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Yearly Archives: 2021

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  • 5 May 2021
    Guides to the Coinage of the Ancient World

    Using Coins as Sources

    We hope you have been enjoying The Cambridge Forum webinar series! A couple of weeks ago, we had a great session exploring what coins can tell us about the Classical world....

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  • 5 May 2021
    Sonia E. Rolland, David M. Trubek

    International Economic Relations Need New Rules and Emerging Countries Have Some Answers

    Dismay over the current state of international economic relations has some policymakers longing for return to some imaginary notion of the good old days. But this is a time to look forward, not back. The old rules failed us in many ways: they fostered domestic inequality in some countries, limited development options in many, and […]

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  • 5 May 2021
    Joel L. Dawson

    Control your knowledge of feedback control

    Feedback dynamics is a topic that many engineers feel they should know. Feedback loops appear everywhere in engineering and science, and a command of feedback greatly increases one’s ability to design useful, robust machines. But it is also true that regardless of where you are in your engineering career, you have plenty of reason not […]

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  • 5 May 2021
    Erkan Dokumacı

    A history of duct acoustics

    How is sound generated and transmitted in ducts? This question is studied in duct acoustics, a branch of acoustics. Why do we study duct acoustics? I hope that this post will complement my recent book Duct Acoustics for the answer. According to the archeological findings, history of duct acoustics is as old human history. We […]

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  • 5 May 2021
    Elena N. Boeck

    A Forgotten Colossus: Recovering the Legacies of the Most Cross-Culturally Significant Sculptural Monument of the Medieval Mediterranean

    Recent controversies remind us that popular perceptions can be as crucial as plinths and pedestals for propping up monuments. A perfect storm of controversy in 2016, and again in 2020, led to the dismantling, veiling, or relocating of dozens of statues of southern slaveholders and confederate generals in the United States. In Ukraine 1,320 Lenin […]

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  • 3 May 2021
    Simon Brinsmead

    When does information become an essential facility?

    Can a digital platform like Google Search, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or Uber become an essential facility, a sort of information infrastructure? Digital platforms of various kinds are becoming indispensable business partners for a plethora of businesses, including proprietors of news content. Dominant platforms appear to be in a position of ‘co-opetition’ with news content providers, […]

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  • 30 Apr 2021

    STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST ASIAN AMERICANS

    In response to escalating xenophobia and bigotry against Asian Americans at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center was formed on March 19, 2020 to track and respond to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning, and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. A […]

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  • 30 Apr 2021
    Christopher Travers, Samantha Perera, Dan Cleall

    Why might ethnicity affect outcomes in postgraduate medical exams?

    This month, our book “The Maudsley Trainee Guide to the CASC: Preparing for the MRCPsych CASC Examination” will be published after years of tireless labour. We were driven to create this preparatory guide by a lack of suitable existent materials, and a desire to address what we perceived as disparities in exam outcomes – for […]

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