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Empathy with Animals: The School of Animal Communication

Eugene Morton uses his favorite four-legged friend to explore whether or not animals can have empathy.

Eugene Morton | 23 Jan 2017

Announcing the winner of our ‘Shoot the Moon’ photo competition

So congratulations to Samuele Draghi from Milan whose photograph (below) impressed Nicolas the most. Samuelle wins £100 worth of Cambridge astronomy books. Nicolas said: “This image makes the best...

18 Jan 2017

30 years of LLE

Luigi Lugiato author of Nonlinear Optical Systems [with Franco Prati and Massimo Brambilla], 2015, discusses his equation which provides a paradigm for pattern formation in nonlinear optical systems

Luigi Lugiato | 17 Jan 2017

Colours and Communication

Daniel Kernell author of Colours and Colour Vision gives us an insight into normal vs. deviant colour vision.

Daniel Kernell | 16 Jan 2017

The Work and Lives of Teachers: A Global Perspective

What is the status of the teaching profession around the world? Do teachers in Europe, Asia and Africa see themselves as American teachers do? Are their rewards the same; their complaints the same?  And...

Rosetta Marantz Cohen | 9 Jan 2017

The Laws of Globalization Still Stand

The shock vote in the UK to leave the European Union took place just weeks before I completed final edits on my new book The Laws of Globalization and Business Applications.  And the month after it was...

Pankaj Ghemawat | 5 Jan 2017

IQ and Neuroscience

Are you saying intelligence test scores are the most important thing about a person? No. No person can be reduced meaningfully to a test score. I am saying that, like it or not, the differences among...

Richard Haier | 4 Jan 2017

Top 10 Most Read fifteeneightyfour Blog Posts of 2016

Happy New Year! Before we start afresh with new interesting blogs and content, we take a moment to reflect on a bumper year of blogging in 2016.

Sarah Coates | 3 Jan 2017

How the Big Apple Made the Georgia Peach

One of the things that surprised me as I conducted research for The Georgia Peach is how unsouthern Georgia peaches are. Don’t get me wrong: Prunus persica has grown in southern soil that southerners...

William Thomas Okie | 30 Dec 2016

The LLE and Patern Formulation

Luigi Lugiato, author of Nonlinear Optical Systems , 2015 discusses the equation he formulated with Renè Lefever to provide a paradigm for pattern formation in nonlinear optical systems

Luigi Lugiato | 21 Dec 2016

Matryoshka Dolls and Defence Procurement

Cambridge University Press recently published my book The Law of Collaborative Defence Procurement in the European Union. Now many people ask me: “Your book is about defence procurement, right? So why...

Baudouin Heuninckx | 20 Dec 2016

Applied Psychology: Actively caring for people

Blog post written by Scott Geller, Editor and Co-Author Some have suggested B. F. Skinner was a dreamer, authoring the book Walden II about a utopian society in which everyone lives ideal interdependent...

E. Scott Geller | 19 Dec 2016