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Yearly Archives: 2026

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  • 27 Oct 2026
    Svitlana Lebedenko

    Overlooked Experiments: A Century of Innovation Law in Russia

    Russia is not a textbook example in the innovation studies literature – it is either ignored or considered an outlier because of its political regime. Russia’s current innovation system is largely fragmented. Yet it remains capable of making significant advancements in certain sectors of national importance. Authoritarianism alone cannot explain this pattern. The desire to […]

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  • 27 Oct 2026
    Genevive Bjorn

    After 15 Countries and Dozens of Workshops, One Critical Reading Challenge Stands Out

    Unlock the secrets of scientific articles with CERIC: Claim, Evidence, Reasoning, Implications, and Context. This approachable guide helps readers break down dense articles into their core arguments using a focused hunt-and-seek approach, enabling deeper insight and engagement with the research literature. Each chapter features worked examples drawn from multiple scientific disciplines, pre-empts common misunderstandings, and provides knowledge checks to reinforce learning.

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  • 27 Oct 2026
    Pat Rogers

    Edmund Curll at Work: Publishing Strategies in Eighteenth-Century England

    Edmund Curll has gone down as the bad boy of British publishing, and it would be an affectation to disagree with this verdict. Even people with no special interest in book history or the eighteenth century may have come across him, called out as an unscrupulous operator who produced risqué volumes and pirated the works […]

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  • 27 Oct 2026
    Alessandro Vercelli

    Pluralism and Complexity

    Pluralism in research is based on the awareness that often we can answer any research question in different ways. Which one is preferable depends on many factors and circumstances rather than on general rules. This applies in all empirical sciences notwithstanding the traditional conviction that a science has just to seek truth and that truth […]

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  • 27 Oct 2026
    Aron J. Beekman, Louk Rademaker, Jasper van Wezel

    How everyday structures defy the symmetric laws of nature

    Spontaneous symmetry breaking lies at the heart of modern physics, shaping our understanding of matter, forces, and even the universe itself. From condensed matter physics to particle physics and cosmology, spontaneous symmetry breaking unifies phenomena that at first seem worlds apart.

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  • 26 Oct 2026
    Christina P. Davis, Chaise LaDousa

    Mother Tongue and English: The Politics of Language in Indian Higher Education

    Institutionalized as a census category in 1881, the concept of mother tongue is central in education policy, scholarly discourse, and popular understandings of language and social identity in contemporary India. In 2020, the National Democratic Alliance government, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, released the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), which proposes changes to […]

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  • 21 Oct 2026
    David L. Hildebrand, Nicola Ramazzotto

    Experience and Nature at One Hundred

    John Dewey’s Experience and Nature (1925), the great jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., once said, conveyed to him “a feeling of intimacy with the inside of the cosmos”; it read, he continues, as “God would have spoken had He been inarticulate but keenly desirous to tell you how it was.” Experience and Nature is widely […]

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  • 19 Oct 2026
    Víctor Goldgel Carballo

    Enslaved Poets

    Whenever I mention that I’ve just written a book on slavery and literature in Cuba in the nineteenth century, the conversation almost immediately turns to the present. Do I travel to Cuba? How do Cubans survive? How do they keep food with 40- or 50-hour-long blackouts? The present, however, is never as far from the […]

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