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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...
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...
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...
On 16 May 1960, Ted Maiman used silver coated mirrors, a ruby crystal and a photo flash gun to create the first working laser... Brian Culshaw, author of Introducing Photonics, 2020, explains what makes a laser so useful and introduces a number of the laser's vast applications.
A sustainable food revolution holds the key to ending the Sixth Extinction that is wiping out the world’s wild animals and plants. “Such is the insatiable power of the human jawbone that rethinking...
In January 1983, two junior members of Congress, John E. Porter – a moderate Republican from Illinois – and Tom Lantos – a liberal Democrat from California – launched a new forum dedicated to...
It was fifty years ago, on 10 April 1970, that Paul McCartney announced the break-up of the Beatles. That the end of the Beatles came so soon after the end of the 1960s helped to cement the association...
Novel artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are being introduced at an accelerating pace and they can, generally, be helpful tools for individuals. However, there has been little consideration as to...
On November 21 the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen delivered a keynote address on the occasion of being honored with the International Leadership Award from the Anti-Defamation League, an organization...
How we understand and respond to failure is one of the most defining features of how our lives pan out. Some people refuse to fail. Some people expect to fail. Some people always hide from their own failings...
Alexandru Grigorescu, author of 'The Ebb and Flow of Global Governance', on the international response to public health crises
Has patent harmonization come to a standstill? Just days ago, Britain reversed its decision to participate in the European Union’s new Unified Patent Court. Why did it happen? And what does this...
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