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Yearly Archives: 2022

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  • 4 Jul 2022
    Akaki Rusetsky, Ulf-G Meißner

    What are Effective Field Theories?

    The quantum world is governed by a large number of different energy or length scales, as clearly seen in the hydrogen atom, where an essentially point like electron is bound to a proton.

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  • 28 Jun 2022
    Richard Gaskins

    Some Realism about the International Criminal Court

    The facts on the ground are grim. War in Ukraine has been grindingly destructive, as days and weeks turn into months. As Ukrainian cities are being levelled, civilian targets range from the theatre in Mariupol, to the streets of Bucha, to the train station in Kramatorsk. The helplessness of the West can be measured by […]

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  • 27 Jun 2022
    Kathy Dodworth

    Legitimacy: crisis or continuity?

    We are, according to US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in a ‘crisis of legitimacy’. The US Supreme Court’s overturning of long-settled law Roe vs Wade regarding women’s right to abortion does not reflect US public opinion at large. Trust in the court itself is at an all-time-low, she laid out in a Twitter series on 25 […]

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  • 27 Jun 2022
    Floriana Irtelli, Fabio Gabrielli

    The fragile landscapes of the body

    Combining psychoanalysis, philosophy and anthropology, scientific research and clinical experience, this essay is a truly unique interdisciplinary book, in which the explores how the body represents a contact with the world, which can occur in both healthy and pathological ways. The analysis of corporeality and its pathological offshoots, specifically eating disorders, is not only traced […]

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  • 24 Jun 2022
    James Bacchus

    Trade Links: New Rules for a New World

    In a time of increasing international turmoil, the World Trade Organization is undergoing an existential crisis. Trade links the world not only through the flow of international commerce in goods, services, and ideas, but also through its economic, environmental, and social impacts. Trade links are supported by a WTO trading system founded on rules established […]

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  • 20 Jun 2022
    Elizabeth A. Hoffmann

    Breastfeeding Moms Need Formula, too, Because Workplace Milk-Pumping Accommodations Often Inadequate

    To date, millions of American parents have been impacted by the baby formula shortage but breastfeeding parents largely remain unpanicked. Social media has exploded with posts taking note of this and suggesting that this benefit might spur reluctant parents to embrace breastfeeding. But this advice fails to acknowledge that breastfeeding without supplementing with formula is […]

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  • 16 Jun 2022
    Jean-Claude Poursat, Carl Knappett

    Six millennia of Aegean art… in six hundred pages

    This book, initially published in French as ‘L’art égéen’ (two volumes, Paris 2008-2014), provides a history of the artistic output accompanying the development of Aegean civilisations, from the Neolithic (c.7000 BC) to the end of the Bronze Age (c.1050/1000 BC). During this long period, the Aegean world sees a remarkable development of artistic creations and […]

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  • 16 Jun 2022
    Joanne Allen

    Secular Acts and Bad Behavior in the Italian Renaissance Church Interior

    In the opening to The Decameron (c. 1350), Boccaccio described how the ten young people who would become storytellers in his book met in a Florentine church during the height of the Black Death: “it chanced […] that there foregathered in the venerable church of Santa Maria Novella, one Tuesday morning when there was well-nigh […]

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