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  • 16 Feb 2021
    David Merritt

    Evaluating An Alternative Cosmology

    David Merritt, author of PROSE Award winning book "A Philosophical Approach to MOND: Assessing the Milgromian Research Program in Cosmology” discusses the competing theories of MOND and LCDM ‘Suppose that the dark-matter detection experiments continue to fail. How can we hope to ever decide between the two competing theories?’

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  • 2 Feb 2021
    Joshua A. T. Fairfield

    Law and the Language of the Future

    Joshua A.T. Fairfield, author of Runaway Technology, on hate speech, disinformation, and technology,

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  • 2 Feb 2021
    Alex Gezerlis

    What’s wrong with black boxes?

    In my recently published textbook, Numerical Methods in Physics with Python, I opt against the use of black boxes. Instead, I show students how to mathematically derive numerical techniques, how to implement them in the popular programming language Python, as well as how to use them to study problems that show up in physics.

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  • 28 Jan 2021
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    Roel Snieder, Jen Schneider

    Pandemic Opportunities

    There is no question that COVID-19 has brought tremendous suffering around the globe. We have lost over one million humans to the pandemic. Some who have been infected have long-lasting and devastating symptoms. People have lost their jobs and some go hungry or don’t have a place to live. There has also been significant mental […]

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  • 23 Dec 2020
    Simon Friederich

    Are We Living in a Multiverse? Why We Might – and Why We Might Never Know

    Simon Friederich, author of Multiverse Theories: A Philosophical Perspective discusses the “multiverse” idea. What the idea entails and whether it can truly be tested.

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  • 10 Dec 2020
    Ivana Maric, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz), Osvaldo Simeone

    Information Theoretic Perspectives on 5G Systems and Beyond

    The editors of Information Theoretic Perspectives on 5G Systems and Beyond discuss their new book which provides a detailed overview of the state-of-art approaches that led to realization of 5G.

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  • 16 Nov 2020
    Wallace Arthur

    Huge boost to the search for extraterrestrial life

    A decision has just been reached that will give an amazing boost to our capacity to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. On 12th November, member states of the European Space Agency (ESA) signed off on the proposed space telescope called ARIEL, which has thus been given the green light for construction and launch. There […]

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  • 11 Nov 2020
    Wole Soboyejo, Leo Daniel

    Q&A with the editors of ‘Bioinspired Structures and Design’

    What inspired Bioinspired Structures and Design? This book was inspired by a course entitled “Bioinspired Structures” (16,982) that was taught by Prof. Leo Daniel at MIT. This highly successful course, which was posted on MIT’s open courseware, attracted the attention of Cambridge University Press, and led eventually to a contract with Cambridge University Press to […]

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