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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

Understanding the role of central banks in the Eurosystem’s collateral framework

Kjell G. Nyborg, author of Collateral Frameworks: The Open Secret of Central Banks, undertakes forensic-style research into the Eurosystem’s collateral framework.

Kjell G. Nyborg | 19 Dec 2016

Curbing Catastrophe: Following the Money, and Dying from Coal

Ebell to Lead EPA Transition: Following the Money, and Dying from Coal US President-Elect Trump recently picked Myron Ebell to head the transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Ebell...

Timothy H. Dixon | 13 Dec 2016

Learning Sciences: A Virtual Round-table (Week Seven)

Three experts discuss learning sciences in the final week of a seven week long virtual round-table discussion.

R. Keith Sawyer, Michael A. Evans, Martin J. Packer | 12 Dec 2016

How to ‘Shoot the Moon’ – top tips on lunar imaging by astrophotographer and author, Nicolas Dupont-Bloch

In his new book, Shoot the Moon, astrophotographer Nicolas Dupont-Bloch explains and demonstrates how you can capture impressive images of our nearest neighbour in space using a variety of different techniques. Covering equipment ranging from smartphones and DSLRs to specialist planetary cameras, whether you are a novice without a telescope, an amateur developing your skills in imaging, or an experienced astrophotographer, you will benefit from the author's expertise. Here, he offers fifteeneightyfour readers some exclusive top tips on capturing that perfect lunar image.

Nicolas Dupont-Bloch | 6 Dec 2016

Race Matters

“The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line,” W.E.B. DuBois famously observed of the United States.  Despite the occasional proclamations of a post-racial society in the aftermath...

Bert A. Spector | 5 Dec 2016