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Forest Preservation in a Changing Climate

Since 2007, global efforts to fight climate change have included measures intended to reducing carbon emissions from deforestation, forest degradation, and support the sustainable conservation of forest...

Sébastien Jodoin | 5 Nov 2017

Thereza Story-Maskelyne 1834–1926

Marie Curie at 150 – Celebrating Women in STEM The enigmatic female figure on the cover of Darwin and Women, pointing a telescope at a murky sea, is Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn, the daughter of the...

Samantha Evans | 4 Nov 2017

Pictures of her

Marie Curie at 150 – Celebrating Women in STEM “Am I a logician? A writer? A mother? A woman?” While finding my way to the Centre for the History of Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona,...

Marta García-Matos | 3 Nov 2017

How Marie Curie Taught Me to Persevere

Marie Curie at 150 – Celebrating Women in STEM. I am a devoted scientist, a professor in STEM, particularly in biomedicine, and I also juggle my private life in parallel with my scientific career....

Caterina A. M. La Porta | 3 Nov 2017

My history with Madame Curie

Bonnie J. Buratti author of Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar: A Guided Tour of the Solar System is a Senior Research Scientist and Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Here Bonnie Buratti recounts her personal history with the legacy of the 2 time Nobel winner.

Bonnie J. Buratti | 2 Nov 2017

Shakespeare for Freedom Interview

This interview with Kiernan Ryan and Ewan Fernie, author of Shakespeare for Freedom, was recorded at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust on 10th May 2017.

Ewan Fernie | 1 Nov 2017

Marie Curie at 150: ‘Natural Radioactivity’

November 7th 2017 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867 – 1934), the only woman to ever be awarded two Nobel prizes. Here we reproduce Chapter 4 from Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics, 2006 Marie Curie (1867 – 1934)’ by author Abraham Pais.

1 Nov 2017

Unveiling Galaxies

Jean-René Roy author of Unveiling Galaxies discusses the importance of images in astronomical discovery and understanding.

30 Oct 2017

Extracting Meaning from Sound — Computer Scientists and Hearing Scientists Come Together Right Now

Machines that listen to us, hear us, and act on what they hear are becoming common in our homes.. So far, however, they are only interested in what we say, not how we say it, where we say it, or what other sounds they hear. Richard Lyon describes where we go from here.

Richard Lyon | 26 Oct 2017

‘He rarely spoke of what he went through.’ Author Clare Makepeace reveals how her grandfather inspired her new book, ‘Captives of War’

In her new book, Captives of War, published this week, Clare Makepeace uses war-time diaries, letters and logbooks written by British POWs in the Second World War to throw fresh light on their experiences in captivity. In this exclusive article for fifteeneightyfour, Clare tells how her grandfather's reluctance to talk about his own experiences as a POW in Poland during World War Two inspired her to write the book.

Clare Makepeace | 26 Oct 2017

How to Cure Too-Big-To-Fail

The Dodd-Frank Act’s worthy objectives were to improve the safety, resilience, efficiency, and transparency of our financial system. Yet it has drastically diminished the credit available to low-income...

Sanjai Bhagat | 25 Oct 2017

Terrorism Is Evolving, Not Being Defeated

Philip Seib, author of As Terrorism Evolves, explains how extremism has altered since the war on terror began.

Philip Seib | 20 Oct 2017