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Workplace Harassment and The Supreme Court

Joseph A. Seiner, author of The Supreme Court's New Workplace, on the procedural rulings of the highest in the land and how it affects workplace harassment claims in the US.

Joseph A. Seiner | 25 Jan 2018

I Never Thought It Would Happen So Fast

Erik G. Larsson is Professor at Linköping University in Sweden. He is co-author of 120 journal papers and a Cambridge University Press textbook on Space-Time Block Coding, and co-inventor of 15 granted patents. Here he talks about his new co-authored book, The Fundamentals of Massive MIMO.

Erik G. Larsson | 24 Jan 2018

Celebrity Hemingway Interview Series: Brandon Barash of Timeless

"Once I found his darkness, I became illuminated by his light." Brandon Barash of TIMELESS talks about playing Ernest Hemingway on primetime television.

Diana Rissetto | 22 Jan 2018

Congratulations to actor LEV HARVEY, the winner of our 2018 Search for the Best Interpreter of a Letter of Ernest Hemingway!

Last year, we sent out a call to the public to send us their most creative interpretations of one of the letters of Ernest Hemingway in our newly published edition. The response was overwhelming, and we...

16 Jan 2018

Q&A with author Vincent De Sapio

What motivated you to write Advanced Analytical Dynamics? When I took dynamics courses in my mechanical engineering curriculum I found that while there were a lot of excellent textbooks out there, there...

12 Jan 2018

The Magnetic Fields of Uranus and Neptune

William Nellis author of Ultracondensed Matter by Dynamic Compression, 2017, discusses how the discoveries of NASA's Voyager Mission changed what we thought we knew about the magnetic fields of gas giants Neptune and Uranus.

William J. Nellis | 11 Jan 2018

What economic role should the state promote in a market economy?

Vito Tanzi, renowned economist and author of Termites of the State, discusses the industrialized world's economic development during the 20th century to today...

Vito Tanzi | 14 Dec 2017

100 Years Ago, the world of galaxies in the making

For most of us, 1917 reminds us a year in the terrible World War I. While European scientists were on the battlefront, in America, their colleagues away from the frontlines were pursuing their research....

8 Dec 2017

Can Women Transform the Economies of the Middle East and North Africa?

Amid widespread and often heated contemporary debates about an existential ‘clash’ between the ‘Islamic World’ and the ‘Christian West’, there is growing evidence that Arabic-Muslim women are...

Nick Forster | 7 Dec 2017

Let the Companion to Dracula In

In this blog post Roger Luckhurst, editor of The Cambridge Companion to 'Dracula', explores the various adaptations and critical reception of Bram Stoker's famous Gothic novel 'Dracula'

Roger Luckhurst | 6 Dec 2017

The Optimistic Freud? Thoughts on Life and Death

Winning essay written by Michael Poirier… Civilization and Its Discontents represents a continuation of Freud’s work in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, wherein he posited the existence of a death...

5 Dec 2017

Computational phylogenetics for algorithms designers

Phylogenetic trees and multiple sequence alignments are used in many biological analyses, including protein structure and function prediction, microbiome analysis, and the inference of human migrations. Yet, constructing these trees and alignments turns out to be much more difficult than expected on large datasets. Tandy Warnow explores these difficulties and how algorithm designers can best develop new methods to address these issues.

Tandy Warnow | 28 Nov 2017