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Yearly Archives: 2023

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  • 25 May 2023
    Alla Pozdnakova, Froukje Maria Platjouw

    Our Oceans are in Jeopardy! Can we trust the Rule of Law to fix it?

    Several important legal events have happened to the ocean environment lately. The 29th of March 2023 was a historical day for the international rule of law to prevail. On this day, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice to clarify states’ obligations to tackle […]

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  • 24 May 2023
    Robert William Rix

    The Vanished Settlers of Greenland: In Search of a Legend and Its Legacy

    In Vikings: Valhalla, the drama television series created for Netflix, one of the central characters is Leif Eriksson, who comes from the outer fringes of the known world, along with other Norse Greenlanders. While the representations in the series may be fanciful, the existence of Norse inhabitants in Greenland is a historical fact. In the […]

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  • 24 May 2023
    Nandini Chakraborty

    The specialist register in psychiatry- finding a route that is right for you

    Specialist registration with the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom is recognition of the higher specialist competencies of a doctor. Before attaining a substantive consultant post in the UK, doctors must be included on the specialist register of the GMC. Most doctors will attain their specialist registration through the CCT (certificate of completion of […]

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  • 24 May 2023
    Michael Pope

    The Scandalous Nature of Things

    From the beginning of his poem, Lucretius is decidedly unsubtle. In quick succession the audience encounters the language of pleasure, verdant flora, lusty fauna, sexual reproduction, and an erotic scene between Venus and Mars that gushes with sensuality and hungry orifices. Some readers probably feel like it is a bit of a bait and switch […]

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  • 24 May 2023
    Lea Niccolai

    Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power:Constantine, Julian and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire

    The young Augustine was repelled by the Gospels. Or so he says, at least, in a passage from the Confessions (3.5.9) in which he reflects on his former, ‘inflated pride’. The student of rhetoric in love with Latin literature struggled to accept a written style that he perceived as ‘unworthy’ of his Marcus Tully (Cicero). […]

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  • 23 May 2023
    Karenleigh A. Overmann

    An archaeological approach to … numbers??!

    The question of where numbers come from is perhaps one of the last great mysteries of our time. Today, numbers are seemingly everywhere, and yet, they are nowhere to be found in nature. Ancient Greek philosophers like Plato thought that numbers were universals, eternal concepts that were in a sense real, albeit differing substantially in […]

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  • 23 May 2023
    Thomas Dietz

    What Should We Do?

    What should we do about climate change? species loss?  the growing power of artificial intelligence?  inequality and violence?

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  • 22 May 2023
    Medieval Polyphony and Song by Helen Deeming and Frieda van der Heijden
    Helen Deeming, Frieda van der Heijden

    Medieval Music and the Human

    What would an introductory guide to medieval music look like if it were based around the humans involved in music-making? It’s perhaps not surprising that medieval music history has often been written around genres – musical objects – rather than people, because so many of medieval music’s personalities are simply unknown. In writing Medieval Polyphony […]

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