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Royal Dutch Shell is in the dock, at least in The Netherlands. The historic decision by The Hague District Court found that the Shell group’s inaction on climate change was a threat to human rights...
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The terms “World Christianity” and “global (or world) history” refer to academic fields that have become widespread in recent decades, reflecting the highly interconnected world we live in, and...
What does it mean for a sequence of 0s and 1s to be random? One way to answer this question is to use tools from mathematical logic, specifically computability theory: a sequence is random if it contains...
This month, we celebrate publication of A History of Irish Women’s Poetry. I asked a handful of the volume’s authors to tell us something about each of their chapters. Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha,...
Why a new volume on civil disobedience? Libraries are already filled with fat tomes on the topic. Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., canonical figures in its history,...
Despite the many debates about what psychology’s subject matter is, it holds certain basic categories in common that are assumed just to exist ‘out there’, ‘in nature’. Development is one such....
Before Covid-19 threw our global systems into chaos, an intense and urgent public debate focused on several other international concerns. In 2020, data from Brazil’s national space research institute,...
Visions of a world organization armed with its own air force, imposing international law and order through high-tech aeroplanes, may sound like a science-fiction fantasy, straight from the books of H.G....
The intersection of music, wellness, and aging is understood as an integrated whole that not only reflects and speaks to our being but also to the transcendent concepts that define and direct us in life’s...
What do honey bees and staghorn ferns have in common? At first glance, not a lot. Yet they are both ‘eusocial’ organisms. They live in colonies where different individuals performing separate...
Shortly after William Shakespeare’s famous words, “all the world’s a stage,” were uttered in the opening performance of As You Like It in the new Globe theater, the Red Dragon set sail to found...
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