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Yearly Archives: 2022

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  • 1 Sep 2022
    Assal Rad

    What Do Iranians Think About the Iran Nuclear Deal?

    As the United States, Iran, and world powers inch closer to restoring the landmark 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal—formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—issues like American interests, global security, and international diplomacy frequently take center stage. But what do Iranians themselves think about the deal and its trajectory in recent years? To […]

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  • 1 Sep 2022
    Bruce Clarke, Sébastien Dutreuil

    The Scientific Collaboration that Brought Gaia to the World

    With a two-page letter to the editor of the scientific journal Atmospheric Environment published in 1972, the English scientist and inventor James Lovelock (1919-2022) introduced Gaia into the professional literature.

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  • 30 Aug 2022
    Mark Bartholomew

    What Is Art?

    What is art? That’s at the heart of a copyright dispute involving two artists who both did the same thing: tape a banana to a wall. A federal court in Florida waded into the issue in July. Beginning his opinion with the question, “Can a banana taped to a wall be art?,” a Miami judge […]

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  • 29 Aug 2022
    An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom by Alain Naef
    Alain Naef

    Q&A: An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945-1992

    What do you find so interesting about sterling and currencies more broadly? The story of sterling after the second world war is fascinating as it is mirroring the decline of the British Empire. Sterling was the currency of a whole colonial Empire which slowly declined. The GDP of the United Kingdom was falling, and so […]

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  • 29 Aug 2022
    Emily Postan

    Identity bytes: discovering donor conception online

    Does it matter that you know who your genetic parents are, who you are related to, and how the story of your life began? Does it matter for your emotional wellbeing, or your feelings of connectedness and belonging? Is it significant to your identity and sense of who you are? These questions sit at the […]

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  • 23 Aug 2022
    Colin S. C. Hawes

    Has the Communist Party of China (CPC) increased its control over private corporations?

    Numerous recent media reports have claimed that President Xi Jinping has greatly expanded the CPC’s presence in private business firms,1 with some giving estimates that 68% of private Chinese firms now have a Communist Party branch within the firm, and some regions are aiming for 95% coverage.2 According to one high profile US Congressional investigation […]

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  • 23 Aug 2022
    Edward Aspinall, Meredith L. Weiss, Allen Hicken, Paul D. Hutchcroft

    A tale of two elections: how “money politics” is shaped by national context

    May 2022 in the Philippines. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. was running for president of the Philippines, in tandem with Sara Duterte, daughter of the term-limited incumbent, Rodrigo Duterte. Both domestic and international attention zeroed in on the presidential contest—debating whether the son of a disgraced former dictator could win. (He could and did, handily.) But […]

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  • 22 Aug 2022
    David M. Greer

    Q&A with David M. Greer, author of Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine

    What inspired you to write Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine? Great question. To be honest, I was surprised to find out that there wasn’t already a book on this subject, and that people weren’t talking about the importance of leadership in medicine.

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