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The Mattering Effect

Feeling like we matter is one of the most defining features of our humanity. When that feeling is present, we thrive. When it is absent, we feel ignored and helpless. Threats to mattering diminish dignity...

Isaac Prilleltensky, Ora Prilleltensky | 21 Apr 2021

Terrorism and History

How can the study of history help us to understand and respond to terrorism? In the two decades since the 9/11 attacks on the USA, there has been an explosion of research on terrorist violence. But...

Richard English | 20 Apr 2021

Islamic Art and Architecture at Turbat-i Jam, Iran

The decorative work on the iwan, sponsored by Shah ʿAbbas I, Safavi Photo © 2021 Shivan Mahendrarajah

Shivan Mahendrarajah | 20 Apr 2021

How class colours race – South Africa’s white workers in global context

How does one write the history of people thought not to exist? In apartheid South Africa, the obsession to maintain political and economic power for the white minority at the expense and exploitation...

Danelle van Zyl-Hermann | 19 Apr 2021

Exploiting Seismic Waveforms: Correlation, Heterogeneity and Inversion

Brian Kennett and Andreas Fichtner met when Brian was visiting the University of Munich from Australia on a Humboldt Research Award. They have since collaborated on a number of papers, mostly involving...

Brian Kennett, Andreas Fichtner | 19 Apr 2021

What have Mathematics and Statistics ever done for you?

By Graham Robertson Senior Marketing Executive, Cambridge University Press How much do you know about the influence of mathematics and statistics? April is Mathematics and Statistics Awareness...

16 Apr 2021

Asian North American literature and culture before 1930

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a surge in anti-Asian sentiment, with nearly 3800 incidents of harassment, discrimination, and violence toward Asian and Asian Americans reported this past...

Josephine Lee, Julia H. Lee | 16 Apr 2021

The Adriatic, sea of stories

My mother’s family comes from Dugi Otok, the outermost island in the Zadar archipelago, off the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. I was often told as a child that from the island’s western cliffs you could...

Magdalena Skoblar | 16 Apr 2021

Talking to Machines

Talking to machines is becoming commonplace. We routinely tell our smart speakers what to play next, we tell our satnavs where we want to go, we ask our phones general knowledge questions, we dictate...

Steve Young | 16 Apr 2021

India and the World

How to view the history of India in a global perspective ? One answer is to frame it within a project of ‘provincialisation’ of Europe as advocated by Dipesh Chakrabarty. But there is an alternative...

Claude Markovits | 15 Apr 2021

Power Shift: The Global Political Economy of Energy Transitions

How to transition to a zero carbon economy in a timely and fair fashion is one of the greatest challenges the world faces. Bill Gates spelt out his vision of how to do it in his recent book How to Avoid...

Peter Newell | 15 Apr 2021

Bounded gaps between primes: the epic breakthroughs of the early 21st century

Why did I write this book? Certainly there are quite a few mathematicians who could write a better book on bounded gaps. I thought that the series of wonderful breakthroughs deserved to be celebrated...

Kevin Broughan | 14 Apr 2021