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Tides: modern twists on an ancient topic

In the mid 17th century, Varenius, the founder of modern geography, wrote that of all the natural phenomena, none had perplexed scientists more than the tides: the connection to the Moon was as empirically...

Theo Gerkema | 10 Jul 2019

The Dilemma of Migrant Rights

Controversies surrounding the treatment of vulnerable migrants top the news almost daily. Cambridge Author, Moritz Baumgärtel, explores more below.

Moritz Baumgärtel | 9 Jul 2019

Communicating climate change effectively and creatively

Lately, climate change has been unmistakably present in the public sphere…Yet, conversations about climate change have remained stuck. Lately, climate change has been unmistakably present in the...

Maxwell T. Boykoff | 4 Jul 2019

Why Does Counting Civilian Casualties Matter?

In May, the U.S. Department of Defense released a report—its most thorough yet—purporting to account for all the civilian casualties of U.S. military activities in 2018: 120 deaths and 65 injuries...

Rosemary Kellison | 2 Jul 2019

How digitization impacts the creative economy

In the ten years since I wrote the first edition of A Textbook of Cultural Economics, the cultural sector – the arts, heritage and cultural industries, jointly known as the creative industries – has...

Ruth Towse | 1 Jul 2019

Standing Up to Investor Misconduct

Adjudicative bodies applying international law usually operate in blissful obscurity.  Although their decisions are of global significance because they, for example, define state territorial boundaries,...

Martin Andrew Jarrett | 25 Jun 2019

Concepts on the chopping block, Word Trade, and Rock-star Linguists…

English speakers are always in the driver’s seat. They use phrases like I am bored, I am cold, I feel like doing something, I like something or someone, etc. In contrast, the Slavs (Russians, Poles,...

Danko Šipka | 25 Jun 2019

The Nile’s Journey Through Time

When Herodotus visited Egypt in the fifth millennium BC, he noted how Egypt was the gift of the Nile, since the fertile black muds that arrived with the annual flood were the foundation of Egyptian agriculture....

Judith Bunbury | 24 Jun 2019

What is it like to record your own audiobook?

Author Mike Berners-Lee gives us an insight into what it’s like to record an audiobook version of his book “There Is No Planet B“ “ When I write, I am thinking of myself talking, which...

Mike Berners-Lee | 15 Jun 2019

The Holocaust and New World Slavery

It is almost inevitable that conversations regarding the Holocaust will generate questions of comparison to other historical instances of mass death. And, conversely, it is almost unavoidable when discussing...

Steven T. Katz | 14 Jun 2019

Q&A with authors of ‘Cybernetic Modeling for Bioreaction Engineering’

From Doraiswami Ramkrishna and Hyun-Seob Song, authors of 'Cybernetic Modeling for Bioreaction Engineering'

Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Hyun-Seob Song | 14 Jun 2019

Is Religion-State Separation Possible in Islam?

In both academia and the media, a well-known perception is that Christianity essentially embraces religion-state separation whereas Islam essentially rejects it. Defenders of this perception provide some...

Ahmet T. Kuru | 13 Jun 2019