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Celebrating the Illustrative Career of Jay Belsky in Evolutionary Developmental Psychology

To call Jay Belsky a pioneer or trailblazer would be a gross understatement.  He was an evolutionary psychologist before there was evolutionary psychology, and he was an evolutionary developmental...

Satoshi Kanazawa | 15 Jul 2025

From “Eating Bitterness” to “Lying Flat”: China’s New Generation of Migrant Workers

The rise of the gig economy and precarious labor has caught both academic and media attention. What happens to the largest workforce in the world? The over 200-million rural-to-urban migrant workers have...

Xiaoshuo Hou | 15 Jul 2025

Borders and long-term change in international order

Today the international order appears to be falling apart. War in Eastern Europe is continuing to escalate, militarism is on the rise in Western Europe, and the USA seems to be increasingly disinterested...

Kerry Goettlich | 11 Jul 2025

Mapping the World: How Cartography Shaped Global Science

In 1785, King Louis XVI of France commissioned Jean François de Galoup, comte de Lapérouse, to explore the Pacific Ocean, seeking to bolster French scientific prestige and imperial ambitions. The Académie...

Florin-Stefan Morar | 10 Jul 2025

Introducing A first course in Magnetohydrodynamics

Summary: A First Course in Magnetohydrodynamics offers a much-needed resource for undergraduate physics education.  Despite the fact that magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) can be used to describe more than...

David Alan Clarke | 8 Jul 2025

Handbook of Compassion in Healthcare: A Practical Approach

We are medical doctors, psychiatrists, working in a world of infinite need, finite resources, and – increasingly – ‘evidence-based medicine’. We are trained to ask questions such as: What is the...

Caragh Behan, Brendan Kelly | 7 Jul 2025

Plan? What plan?

Sometimes plans work best when they don’t really bear the hallmarks of a plan. Less design and more muddling through can achieve unforeseen good. This might be said for a well-known, but less well-understood,...

David Lowe | 2 Jul 2025

Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change

Exiting from international organizations (IOs) seems to be the strategy du jour in international relations. This is underscored by recent high-profile events: the implementation of Brexit in 2020, Russia’s...

Felicity Vabulas, Inken von Borzyskowski | 1 Jul 2025

How Literary Genius Changed the Meaning of Nature and Created an Environmental Movement

Why do people so often approach nature with the same kinds of rapt aesthetic and spiritual attention that they bring to works of art?  Why do they seek in nature both their most unique (or “true”)...

Scott Hess | 30 Jun 2025

What Economists Can (and Should) Learn from Disability Justice Activists

In 2016, the Harriet Tubman Collective—a group of Black disabled activists and community organizers—released a statement titled “Disability Solidarity: Completing the Vision for Black Lives.”...

Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Adam Hollowell | 30 Jun 2025

The Guitar in Victorian England

During the nineteenth century Western art music advanced towards a peak of sonorous magnificence, perhaps reached in 1848 at Paris when Hector Berlioz conducted an ensemble of 1,022 performers. The guitar,...

Christopher Page | 25 Jun 2025

Naples: Capital of Culture and Dance

The mythical siren song of Naples, which drew travelers to the shores, manifested itself centuries later in the reality of the Grand Tour. Generations came, lured by the urban expanse and broad culture...

Anthony R. DelDonna | 25 Jun 2025