I got my first mobile phone when I was 18 years old. Internet at my time still made this annoying sound trying to connect from the phoneline, that somebody else needed every time you were doing something...
Bayes’ Theorem started as a way of obtaining conditional probabilities via the reversed conditionals and thus was called law of inverted probabilities. However, the Bayesian statistical theory uses...
The wilderness narrative, the story at the heart of the Torah, or Pentateuch, follows the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan—from enslavement, to liberation, to independence. In an important sense, though,...
Fabrizio and Mateusz live in the same jurisdiction. They enter the same website at the same time, search for the same product, but each person pays a different price. They each paid a personalized price. Will...
How did Indigenous people in the New World understand their encounters with Europeans during the colonial era? This question is at the centre of ongoing debates among anthropologists and historians and...
When the editors of The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature first contacted me with a request to serve on the volume’s advisory council, they promised that their demands on my time would be...
In our new book “The EU Law on Crypto-Assets” (Cambridge University Press, 2025, 560pp), we discuss the EU’s regulatory responses to the rapidly growing area of crypto-assets, framed against challenges...
In late 2024 Cambridge University Press published two surveys of the history of evolutionism, Michael Ruse’s Charles Darwin: No Revel, Great Revolutionary and my own Darwin for the People. Michael passed...
Scholars have often looked at cultures through the lens of their “keywords”– terms allegedly so unique as to be untranslatable. In German-speaking countries, one six-letter word has particularly...
On 15 October 2024 I attended the UK premiere of Joy at the Royal Festival Hall — part of the 68th annual British Film Institute gala sponsored by Cunard. Directed by Ben Taylor and produced by...
In 2022, at the 5th session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, the session adopted a landmark resolution recognising the potential of nature-based solutions (NBS) to contribute significantly...
Cartels Diagnosed contains twelve gripping and insightful case studies of collusion from key business sectors – such as airlines, gasoline industry, and big pharma – which span from North...