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...
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...
‘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...
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:...
Merim Bilalić author of The Neuroscience of Expertise analyses the up and coming richest boxing match in history and predicts the outcome using neuroscience theory.
This summer I worked on the Greenland ice sheet, part of a scientific experiment to study surface melting and its contribution to Greenland’s accelerating ice losses. By virtue of its size, elevation...
The Lives of the Philosophers, a series published by Cambridge University Press, shows why biography is important and what it can tell us about the work of its various subjects. Sensitively charting the...
President Theodore Roosevelt once overcame a speech impediment. Jeremy C. Young explores his journey as a public speaker.
Panos Y. Papalambros, co-author of Principles of Optimal Design: Modelling and Computation, tells us more about the recent 3rd edition.
“A crippling problem.” “A total epidemic.” “A problem like nobody understands.” These are the words President Trump used to describe the opioid epidemic ravaging the country during a White...
Recently, my book entitled “Synchronization in Digital Communication Systems” was published by Cambridge University Press. As I mentioned in its preface, my fellow engineers and I have spent a lot...
“This is a ‘both-and’ book. Those who prefer confrontational ‘either-or’ discourse should look elsewhere”. This is how I conclude the Introduction of my recently published CUP book Genes, Determinism...