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An interview with Kostas Kampourakis author of Understanding Evolution

Why is evolution so difficult to understand? Uncover the common misconceptions and core concepts in this concise and accessible book. www.cambridge.org/understandingevolution

13 Jul 2020

A Hygienic City-Nation

As a global pandemic rages through the world suspending everyday life, it is worth looking back in time to analyse how perceptions of disease, hygiene, self-improvement, and city planning manifested historically...

Nabaparna Ghosh | 13 Jul 2020

Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics

In late 2019 an outbreak of COVID-19 was detected in the city of Wuhan, China. Within weeks, the virus had spread across the country, becoming an epidemic. The disease spread rapidly across the globe...

Karen Stollznow | 13 Jul 2020

Mars: The nearest part of the biological universe?

Author of The Biological Universe, Wallace Arthur, discusses what we can expect from the NASA Mars 2020 mission. The launch date is correct at time of publication.

Wallace Arthur | 9 Jul 2020

Law as Source

The legal system is the bloodline for investigative journalism, yet proposed legal reforms may jeopardize it When Spotlight won the 2015 Oscar for Best Picture, it was billed as a movie about investigative...

Roy Shapira | 9 Jul 2020

Voices from South Vietnam

When I lived in Vietnam as a Fulbright scholar a few years ago, I met a restaurant owner named Nickie Tran. The food she served was some of the best I’d had in Ho Chi Minh City, so I kept going back,...

Heather Stur | 8 Jul 2020

Extending the confines of travel

In common with many other people, the months of near-lockdown find us reflecting on our previous experiences and work. As scholars working on literatures of mobility, this means thinking in particular...

Charles Forsdick, Tim Youngs | 7 Jul 2020

Strangling the Axis – Author Q and A

We asked author Richard Hammond the questions you wanted to know about his new book Strangling the Axis! Here are his answers: Was the @RoyalAirForce level of effort in the Mediterranean appropriate...

Richard Hammond | 6 Jul 2020

Interactional Rituals: Rites of aggression

Before venturing into a fully-fledged linguistic analysis of ritual behaviour during this time of social distancing, one issue worth discussing is the typological concept of ‘rites of aggression’....

Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House | 6 Jul 2020

In the Footsteps of Thoreau

Many people I know have been out walking more, since COVID-19 upended our routines and transformed our daily lives. For a while, during the first shutdown, the activity of walking was the only way in...

Alda Balthrop-Lewis | 3 Jul 2020

Opera in the time of cholera: Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and a pandemic

A corpse is lifted from the back of a wagon during the 1832 cholera epidemic. Coloured lithograph, c. 1832.

William Everett, Lynda Payne | 3 Jul 2020

An interview with Raul Rabadan, author of Understanding Coronavirus

Why is information about the coronavirus/COVID-19 so confusing? Grasp the key facts in this concise, accessible and authoritative book.

30 Jun 2020