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Yearly Archives: 2026

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  • 15 Jul 2026
    Philippa Carter

    Frenzy in Early Modern England: Madness, Brain Disease and the Soul

    In the last decade of his life, my paternal grandfather suffered from undiagnosed vascular dementia. During those years, we saw sudden changes in his speech, mood, personality and behaviour, ranging from unprovoked aggression to gloomy withdrawal. His son – my father – is a committed Christian, who believes that every human soul will live forever. […]

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  • 15 Jul 2026
    Coryn Bailer-Jones

    Interstellar Travel

    Human-built spacecraft have visited every single planet in our solar system, as well as several comets and asteroids. We have landed robotic spacecraft not only on Venus and Mars but also on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. Spacecraft have dived down close to the Sun’s surface and others have escaped the solar system, flung […]

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  • 14 Jul 2026
    Meena Mehta Kotecha

    From fear to confidence: tackling mathematics anxiety in university students

    If students have already passed mathematics at school, why do so many still experience mathematics anxiety at university? For a significant number of learners, mathematics anxiety does not disappear with age or progression. Instead, it evolves, becoming more deeply embedded in how they think, learn, and participate in higher education.

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  • 13 Jul 2026
    Kyle Beardsley

    What do NATO and the MCU’s Avengers have in common?

    “There may be a causality. Our very strength invites challenge. Challenge incites conflict. And conflict breeds catastrophe.” -Vision, in Captain America: Civil War Who your friends are shapes who your enemies are and vice versa. NATO bears this out well. NATO is a relational web of security assistance that was necessary to defend against and […]

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  • 13 Jul 2026
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    Gabriel Cepaluni

    Capitalism Creates Abundance. Democracy Must Share It.

    We live through a strange paradox. Liberal democracy and the market economy produced the greatest expansion of prosperity in history — yet faith in both is fraying at once, pressed by authoritarianism, populism, and a sense that the economy works only for those at the top. The question behind Capitalism and Development: Steering Markets Toward […]

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  • 13 Jul 2026
    Giulia Valpione

    Questioning the Self and Nature: The Early German Romantics

    A few years ago, I started to question the role and status of the human being in the natural realm. Although we know very well that we are animals, we feel that we occupy a special place in nature—at least, so it is in the Western culture. We are part of nature, even though the […]

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  • 13 Jul 2026
    Hallie G. Meredith

    Out of the Margins: Late Antique Craftworkers in the Making

    While a university student, by chance I took an elective course in glassblowing. One of the first things I remember is learning how to hold the heavy metal blowpipe. Against the soundtrack of a loud and blisteringly hot furnace – similar to what the ancient Romans who invented glassblowing likely experienced – I was introduced […]

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  • 9 Jul 2026
    Yasmin Solomonescu

    The Art of Non-Conviction

    Have the courage of your convictions. Be a person of conviction. Carry conviction. Stand tall in your conviction. As these idioms attest, we have a strong cultural conviction that conviction is a virtue and that anything less betrays weakness—or as W. B. Yeats put it more dramatically, that civilization itself is at stake when “[t]he […]

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