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Urban health in the Middle Ages and Today: Changing Community Politics and Environments

Through vaccination campaigns and lifting restrictions, authorities across the globe are promoting the idea of a return to normal, yet which form the ‘end’ of the COVID pandemic will take is uncertain....

Janna Coomans | 30 Aug 2021

Conversations on Quantum Gravity

The following press release was first published courtesy of University of Amsterdam: https://iop.uva.nl/content/news/2021/08/conversations-on-quantum-gravity.htmlhttps://iop.uva.nl/content/news/2021/08/conversations-on-quantum-gravity.html ‘Conversations...

Jácome (Jay) Armas | 26 Aug 2021

Surviving Climate Chaos: Death spirals and deadlines

Surviving Climate Chaos is being published into a new world of lethal fires, floods and record-breaking temperatures, as well as frantic international negotiations before CoP 26 in Glasgow. This is while...

Julian Caldecott | 26 Aug 2021

Assessing Afghanistan with the Unified War Theory

America’s hasty extrication from its war in Afghanistan was anything but smooth, and now the world’s leading superpower’s two-decade misadventure there has ended with a shocking, humiliating defeat....

Colonel Geoffrey F. Weiss | 25 Aug 2021

Thinking Inside the Box

When my siblings and I were very young, our mother created a ‘Get Better Box’. This small cardboard box housed a collection of tiny toys and unusual household objects, and was brought out whenever...

Lucy Razzall | 23 Aug 2021

Surviving Climate Chaos: Fierce chaos and tipping points

Surviving Climate Chaos is being published into a new world of lethal fires, floods and record-breaking temperatures, as well as frantic international negotiations before CoP 26 in Glasgow. This is while...

Julian Caldecott | 19 Aug 2021

Unifying Social History and Knowledge Production in Central Africa

Western academic research about Africa has been likened to industrial mining: researchers arrive uninvited, extract knowledge from local communities using ‘foreign’ technologies, and disappear back...

Miles Larmer | 16 Aug 2021

Cadastral Jihad: On the Spatialities of Law and its Absence in early Islamic Law

It is commonplace for most to translate the Arabic term jihad as holy war. From the medieval Crusades to the War on Terror, the term evokes images of the turbaned militant warrior. Jihad on this reading...

Anver M. Emon, Urfan Khaliq | 16 Aug 2021

Making Unseen Theatre

Earlier this year, Graham McLaren and Neil Murray, Directors of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre at the time, invited me to curate a series of audio plays. Like theatres everywhere in the past year, the Abbey...

Christopher Morash | 16 Aug 2021

Abducting their own children

Media reports regularly note the despair and distress caused to a parent when their erstwhile partner absconds with the children of their prior relationship. Law enforcement agencies are routinely involved...

Anver M. Emon, Urfan Khaliq | 13 Aug 2021

The White Australia Policy

In the past, anti-immigration sentiment was often enshrined in government policy as a form of institutional racism. In the late nineteenth century, concern was growing in the Australian colonies about...

Karen Stollznow | 12 Aug 2021

Synchronized ion plasmon waves is a new view on neuron signaling

Though the book “Quantum Nano-Plasmonics” concerns a random-phase approximation model of plasmons in metallic nanoparticles, it finds unexpected application to soft plasmonics in bio matter. A wave...

Witold A. Jacak | 12 Aug 2021