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On the 20th of January 2021, the Biden administration released a fact sheet detailing executive actions it would deliver within hours of inauguration. The orders addressed four interrelated crises: the...
You might be offered a dinner in a New England restaurant or an overnight stay in a Midlands pub, a room furnished with a four-poster bed, an oak wooden dresser or even a fishing rod. What would these...
We are all familiar with the jelly bean guessing game. Let every kid in the birthday party make their best guess on the number of jelly beans inside the jar. Whoever is closest to the correct number,...
What does it mean and what does it take to be a foreign language speaker in late antique Christianity? Was such a person considered a heretic? A barbarian? A Christian of equal standing? A saint or a...
In pre-pandemic times scientists’ skilled migration and mobility were described as major drivers of international collaboration among peer scientists overseas. However, since the start of the Covid-19...
‘It’s a tense stand-off as Melvyn Bragg raps John Humphrys’, reads a 28 July 2014 Evening Standard headline. What was the cause of this dispute between two giants of British broadcasting? Lord Bragg’s...
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The essence of biological complexity is communication – a transmission of information between the component parts of an association. But what is the nature of this information and how do genomes co-operate...
Figure 1: Staffordshire ceramic containers for storing bear’s grease, early 1800s, Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum, Collection Reference YBC1 and YCB2. One of the most striking exhibits in the...
This year marks the centenary of the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). An event of immense magnitude it not only consolidated the radically new, utopian, state, but delineated...
Why, in 1882, did Harper’s Weekly publish a cartoon by Thomas Nast depicting Oscar Wilde as a mushroom? The question is one that marks the crucial influence of British decadence on the shape of modern...
There are numerous challenges for those who bear the burden of applying restraint to the use of armed force in today’s armed conflicts. Cambridge Author Sigrid Redse Johansen explores the top 10 commandments for military commanders.
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