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World Wildlife Day: Big Cats – Predators under threat

Bruce Rocheleau discusses what can be done to preserve big cats and other endangered species

Bruce Rocheleau | 3 Mar 2018

A Journey Through the Life of Friedrich Kellner, diarist of My Opposition: A German Against the Third Reich

  My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner – A German against the Third Reich     Read More ?

2 Mar 2018

Can democracy work in multiethnic, multilingual social movements?

Nicole Doerr, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, discusses her new book: Political Translation.

Nicole Doerr | 1 Mar 2018

Celebrity Hemingway Interview Series: Len Cariou of the Off-Broadway Play PAPA

“The character is so vivid, even now, in my mind.” Stage and screen legend Len Cariou looks back at playing Ernest Hemingway in PAPA.

Diana Rissetto | 1 Mar 2018

The Enduring Significance of Reichel

Dr. Samuel C. Durso reflects on his personal history with the groundbreaking Reichel's Care of the Ederly, now in its seventh edition.

Samuel C. Durso | 28 Feb 2018

Everything Points to Poisson

One recurring theme in our forthcoming book, Modelling Mortality with Actuarial Applications, is the all-pervading role of likelihoods that suggest the lurking presence of a Poisson distribution.  A popular...

Angus Macdonald | 27 Feb 2018

What makes an expert?

In days of 8-bit computers, one would sometimes encounter individuals who knew everything about a particular device or piece of software. Single programmers wrote entire applications or games, and some...

Ian Thompson | 26 Feb 2018

The (Microwave) View from the South Pole

All-sky map of the temperature fluctuations in the CMB, known as the temperature anisotropy, as measured by the Planck satellite. The color scale corresponds to characteristic temperature fluctuations...

22 Feb 2018

On the origin of products

In the first of a series of blog posts, Huub Ehlhardt, co-author of On the Origin of Products, asks: ‘Can product development be considered as an evolutionary process?'

Huub Ehlhardt, Arthur O. Eger | 21 Feb 2018

If You’re English, Vote for Brexit

That England (and Wales) voted Leave in the Brexit referendum of 2016, and that Scotland (and Northern Ireland) voted Remain is now a fact of political life. People resident in these different parts of...

David McCrone, Frank Bechhofer | 20 Feb 2018

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1929-1931

In this conversation between Linda Bree of Cambridge University Press and The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1929-1931 editor Sandra Spanier, the two discuss the fourth volume of the series, including letters on the censorship of A Farewell to Arms, how the author coped with his rise to fame, and more.

12 Feb 2018

An Introduction to Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe has witnessed a remarkable rise of nonviolent youth movements in the early 2000s. The Serbian youtsh movement Otpor mobilized thousands of young people against the incumbent government and...

Olena Nikolayenko | 6 Feb 2018