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Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England

Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 439/16, f. 74r (detail): John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes. Image courtesy of The Rosenbach, Philadelphia.

Daniel Wakelin | 30 May 2022

Victorians, Vagrancy and One-way Tickets to Rwanda

On 14 May Boris Johnson announced that preparations have been made to ship 50 ‘illegal’ immigrants from the UK to Rwanda, a country to which they have no connection. This is a cruel and baffling piece...

Alistair Robinson | 25 May 2022

Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England

Peter Brook’s The Empty Space famously begins, I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that...

Emma Whipday, Simon Smith | 25 May 2022

Programming in Parallel with CUDA

My new book “Programming in Parallel with CUDA – A Practical Guide” was born out of the excitement I feel about computing with GPUs.  I have always had passion for science and computer programming. ...

Richard Ansorge | 24 May 2022

Sympathy for the Boss (Class and Community in Contemporary American Fiction)

Though best known for its unusual, first-person-plural narrator (a group of office-workers speaking as “we”), Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came to the End (2007) also includes a single third-person chapter,...

Ryan M. Brooks | 23 May 2022

The Creative Trance: Altered States of Consciousness and the Creative Process

Inherent in in all of us, are many possibilities, and among those possibilities are multiple states of consciousness. While waking consciousness is fundamental to daily living, there are other, altered...

Tobi Zausner | 23 May 2022

The Impact Of The War In Ukraine On The Prospects For Cyber Peace

Even though the war in Ukraine has only been waged for a few months as of this writing, there are already a number of important legacies that are worth exploring including its implications for the future...

Scott J. Shackelford | 19 May 2022

Cuban Privilege

On May 1, 2006 approximately three-fourths of a million unauthorized immigrants across America courageously absented themselves from their jobs to participate in “The Day without Immigrants,” to convince...

Susan Eva Eckstein | 19 May 2022

Taxation and Belonging: Lessons from the Attalids of Pergamon

View of the Stoa of Attalos during reconstruction in 1956 (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Agora Image: 2012.55.0183)

Noah Kaye | 18 May 2022

Meet the Author: Andrew A. Chien

In a 25-year career, Professor Andrew A. Chien  has been a chair professor, led Intel Research, and served as Editor in Chief of Communications of the ACM, and been an active researcher in cutting...

17 May 2022

Anti-Constitutional Populism

On 3 April 2022, Victor Orbán won his fourth straight election victory in Hungary. On 9 May, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, the son of a former dictator of the Philippines followed President...

Wojciech Sadurski, Adam Czarnota, Martin Krygier | 17 May 2022

Geomathematics

For every tourist in Cambridge, there are some must-see spots like King’s College chapel, the Mathematical Bridge at Queens‘ College, and, certainly, the apple tree at Trinity College. To be precise:...

Volker Michel | 11 May 2022