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New Pronouns and Old Stories: Nonbinary Narratives in Nineteenth-Century France

The English language comes ready-made with the gender-neutral third person pronoun “they,” and a history stretching back before Shakespeare of using it in a singular context for that very purpose....

Anne E. Linton | 14 Mar 2022

English Republican Exiles – the European Side of the Story

The idea for the The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration evolved from my realisation some 15 years ago now that there was comparatively little literature either on the fortunes...

Gaby Mahlberg | 10 Mar 2022

Floral Diagrams: an aid to understanding flower morphology and evolution

There are about 390,000 known flowering plant species on earth, with a far-reaching floral diversity. Flowers have evolved to become the essential systems necessary for reproduction and they have attained...

Louis P. Ronse De Craene | 10 Mar 2022

The Social History of Philosophy

For all its other-worldly reputation, philosophy has always been very good at PR. Already in ancient Greece, philosophers sold their teaching as a way of life that would supposedly make you a better,...

Dmitri Levitin | 9 Mar 2022

Introduction to Estuarine Hydrodynamics

even for those who live thousands of kilometers away from estuaries, these systems provide food, allow commerce, and protect resources that are part of their daily life Understanding the functioning...

Arnoldo Valle-Levinson | 8 Mar 2022

Irony and Earnestness in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Political astrology is one of those idiosyncratic 18th century genres that seem bizarre to the modern sensibility.[1] Despite this unfamiliarity, I would suggest that a close analogue of political astrology...

Shane Herron | 2 Mar 2022

Notorious B.I.G.’S “Ten Crack Commandments” and Donald Trump

In his 1997 song, “Ten Crack Commandments,” The Notorious BIG offered some rules to the drug game: I’ve been in this game for years; it made me an animal.There’s rules to this shit; I wrote...

Frank Rudy Cooper, Gregory S. Parks | 28 Feb 2022

Picking up the Pieces

After the extensive support to monetary and financial sectors in the aftermath of the global financial crisis and then during the Covid-19 pandemic, central bankers are now faced with the difficult task...

Jagjit Chadha | 28 Feb 2022

Would it be possible, at least in theory, for us—you and I—to become shape shifters?

Wait–aren’t we already? After all, we can change our features quite radically through surgery, if we have the money and the will. However, these aren’t the changes involved in the sort of...

Steven Luper | 26 Feb 2022

Alert is sounding on our poisoned Earth

A Red Alert is sounding over the rising tide of toxic chemistry which is inundating the Earth, humanity and all life. Recently, scientists warned that the world’s large rivers are heavily polluted...

Julian Cribb | 24 Feb 2022

Advice for fiction writers

Writers looking for guidance as they embark on their first novel or short story will often come across neat formulations – little nuggets of advice that can be easily swallowed: ‘Write what you know’; ‘Show,...

Sarah Burton, Jem Poster | 24 Feb 2022

Water Quality Impacts of the Energy-Water Nexus

As fossil fuels consumption has increased over the last century, so have greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to climate change and global warming. In our new book “Water Quality Impacts of the Energy-Water...

Avner Vengosh, Erika Weinthal | 24 Feb 2022