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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

The life changing magic of (LGBT+) stories – Charlie Rose Crimston, Michael Thai, and Fiona Kate Barlow

In support of Pride Month chapter authors and editor of The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice discuss the [lack of] presence of LGBT+ characters in film, television and games.

Michael Thai, Charlie Crimston, Fiona Barlow | 13 Jun 2019

Mental Health Providers’ Duty During the Measles Outbreak

The current outbreak of measles across the United Kingdom, United States, and other industrialized nations has given rise to bitter conflict about vaccinations. Mental health providers may not intuitively...

Kristin H. Kroll | 8 Jun 2019

Nuclear Weapons: Still a Threat to Public Health, and Growing

Lead editor and an author of 'Preventing War and Promoting Peace', William H. Wiist, outlines his argument on why nuclear weapons are a growing threat to public health and suggests roles for health professionals in advocating reduction of nuclear weapons.

William H. Wiist | 7 Jun 2019