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When was the last time you had a family dinner? And when was the last time you sent a message in a family group chat? For many of us, the answer to the second question is probably much more recently. Family...
Humans occupy a peculiar place in the natural world. Coalitionary lethal attacks against members of other groups have been documented in only a relatively small number of species, including certain social...
Imagine you are facing a weighty choice: should I follow my passion and study philosophy, despite financial insecurity and uncertain career prospects? Should I have children and give up some of the personal...
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...
In June on this blog, I wrapped up my post by asking which of the five CERIC elements we use to analyze scientific articles feels the toughest. The questions we use focus on the Claim (as in, the new...
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...
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...
One of the most striking principles to come out of the natural sciences is that our universe appears to be governed by just handful of relatively simple principles. The newly published book `Spontaneous...
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...
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...
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...
In the recent Christopher Nolan film “The Odyssey” we see a curious depiction of Circe transforming Odysseus’ crew of sailors into pigs. The cinematic representation drips with Circe’s disdain...
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