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Curbing Climate Change: Why it’s so hard to act in time

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...

Timothy H. Dixon | 18 Aug 2017

The Lives of the Philosophers – Why They Matter

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...

Daniel Blue | 16 Aug 2017

Was Teddy Roosevelt a Good Public Speaker?

President Theodore Roosevelt once overcame a speech impediment. Jeremy C. Young explores his journey as a public speaker.

Jeremy C. Young | 10 Aug 2017

Q&A with Panos Y. Papalambros

Panos Y. Papalambros, co-author of Principles of Optimal Design: Modelling and Computation, tells us more about the recent 3rd edition.

8 Aug 2017

How Big Pharma is Hindering Treatment of the Opioid Addiction Epidemic

“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...

Robin Feldman | 8 Aug 2017

Synchronization and My Career

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...

7 Aug 2017

Science and Religion – the View Both Ways

“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...

Denis Alexander | 20 Jul 2017

Reading Jane Austen

I’ve been reading Austen since childhood, and I am only half joking when I say that if you put me under light hypnosis, I could probably recite Pride and Prejudice word for word in its entirety. Between...

Jenny Davidson | 13 Jul 2017

White House in turmoil shows why Trump’s no CEO

Originally posted on The Conversation, Bert Spector, author of Discourse on Leadership, explains how recent White House turmoil relates to leadership theory

Bert A. Spector | 13 Jul 2017

Team Meetings or Ritualized Events? How (Not) to Build Effective Leadership Teams

Originally posted on Leaders at Work In the first few minutes of President Donald Trump’s inaugural cabinet meeting, the President seemingly encouraged all participants to, one by one, offer their allegiance,...

Bert A. Spector | 10 Jul 2017

Disenfranchisement: A Historical Tool of Racial Exclusion

Racial inequality is alive and well in America, and conservatives are strategically dismantling one of the greatest tools in the arsenal against persistent injustices: the vote. The expansion and contraction...

Andrea Flynn | 6 Jul 2017

A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family 1600 – 2000

It was in the 1970s, in the course of some local history research in the London Borough of Camden, that I discovered quite by chance a grave in the old churchyard of St-John-at-Hampstead, in which Jane...

Deirdre LeFaye | 6 Jul 2017