Originally posted on Sandyhershcovis.org Lately I’ve become interested in workplace ostracism as a form of workplace aggression. Most research lumps ostracism with other forms of mistreatment (incivility,...
The British campaign in Norway in 1940 was an ignominious and abject failure. It is perhaps best known as the fiasco which directly led to the fall of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his replacement by Winston Churchill. But what were the reasons for failure? In this exclusive article for fifteeneightyfour, Sir John Kiszely, who served in the British Army for forty years, rising to the rank of lieutenant general, explains his personal fascination with the campaign and what it can tell us about more recent wars.
Author Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb discusses her book, Partial Differential Equation Methods for Image Inpainting. How have automated PDEs changed the landscape of image ‘inpainting’? When Marcelo...
Paul Verkuil, author of Valuing Bureaucracy The Case for Professional Government (2017), on the recent Comey firing and the perils of running a government like a business.
On May 10, 1837, 180 years ago today, the banks of New York City did something extraordinary: they suspended specie payments. This phrase does not ring many bells for twenty-first-century ears, but in...
Todd Dufresne author of The Late Sigmund Freud continues his look at the Freud that has been ignored, avoided, forbidden, and whitewashed for decades.
Anna Marmodoro, author of Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity (2015), asks how did the world begin and where did evil evolve from?
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Measure and integration theory is an indispensable tool in mathematical analysis, probability theory, mathematical statistics and in many applications such as mathematical finance and actuarial studies....
Everyone who writes about programming languages seeks to impose order on the chaos of extant languages. A common strategy is to borrow Thomas Kuhn’s concept of a scientific paradigm, itself a not uncontroversial...
Let’s imagine, having read four sonnets published in the radical weekly, The Examiner, by young poet John Keats, seeing the announcement of John Keats’s first volume Poems (published 3 March 1817),...
Vǫluspá (The Seeress’s Prophecy) cycles through the memories and prognostications of an unnamed female prophetess who has witnessed the whole history of a legendary world, and culminates in a baleful...