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Is ownership of property obsolete? And what will our world look like without ownership? Consumers are gradually losing interest in owning personal property. Marie Kondo, an organizing guru turned into...
Great children’s stories embody the spirit of nations. How else would they become classics? Kornei Chukovsky’s Krokodil, Soviet Russia’s first children’s story, appeared when Russian culture was...
On November 11, 2019, observers will be able to see a rare sight: a transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun. Mercury transits are visible only about 13 times per century. Todd Timberlake, co-author of Finding our Place in the Solar System discusses the history of this rare sight.
In 1945 Britain was a Christian nation, governed by many theocratic laws that determined much of moral behaviour. By 1980 it wasn’t. The existing explanations for the reform of UK moral law are rather...
Open access (OA) – the idea that digital copies of peer-reviewed research should be available to readers without them having to pay, while also giving readers greater re-use rights – is not going...
What does the term ‘Restoration poetry’ bring to mind? The earl of Rochester’s scurrilous lyrics? Political satire, such as Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis, Absalom and Achitophel, or The Hind and the...
Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media and society. There is a rising danger of ‘food wars’ – conflicts over food, land and water – as the world...
In parallel with an increase in the development and implementation of local and national suicide prevention actions, rates of suicide unfortunately increase in many parts of the world, including the USA....
The book accumulates more than a 40-year experience of the authors’ research in the field of chemical non-equilibrium effects in combustion and reactive flows and includes our theoretical...
Back in early May of this year, several news outlets in the United States reported that the Trump administration was in the process of pardoning several US service personnel accused and convicted of war crimes. Bryan Peeler investigates from a Humanitarian Law angle.
An essential component in the helix travelling-wave tubes (TWTs) used, among other things, for satellite communications and electronic counter-measures, is the helix slow-wave structure. This structure...
Understanding turbulence is an important and challenging problem with a million dollar prize money on it. We illustrate the complexity of a turbulent flow using an example. Consider coffee being mixed...
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