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...
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...
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.
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...
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
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...
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...
Kjell G. Nyborg, author of Collateral Frameworks: The Open Secret of Central Banks, undertakes forensic-style research into the Eurosystem’s collateral framework.
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...
Three experts discuss learning sciences in the final week of a seven week long virtual round-table discussion.
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.
“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...