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The Afghanistan Investigation and the International Legal Order

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has the dubious honor of being among the most visible focal points for conflicted U.S. attitudes toward the international legal order. Tensions between the U.S....

Malcolm Jorgensen | 27 Apr 2020

The Diamond Jubilee of the Ruby Laser: 60th anniversary of the laser

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first laser Joseph Braat co-author of Imaging Optics, 2019 describes his personal experiences in applied physics research dealing with lasers as special light sources and the enormous and unexpected impact of Maiman's discovery.

Joseph Braat | 23 Apr 2020

Why You Should Share ‘The Body Image Book for Girls’ With Your Daughter

(Or granddaughter, sister, patient, client, student or friend) The Body Image Book for Girls is out September 10th, 2020. Read more about the book here! Conventional wisdom suggests that parents...

Charlotte Markey | 23 Apr 2020

COVID-19 and Earth Day 2020 – Strange Bedfellows!

I had been so looking forward to attending the Fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day celebration at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies in the University of Wisconsin, Madison. It was set to...

Debra Benson | 22 Apr 2020

Animal Suffering, Darwinian Evolution, and the Goodness of the Christian God

Did the God of theism—omnipotent, wholly wise, and perfectly good—use Darwinian evolution to create species? Many contemporary thinkers see this “evolutionary theism” as wildly implausible. Why?...

John R. Schneider | 21 Apr 2020

COVID-19 Mobile Phone Contact Tracing and Information Privacy Law as Modulated Power (Part 2)

Part 1 outlines the rapid worldwide use of mobile phone location data for contact tracing purposes. Part 2 concludes by examining how information privacy law protections apply now and how they should...

Mark Burdon | 21 Apr 2020

Cyberattacks against Hospitals during a Pandemic and the Case for an Emergency Regime for Cyberspace

It’s a scenario that’s been on the very top of every cybersecurity official’s list of nightmares for a good while now: a cyberattack targeting critical IT infrastructures of a hospital, bringing...

Henning Lahmann | 20 Apr 2020

Earth Day – Then and Now

Growing up on what is truly one of the most beautiful college campuses, Michigan State University, I was a pre-teen when the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970. Most memorable was watching the CBS...

Debra Benson | 20 Apr 2020

Wind Turbines: Insights and Anecdotes

On 8 November 1977, President Jimmy Carter made a televised address to the US nation on the subject of energy. There was a crisis. Geopolitical tensions had resulted in an embargo on oil exports...

17 Apr 2020

Private School Choice: How to Win Big

Imagine you’re a policymaker who wants to expand parental choice of private education. You’re not alone: sixty school voucher programs operate across the United States, offering hundreds of thousands...

Ursula Hackett | 17 Apr 2020

Twenty-Five Years After

Blogging about anything in the context of a global pandemic seems rather hopeless. It doesn’t help that I have chosen to blog on a book published (in its final edition) twenty-five years ago. Why on...

Bryan Cheyette | 17 Apr 2020

COVID-19 Mobile Phone Contact Tracing and Information Privacy Law as Modulated Power

Should we forgo information privacy law protections for COVID-19 mobile phone contact tracing? Governments worldwide view contact tracing as a key tool to mitigate COVID-19 community transmission. Contact...

Mark Burdon | 17 Apr 2020