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Surviving Climate Chaos: Why climate change is wicked hard

Surviving Climate Chaos is being published into a new world of lethal fires, floods and record-breaking temperatures, while the IPCC warns us that we are in the last decade before Arctic, oceanic and...

Julian Caldecott | 15 Nov 2021

Are Economists becoming artificially (more) intelligent?

At first glance, the economy of a city, a country, and the entire world, seems to be something too complicated to understand, and even more so to predict. The purchase of a pair of sneakers in a sports...

Ruben Mercado | 12 Nov 2021

How reliable is wind energy?

Using wind energy to generate electricity has been a big topic in the climate change discussion for many years. But can we rely on renewables like wind to take up the slack as we begin to phase out...

Colin G. Anderson | 11 Nov 2021

Turbo-Charging the Tech Industry: Dual-Class Stock Coming to a Stock Exchange Near You Soon!

With Facebook introducing us to the ‘Meta-verse’, Zoom becoming as relevant to our lives as the humble telephone, and ‘Google’ being as much a verb as a corporate colossus, Big Tech is shaping...

Bobby V. Reddy | 11 Nov 2021

Climate Change, Sustainable Engineering & Technology

Edited by Ellie Pawsey, Marketing Executive, Cambridge University Press How can technology help us create a greener future? The UK is hosting the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the...

Bhavik R. Bakshi | 10 Nov 2021

Transitioning to a Prosperous, Resilient and Carbon-Free Economy: A Guide for Decision-Makers

The book pulls together the key elements and issues about the transition to low carbon, climate-adapted economy in one volume. ‘Transitioning to a Prosperous, Resilient and Carbon-Free Economy:...

Peter J. Dawson | 9 Nov 2021

Weather Underground: Environmental Impacts of War and the Forgotten International Legal Instruments that Govern

As the world’s eyes were on Glasgow, where more than 100 world leaders provided pledges to limit greenhouse gas emissions, the focus was on governments and industry. Not mentioned in the dispatches,...

Kobi Leins | 9 Nov 2021

The Cutting-Edge of Edge Learning

Machine Learning (ML) has demonstrated great promises in various fields, e.g., smart health, smart surveillance, smart home, self-driving, smart grid, which are fundamentally altering the way individuals...

Song Guo, Zhihao Qu | 9 Nov 2021

Surviving climate chaos at CoP 26 and the demonstrations outside

Truths are emerging though the CoP 26 talks, pledges, alliances, and efforts to align private capital with public interests, while governments try to reassure a scared and outraged public.

Julian Caldecott | 8 Nov 2021

International Theatre Festivals and 21st-Century Interculturalism

By the end of the 20th Century festivals were springing up all over the world like mushrooms. Events that used merely to be events had become, in current jargon, “festivalized” as the world experienced...

Ric Knowles | 5 Nov 2021

Anesthesia for Maternal-Fetal Surgery: Clinical Concepts and Practice

Have you ever wondered how some babies develop congenital anomalies? Or more so, how some of these anomalies are repaired during pregnancy? How does that happen- particularly with the pregnancy continuing...

Olutoyin A. Olutoye | 4 Nov 2021

New Perspectives on the Haitian Revolution

How and why did the Haitian Revolution happen? How did enslaved people from varying backgrounds come together to orchestrate the most radical political event of the modern era – the only revolt of enslaved...

Crystal Nicole Eddins | 4 Nov 2021