Very few issues win bipartisan support in today’s political climate. But child sex trafficking is one. Earlier this year, Congress passed two laws that allow states to criminally prosecute internet service...
On June 2, 2018, the optics world lost one of its great scientists, as Emil Wolf passed away at the age of 95. He left as his legacy not only an incredible body of work, including over 300 papers and classic...
In Indonesia, 20 May is National Awakening Day (Hari Kebangkitan Nasional). It commemorates the founding of the first nationalist association in the Dutch East Indies. On this day in 1908, retired physician...
Like so much else in life, this collection began by accident. I had been working for some years on a book about terrorism and unspeakability (now forthcoming from Routledge) when I had a conversation with...
Author of Depression and the Self, Tamara Kayali Browne, discusses whether we can really feel like 'ourselves' while taking anti-depressants.
Ahead of the ten year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy that helped kickstart a global financial crisis, The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster author Laurence M. Ball joins Cambridge University Press Senior Marketing Executive Ellena Moriarty to discuss the mistakes made that allowed it to happen and what we've learned in the ensuing decade.
What is Perusall and why should teachers be excited about using it? Perusall is a social reading platform to help students get prepared for class. What that means is that in Perusall, class reading...
Why study animals and literature now? Animal narratives appear around the globe from time immemorial: in our earliest creation myths and the texts that underpin the world’s major religions, in literature...
Prisoners in 17 states and several Canadian provinces are on strike in protest of prison labor conditions. Their demonstrations are compelling Americans to understand that some everyday foods are produced...
Dr. Kees van Heeringen, author of The Neuroscience of Suicidal Behavior, discusses the enigma of suicide.
Andromeda Galaxy M31 Credit Michael Covington This picture of the Andromeda Galaxy is not from a major observatory. It is not even an exceptional example of amateur work. It is a routine picture taken...
To explore the issues surrounding energy flow and consumption in the modern day, you must first understand the basic science of energy. Washington Taylor and Robert L. Jaffe are Professors of Physics at MIT, and have written a textbook on the topic.