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Breaking Glad: Positive Thinking and the President in the Time of COVID-19

What do Oprah Winfrey, Anne of Green Gables, Norman Vincent Peale, and United States President Donald Trump have in common? These individuals, real and fictional, embrace a nineteenth-century new...

Anne Stiles | 17 Dec 2020

How Framing Effects Can Be Your Friend

It’s a robust finding that people react differently to meat depending on how it is labeled. In well-known experiments subjects rated ground beef that was 25% lean as both higher quality and significantly...

José Luis Bermúdez | 14 Dec 2020

Christianity Matters in American Law and Jurisprudence

Since the first English settlements in North America, Christianity and its sacred text have had a significant influence on American jurisprudence. This reflects Christianity’s imprint on Western legal...

Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall | 14 Dec 2020

Surgical Training Requires Relentless, Forward, Progress

“to study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all” Sir William Osler, 1849-1919 It...

Mazyar Kanani, Simon Lammy | 10 Dec 2020

Information Theoretic Perspectives on 5G Systems and Beyond

The editors of Information Theoretic Perspectives on 5G Systems and Beyond discuss their new book which provides a detailed overview of the state-of-art approaches that led to realization of 5G.

Ivana Maric, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz), Osvaldo Simeone | 10 Dec 2020

The Nature of Polities in the Developing World

When faced with phenomena that we find difficult to understand, we often turn to the past. Our understanding of the latter enables us to frame and dissect the events unfolding before us. I am a political...

Robert H. Bates | 4 Dec 2020

Tragedy, Art of Dissent

Think of the lies. Climate change is a hoax. Colonization benefits the colonized. Rape is your fault. Grief is your fault. Mortality is your fault. Tragedy exposes these lies. I argue in my book...

Manya Lempert | 2 Dec 2020

A Crisis of Confidence or Rebirth of Conviction? Transhumanists and their critics in the Age of a Global Pandemic

As Covid 19 has swept the globe, leaving over a million causalities in its wake, it has generated a profound crisis of confidence. Citizens throughout the world question their governments’ abilities...

Jennifer Huberman | 1 Dec 2020

Humanitarianism or Immigration Control – or Both?

The last decade has witnessed an unprecedented battle between values and pragmatism, and between humanitarianism and immigration control in large parts of the world. Asylum as an institution has always...

Liv Feijen | 1 Dec 2020

Nerve and Muscle: the final common pathway to action

“The roads that lead man to knowledge are as wondrous as that knowledge itself.” ― Arthur Koestler (1959). The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe. London:...

Christopher L.-H. Huang | 27 Nov 2020

Wounded Healers as Agents of Change

Who could have predicted so many “unprecedented” catastrophes would descend upon us in just one year? On top of the seemingly never-ending wars and recurrent natural disasters, we have been ambushed...

Keh-Ming Lin | 26 Nov 2020

Can Feeling Good Make People Morally Good?

The rise of COVID has exacerbated a recent sense of global crisis, with economic, political, and environmental aspects. Individuals experience such pressures as personal challenges to well-being. These...

Liz Jackson | 26 Nov 2020