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International Economic Relations Need New Rules and Emerging Countries Have Some Answers

Dismay over the current state of international economic relations has some policymakers longing for return to some imaginary notion of the good old days. But this is a time to look forward, not back....

Sonia E. Rolland, David M. Trubek | 5 May 2021

Control your knowledge of feedback control

Feedback dynamics is a topic that many engineers feel they should know. Feedback loops appear everywhere in engineering and science, and a command of feedback greatly increases one’s ability to design...

Joel L. Dawson | 5 May 2021

A history of duct acoustics

How is sound generated and transmitted in ducts? This question is studied in duct acoustics, a branch of acoustics. Why do we study duct acoustics? I hope that this post will complement my recent book...

Erkan Dokumacı | 5 May 2021

A Forgotten Colossus: Recovering the Legacies of the Most Cross-Culturally Significant Sculptural Monument of the Medieval Mediterranean

Recent controversies remind us that popular perceptions can be as crucial as plinths and pedestals for propping up monuments. A perfect storm of controversy in 2016, and again in 2020, led to the dismantling,...

Elena N. Boeck | 5 May 2021

When does information become an essential facility?

Can a digital platform like Google Search, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or Uber become an essential facility, a sort of information infrastructure? Digital platforms of various kinds are becoming indispensable...

Simon Brinsmead | 3 May 2021

STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST ASIAN AMERICANS

In response to escalating xenophobia and bigotry against Asian Americans at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center was formed on March 19, 2020 to track and respond to...

30 Apr 2021

Why might ethnicity affect outcomes in postgraduate medical exams?

This month, our book “The Maudsley Trainee Guide to the CASC: Preparing for the MRCPsych CASC Examination” will be published after years of tireless labour. We were driven to create this preparatory...

Christopher Travers, Samantha Perera, Dan Cleall | 30 Apr 2021

Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century

Back in the 1700s, the first performance of an actor in the patent theatres would often be under some anonymous title like ‘A Gentleman (who never appear’d on any stage)’. Sometimes, actors even...

James Harriman-Smith | 30 Apr 2021

Why Write a Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music?

Though computers have been used to make music since the 1950s, the modern tradition of video game music dates from the 1970s. Game music proper begins with arcade games like Gun Fight (1975), which features...

Tim Summers, Melanie Fritsch | 30 Apr 2021

What is Gravity?

Kirill Krasnov author of “Formulations of General Relativity” asks the question ‘What is Gravity?’

Kirill Krasnov | 29 Apr 2021

Fine-Tuning in the Physical Universe

We only have one universe; could features of it be unusual, or surprising? Questions of fine-tuning ask this about our most fundamental theories. On the face of it, the existence of life, complexity,...

Michael Townsen Hicks, Roger Davies, Rafael Alves Batista, David Sloan | 29 Apr 2021

‘publick Pleasures and Divertisements’: Aphra Behn’s Late Plays

The five plays in Volume IV of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn date from the final years of Behn’s professional career. Three of the plays were performed during her lifetime: The City-Heiress...

Dr. Mel Evans, Dr. Claire Bowditch, Professor Elaine Hobby, Professor Gillian Wright | 24 Apr 2021