Han Tsai

    Hearing E. M. Forster

    Most readers recognize E. M. Forster as the early twentieth-century writer who wrote about India; some remember his socially relevant and thematically wide-ranging Edwardian novels and short stories, and a posthumously published novel about male homosexuality. What many might not have known is that, in 1969, Benjamin Britten praised Forster as ‘our most musical novelist’. […]

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  • 10 Jun 2021
    Simon Mitton

    Jean-Baptiste Biot, founder of the scientific study of meteorites

    Four years ago, when I began to write From Crust to Core, A chronicle of deep carbon science, the astrophysicist in me looked forward to documenting the story of how Earth’s carbon originated long ago in stellar explosions. Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe. On Earth it is ranked only fifteenth […]

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  • 10 Jun 2021
    Kristina Simion

    The in-betweens in Myanmar: What is happening after authoritarian relapse and military take-over?

    Myanmar’s transition after a new civilianized government emerged in 2011 came to excite investors and development practitioners from across the world. Economic capital Yangon circa 2014 was a town where new met old. Small trendy cafés and hidden bars were popping up in the most unexpected locations. Young and eager development practitioners were confident about […]

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  • 9 Jun 2021
    Gavin Jones

    Steinbeck vs. Werewolf

    Writing a book about John Steinbeck has many twists and turns, but something I never expected was to go viral in the process. I was interviewed by Dalya Alberge for The Guardian/The Observer about my interest in Steinbeck, but then the story was picked up by The New York Times and a host of other […]

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