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What innovations changed the human world for ever?

We are well aware how dramatically and rapidly a single innovation can change our lives. The smartphone has rapidly altered communication, access to information, navigation, photography and more. We know...

Robin Derricourt | 2 May 2025

What Kind of Healthcare Research Do We Really Need?

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) dominate clinical research. Among many research designs, RCTs are often considered the gold standard—the most credible and respected form of evidence. In fact, authors...

Karen B. Schmaling, Robert M. Kaplan | 30 Apr 2025

The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-Treatment under International Law

The prohibition of torture is a peremptory norm of international law, while the prohibition of other ill-treatment is at least of a customary law nature. However, although this is clear, the precise parameters...

Stuart Casey-Maslen, University of Johannesburg | 28 Apr 2025

The Cambridge Handbook of EU Sustainable Finance: Regulation, Supervision and Governance

What are we talking about? In recent years, sustainability and sustainable finance have become central public and academic debates. A growing number of laws, policies, and regulations have been introduced...

Kern Alexander, Matteo Gargantini, Michele Siri | 25 Apr 2025

Fighting Grand Corruption:  We Need a New Approach

When I sat down to write Fighting Grand Corruption, I didn’t think I’d be writing it not just about Latin America (with a smattering of other countries) but also about my own country, the United States....

Naomi Roht-Arriaza | 25 Apr 2025

Adolescence and The Siren Call of Screens: Towards humanised screen life

It is rare that a television show becomes truly ubiquitous, but since its release, Adolescence has been talked of almost everywhere in the UK – even Parliament (March 22nd, 2025). Indeed, the series...

Jennifer Rowsell, Samuel Sandor | 23 Apr 2025

A book about the European Art Market and the First World War

‘What about looting? Was there looting during the First World War?’ – I smile at the question from the young man who eagerly awaits confirmation of his supposition.  There’s some habit in...

Maddalena Alvi | 23 Apr 2025

Illusions of Intentionality

When philosophers write about and explain actions they focus almost exclusively on so-called “intentional actions.” These are actions that are done for reasons, selected in the light of one’s beliefs...

Peter Carruthers | 22 Apr 2025

Paradise Painters: Images and Agency in the Age of the Reformations

As the diminutive early Christian saint Giustina teeters between life and death in Paolo Veronese’s painting depicting her martyrdom, her gaze sets itself upon one of the most spectacular scenes of...

Marie-Louise Lillywhite | 22 Apr 2025

Fifty Shades of Corruption ?

Americans hear a lot about corruption these days, with prominent figures claiming (and many citizens agreeing) that our governments suffer major waste, fraud, and abuse. Major changes are taking place,...

Oguzhan Dincer, Michael Johnston | 21 Apr 2025

A complex systems view on the visual arts

It is Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 10:42 am. Artist A. is mixing magenta and cobalt blue oil paint – produced by the famous Blockx manufacturers of artist materials – with a few drops of alkyd...

Paul van Geert | 21 Apr 2025

Sans “White Gaze”: From the Transgressive Multilingual Radiance of a Franco-Malian Pop Star to the Transnational Englishes of Innocent Caribbean Youth

In July 2024, amidst the global attraction of a Paris 2024 Olympics with eugenicist roots historically designed in part to prove the athletic superiority of Europeans racialized as white, Aya Nakamura,...

Patriann Smith | 14 Apr 2025