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Yearly Archives: 2021

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  • 26 May 2021
    Wallace Arthur

    How do new types of animal originate?

    Wallace Arthur, author of Understanding Evo-Devo, sheds light on the way in which radically new animal forms arise in the course of evolution

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  • 25 May 2021
    Marloes Janson

    Let’s Be Afro-Realistic: Muslim-Christian Manifold Relations in Nigeria

    ‘What’s Wrong with Nigeria?’; ‘Nigeria in Crisis’; ‘Nigeria’s Religious Riots Continue’; ‘Boko Haram: World’s Deadliest Terror Organization’: this is just a random selection of national and international newspaper headlines on Nigeria, showcasing the tendency to associate Nigeria with conflict and violence. This tendency ties in with ‘Afro-pessimism’, a lens of interpretation that perceives Africa as […]

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  • 25 May 2021
    Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, Daniel J. Smith

    Money and the Rule of Law

    Monetary policy and the Federal Reserve seem boring to most people…until they’re not. And when things get lively, serious economic damage usually follows. There’s a reason the expression “May you live in interesting times” is regarded as a curse! Truthfully, citizens should pay more attention to the Fed, even during tranquil times. Money plays a […]

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  • 24 May 2021
    Hosanna Krienke

    Learning How to Recover in a Post-Pandemic Era

    To be convalescent, in the nineteenth century, was to have survived a medical crisis and to be still picking up the pieces. The category of convalescence could be applied to the survival of all kinds of traumatic medical experiences—a brush with death in a cholera epidemic, an emergency amputation, even a mental health crisis. Convalescents […]

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  • 22 May 2021
    Norman J. Wagner, Jan Mewis

    Q&A: Theory and Applications of Colloidal Suspension Rheology

    What inspired this book? Colloidal suspension rheology continues to be among the most active areas of research in the field of soft matter as evidenced from the literature and among the most subscribed topical area at conferences world-wide. Furthermore, the wide-ranging benefits from its industrial application as well as the emerging challenges that span so […]

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  • 21 May 2021
    Adrian C. Newton

    Are the world’s ecosystems about to collapse?

    In 2016, a major environmental crisis occurred: much of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef bleached and died. The Barrier Reef is one of the natural wonders of the world, home to thousands of species, which together create a dazzling array of colour and movement. So to see the Reef suffer in this way is a genuine […]

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  • 21 May 2021
    Joshua John Clarkson

    Structuring Self Control

    In my experience, people exhibit an innate fascination with the self and, specifically, the extent to which they are able to command, regulate, or control it. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle each spoke of the virtues of exerting power over oneself, the importance of regulating one’s morals and one’s impulses is central to Freud’s view of […]

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  • 19 May 2021
    Hungarian refugees receiving food aid, 1956 Photo Credit: UNHRC
    Becky Taylor

    Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain

    What can we gain, as historians, if we look closely at the history of refugees in Britain? In my new book I argue that it can illuminate all sorts of unexpected areas of British life, society, and government, and how it has changed over time. How? Well. Refugees are awkward. Their arrivals are typically unpredictable […]

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