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Studying Older Lives Over Time

Despite the increasing popularity of reading biographies psychology, as an academic discipline, remains surprisingly uninterested in analysing the course and direction of individual lives.  Although longitudinal...

Peter G. Coleman | 22 Aug 2016

Security Challenges for a New Administration

The awesome responsibility inherent in controlling the United States’ nuclear weapons arsenal has given an increasing number of experienced former officials pause about contemplating a Donald Trump presidency....

Antonia Chayes | 17 Aug 2016

Scientists Making a Difference: a round table discussion

'Scientists Making a Difference' is a remarkable collection of new essays by some of the world's greatest behavioral and brain scientists in which they discuss their own groundbreaking ideas. Here, the volume editors talk about some of the book's key themes.

Donald J. Foss, Susan T. Fiske, Robert J. Sternberg | 15 Aug 2016

Robert Peckham on Epidemics in Modern Asia

One of the questions I get asked most frequently is why I write about the history of epidemic disease. Why focus on an aspect of human existence that can appear so bleak? It’s true that studying epidemics...

Robert Peckham | 12 Aug 2016

Think there’s a lot of gender bias in U.S. elections? Think again.

Jennifer L. Lawless and Danny Hayes talk Women on the Run and whether there is a gender bias in U.S. elections.

Danny Hayes, Jennifer L. Lawless | 11 Aug 2016

Shakespeare’s First Folio: the most-studied book in the world

The most-studied book in the world must be Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, a collection of thirty-six plays first published in London in 1623 and now known as the First Folio....

Emma Smith | 4 Aug 2016

What Can Medieval History Tell Us About Environmental Change?

Does research into medieval history serve any useful purpose other than the pursuit of scholarship for its own sake? Labour Education Minister Charles Clarke thought not when in 2003 he declared that the...

Bruce M.S. Campbell | 3 Aug 2016

The Invisible Wall : Language

Cambridge author Douglas A. Kibbee explores the language of democracy in relation to his new book Language and the Law: Linguistic Inequality in America .

Douglas A. Kibbee | 2 Aug 2016

Author Maxim Bolt discusses his BBC award-winning study of life on the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa

Zimbabwe’s Migrants and South Africa’s Border Farms: The Roots of Impermanence began with my interest in people’s experiences of uprootedness and settlement. At the time, the Zimbabwean-South African...

Maxim Bolt | 31 Jul 2016

Why You Should Care About R

Data science is on the rise and infiltrating almost every field. Properly educated researchers and professionals with an extensive knowledge of how data analysis and statistics are married together will...

John Braun | 28 Jul 2016

How is climate change affecting Polar Regions? Part 3 – Professor Grant Bigg

Professor Grant R. Bigg, author of Icebergs has worked with industry on iceberg and sea-ice related topics since 2007, here he talks about climate change in the polar regions and discusses how the the differences in Arctic/Antarctic geography leads to varied responses in the arctic regions.

Grant R. Bigg | 25 Jul 2016

How Are Elections Run?

Ever since the meltdown in Florida starting on election day 2000, there has been a spotlight on how elections are run.  Since that time, the states have been the venue for many election reforms, lawsuits,...

Barry C. Burden, Charles Stewart III | 20 Jul 2016