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My Bajan grandfather was a carpenter. He worked on the Panama Canal Zone where there were gold and silver payrolls (white employees were paid with a gold standard, blacks with a silver), gold and silver...
A recent article in The New Yorker pointedly asked what the humanities should do in a crisis[i]. Similarly, in our own humanities group we have had many conversations of late about the meaning of what...
In A Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism, David Ricci argues that the rise of populism in the twenty-first century is a product of growing resentment caused by mass economic and creative...
On July 9, 2011, it was announced with great fanfare that South Sudan had become the world’s newest nation state. As new countries are wont to do, that very day President Salva Kiir promulgated a new...
Lasers...'a solution looking for a problem'? Gregory J. Gbur author of Mathematical Methods for Optical Physics and Engineering, 2011 debunks this early misconception with a clear explanation of what a laser is, and exactly how it works!
The Mughals of India – eponym of grandeur, source of the word ‘mogol’ – what kinds of records did they keep, and where did they keep them? For decades, this question has plagued historians of...
• How can we analyze the interaction of a social movement with the state, allies and antagonists without reducing the process only to its public and contentious dimensions? • How can we put...
From Einstein to Maiman and beyond. Gregory J. Gbur author of Mathematical Methods for Optical Physics and Engineering, 2011 introduces the major personalities involved in the conception and development of the laser.
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....
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.
(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...
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...
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