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How Would Ernie Say It? Send Us Your Best Hemingway Interpretations

We want to hear/see your most creative interpretations of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway.

11 Oct 2017

Mental Health Stigma and the Loss of Human Potential

Cambridge author Philip Yanos discusses World Mental Health Day and why raising awareness and encouraging people with mental health issues to seek help ultimately has little impact on stigma.

Philip Yanos | 10 Oct 2017

“Merkel has done more to modernize gender roles in united Germany than all of her predecessors” says author Joyce Marie Mushaben

Germany votes this weekend in the last in a series of elections in key Western countries. The polls are predicting a win for Angela Merkel, who is trying to secure a historic fourth term as chancellor. In an exclusive extract from her new book, Becoming Madam Chancellor: Angela Merkel and the Berlin Republic, Joyce Marie Mushaben explains why she wrote the book and she looks back at the personal and political factors that have contributed to Chancellor Merkel's hard-earned status as ‘the world's most powerful woman.’

Joyce Marie Mushaben | 21 Sep 2017

Watching Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War: A Historians’ View

Le Duan toasting with Mao Burns’ new documentary series has much merit. Most commendable from my perspective as a historian of the Vietnamese communist experience is the inclusion of references to Le...

Pierre Asselin | 20 Sep 2017

Fundamental vs Phenomenological: Bridging the divide in modern physics

Horatiu Nastase, author of String Theory Methods for Condensed Matter Physics, describes the differences between reductionist and emergent approaches to modern physics and presents the duality approach to help solve uncalculable problems in strong nuclear forces, fluids and condensed matter. Is this approach the bridge between fundamental and phenomenological physics?

Horatiu Nastase | 19 Sep 2017

Trivial and Ineffective? Cooking the turkey with dimensional analysis

Notes on Dimensional Analysis Dimensional analysis has the dubious reputation of being both utterly trivial and, at the same time, ineffective.  Although both claims are understandable neither is well...

Don S. Lemons | 12 Sep 2017

The ‘Internet of Things’ is Sending Us Back to the Middle Ages

Internet-enabled devices are so common, and so vulnerable, that hackers recently broke into a casino through its fish tank. The tank had internet-connected sensors measuring its temperature and cleanliness....

Joshua A. T. Fairfield | 6 Sep 2017

The Great American Eclipse

The Great American Eclipse of August 21, 2017 NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) both place great emphasis on public engagement, giving back to the taxpayers who support space exploration. When NASA...

Bonnie J. Buratti | 5 Sep 2017

To use, or not to use, ANOVA?

What do you do when faced with analyzing student ratings from 1 to 5 for 3 instructors in 3 classes? Aside from questioning the validity of students assessing instructor capability other than for the income...

Trent Lalonde, Jamie Riggs | 1 Sep 2017

“Unveiling the North Korean Economy” Unveils the Solution for the North Korean Crisis

With all eyes turned towards North Korea, many are wondering if there is a solution that can prevent a potentially devastating war in the Korean peninsula and a way to achieve North Korea’s nuclear disarmament...

Byung-Yeon Kim | 23 Aug 2017

The psychosis of childbearing

‘Puerperal psychosis’   Psychosis after childbirth was first mentioned by Hippocrates, who reported delirium complicating puerperal sepsis in 8/17 case histories in women (covering the whole of...

Ian Brockington | 23 Aug 2017

Beckett’s Political Imagination

This book was a long time in the making – the research and writing took about ten years – and the ideas that gave rise to it go back even further, to the first time I read Beckett (nothing glamorous:...

Emilie Morin | 22 Aug 2017