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Yearly Archives: 2024

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  • 14 Oct 2024
    Michel L. Racine, Holger P. Petersson, Skip Garibaldi

    Albert algebras: the last frontier of Jordan systems

    We are the kind of people who are always interested in the strongest example of something, the paragon.  When we eat Swiss cheese (Emmental), we want our senses to tell us that; we shouldn’t have any doubts that maybe we are eating cheddar.   This book takes the same approach to Jordan systems in mathematics. […]

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  • 10 Oct 2024
    David C. Henshall

    The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is Awarded for the Discovery of MicroRNAs: Why It Matters

    The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded on October 7th to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs). This ground-breaking finding transformed our understanding of how gene activity is controlled. I am the author of a new book on the topic: ‘Fine-Tuning Life: A guide to microRNAs, your […]

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  • 19 Sep 2024
    Edward Burke

    Ulster’s Lost Counties: A Warning from the Past?

    In the midst of the Anglo-Irish War, on 21 August 1920, fourteen IRA volunteers attacked a farm owned by the Corscadden family at Carricknahorna in the hills of South Donegal. This was later the family home of Hazel Corscadden, the mother of future British prime minister Tony Blair. James Corscadden, the owner of the farm, […]

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  • 19 Sep 2024
    Marie-Amélie George

    Finding Hope for the Future in Queer History

    LGBTQ+ rights are under attack around the country. In just the first six months of 2024, state legislators introduced 527 bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community. The situation is so dire that the Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans.             Although these legal attacks are painful and dispiriting, the LGBTQ+ movement’s […]

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  • 18 Sep 2024
    Verna Kale, Sandra Spanier

    Hemingway and Writing for the “Long Future”

    Volume 6 of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, spanning June 1934 through June 1936, includes 366 items of correspondence, directed to 116 recipients. In our introductions to the volume, we note that Hemingway’s enthusiasm for the growing sport of deep-sea fishing is a dominant theme of his letters of this period. Accordingly, in the photos […]

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  • 17 Sep 2024
    Karen Stollznow

    “They’re eating the pets” Racial stereotyping in politics

    When viewers watched the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, they were astonished when the latter candidate made the claim that immigrants in Ohio are eating cats and dogs. Trump said, “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the […]

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  • 16 Sep 2024
    Rina Arya, Dinesh Bhugra

    ‘Where are you from? No, where are you really from?’ Questions from the other side of the table.

    In all stages of psychopathology — the expression, experience, development, outcome, help-seeking and treatment interventions — culture is central. [1] Definitions of culture vary enormously and are often contested but, for the purposes here, is taken to mean the norms, practices and values of a group. Cultural psychiatry evolved to meet precisely this imperative of […]

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  • 5 Sep 2024
    John Cleland, Peter Sabor, Richard Terry, Helen Williams

    John Cleland Plays Dead?

    John Cleland, best remembered as the author of the erotic novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748-49), was a tricksy and entertaining correspondent. His letters, just published by Cambridge University Press, reveal his attempts to insinuate himself with the rich and powerful at the same time as he teased them for what he perceived to be […]

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