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Cosmic Encounters with Alien Life

Steven J. Dick, the editor of The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth, contemplates how finding intelligent life and other worlds would irrevocably change our own.

Steven J. Dick | 3 Nov 2015

Happy Halloween!

First, you’ll want to brush up on the history of Halloween. Then check out all of the great new posts this week if you haven’t already! The gothic and the occult have a deep history in our...

31 Oct 2015

Becoming a Witch

In this excerpt, Virginia Krause, author of Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France (2015), explores how to become a witch.

30 Oct 2015

A Warning to Witches

With three villagers hanged on charges of witchcraft, nearby churches were set on a mission to discourage their parishioners from falling into the darker arts of witchcraft via annual sermons during the superstitious age of 16th Century England.

Andrew Martin | 29 Oct 2015

Dead persons in Hungary who suck the blood of the living

In this excerpt, Augustin Calmet, author of The Phantom World (2012), recalls the chilling story of blood-sucking vampires in 18th Century Hungary.

28 Oct 2015

¡Viva la diferencia! The Concept of Gender in Spanish

To the English-speaking beginner, the notion of masculine (henceforth>M.) and feminine (henceforth>F.) gender for Spanish nouns seems bewildering. Perhaps it should not be so. For in most European...

Ronald Batchelor | 27 Oct 2015

Pakistan Has to Be a Normal State to Qualify for a Nuclear Deal

Call it the ten year itch – of how an exceptional treatment given to India, through a nuclear deal, was consistently gainsaid by a section of the American strategic community, who predicted the certain...

A. Vinod Kumar | 23 Oct 2015

Religion and Economic Development

Amy Reynolds, the author of Free Trade and Faithful Globalization, discusses the impact and implication of trade agreements.

Amy Reynolds | 22 Oct 2015

Hunting with Hemingway: A Recipe Guide

So if you're anything like Ernest Hemingway from 1926 to 1929, you've been traveling the world and taking up some exciting new hobbies: deep sea sportfishing in Cuba and duck hunting in the American Midwest. He chronicled his adventures--how many large fish he caught, how well the hunt went--in letters to friends and family members, collected in The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926-1929.

21 Oct 2015

An Interview with Ian McFarland, the new editor of Scottish Journal of Theology

Find out more about the new editor of Scottish Journal of Theology (SJT)  as he offers advice to authors, discusses where he sees the journal progressing and tells us what the most exciting currents...

20 Oct 2015

Cutting the Gordian Interknot

John Suler, the author of Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric, on how we might respond to the way our lives have become tangled up in the digital world.

John Suler | 16 Oct 2015