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...
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...
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:...
Earlier this year, my first book, Sex and the Making of the British Empire, originally published in 2006 gained some attention because of Bridgerton’s second season on Netflix. My book was about women...
In 2010, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution recognizing water and sanitation as human rights, with the support of more than 120 countries. This remarkable political stance opened space for a...
As a scholar of the literature of climate change, I am often asked, “Can books save the planet?”. Well, not literally, no. But I do believe that fictional narratives in which characters respond to...
Everybody’s talking about race, but not many seem to know what it is, or where it came from. That’s understandable, for there’s not a single story of the history of race to be written. How concepts...
During the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Gutteres, went to Ukraine. Apart from capital city, Kyiv, Gutteres visited the town of Bucha which...
For centuries, scholars have characterized eighteenth-century literary satire as an aggressive and specifically masculine practice and genre. This perception is clearly apparent in twentieth-century...
Moving towards a low-carbon economy will require integrating massive quantities of renewable power into the electricity grid. This transition will create many challenges as existing electricity market...
The threat of severe anthropogenic harm to the environment continues to grow year-on-year. Military attacks, illegal resource extraction, exploiting endangered species, toxic dumping, and rampant deforestation...
In an incident which has become notorious in philosophical circles, in 1956 a young philosopher by the name of Elizabeth Anscombe protested the awarding of an honorary degree by Oxford to former US President...