As a transplant surgeon and an advocate for pediatric healthcare education, I’m thrilled to share my latest five-part series of books designed to guide children and their families through the liver...
When I first embarked on writing and illustrating books for children, I had one simple goal: to make complex medical concepts accessible, relatable, and less intimidating for young patients and their...
According to Thomas Aquinas, knowledge of first causes is the most fundamental kind of knowledge. Since a cause is an explanation – a reason why something is — to say things have no cause...
This is an urban age. The concept of “world cities” and the cross-border networks that animate them inspired a wave of interdisciplinary research. Megaregions like New York, Lagos, Mexico City, and...
Kant’s 1797 essay “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity” has done more than any of his other works to scare students off his moral theory. Interpreters have little time for it. They...
One of the most significant legacies of Greek and Roman antiquity is the vast body of scientific and technical writings which, copied and transmitted across the centuries, has exerted a profound influence...
For the last two thousand years and more, the story of Noah and the flood in the book of Genesis has been thought of as an historical account of what happened around 2,500 BCE, some 1,500 years after...
Branding, personal branding, corporate branding; everyone must brand themselves today in order to be seen and to take part in the continual construction of their identity in the spaces in which they exist...
We have seen a relatively rapid progress of the energy transition in recent years, with increased adoption of wind and solar power, electrification of heating and transport as well as an amplification...
Anthropology and tax might not appear to fit together at first sight. Taxation is often considered a highly technical and numerical subject, more suitable for lawyers, accountants and economists than...
Nestled beneath the “pointed peaks” of the legendary Tmolos Mountains in Turkey, the Temple and Sanctuary of Artemis at Sardis is one of the most impressive monuments of classical antiquity. Dating...
Feminist philosopher and activist María Lugones described dancing the tango as an act of mutual intention – “I ask, intimate, propose; you respond.” I find that her co-constructed tango practice...