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A Liturgy in the Making: Revising Medieval Dominican Chant
Alleluia Pie pater dominice in the Dominican exemplar manuscript Rome, Santa Sabina, XIV L 1, f. 353v A new chant had been composed for St Dominic’s feast day. The scribe was stumped. He had been hired to copy the text of the first manuscript of the…
Moving Away from Extreme Views of Religion and Politics: A Dynamic Civil Religion
Extreme voices dominate the national public debate in America over the proper role of religion and politics. Christian nationalists call for Christianity to dominate politics and culture. At the other extreme, strict secularists seek to remove all religio…
Who Was Allen Ginsberg and Why Does He Still Matter?
When someone says the name “Allen Ginsberg”, any number of things immediately come to mind. Ginsberg was a celebrated US poet, and his work “Howl” is world famous. But he was also a noted activist. Not only did Ginsberg v…
Fixing Our Economy
Our economy doesn’t work for us and it hasn’t for a long time. Not only is it prone to periodic crises and breakdowns, but it is failing us in terms of addressing longer-term issues such as climate, elder care, and a living wage. This cannot b…
The History of the Declaration of Independence
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. Few documents in world history have been as extensively studied and analyzed, and it is fair to ask if there is anything new to be said about the Declaration. There certain…
The Coup Trap in Latin America
Why do governments get overthrown? Why are many political systems chronically unstable? The Coup Trap in Latin America answers these questions by explaining why political systems fall prey to endless cycle of golpes and contra golpes. It…
Two types of division of labour in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations: teasing out the implications
The conduct of empirical exercises and comparative case studies and the invoking of theoretical analyses are common to almost all economic debates as participants seek to support/undercut different positions. Industrial policy (IP) debates are no exceptio…
Hyperreal Love: Post-Soviet Brides and the Making of China’s Transnational Romance
In Post-Soviet Brides in China Dream, I look at marriages between Chinese men and post-Soviet Slavic women and how they have come to be seen in China as an ideal type of transnational love and a pathway to the “China Dream.” I also look at wha…
The Logic of Corruption: Why It Persists and Why Reforms Fail
Corruption is everywhere. From senior politicians and bureaucrats to street-level bureaucrats, and from the richest countries to the poorest, corruption remains widespread, and efforts to fight it keep falling short. Global surveys show that corruption le…
Languaging: Playfulness and Precarity
There is something deeply uncomfortable about admitting that you are not fully fluent in your own mother tongue. As a Mongolian born and raised in Mongolia, I grew up believing Mongolian was naturally “mine”: the language of my childhood, my h…
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From Neanderthals to new identities: Cambridge looks ahead to Europa 2026 in a changing prehistoric landscape
Cambridge journals showcase research spanning world archaeology across all periods. Our leading journal in prehistory is Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (PPS), which we publish on behalf of the Prehistoric Society.&nbs…
New Cambrian ichnotaxa from Wisconsin, USA
The Cambrian tidal flats of the Elk Mound Group at Blackberry Hill, Wisconsin, USA, have been known to preserve many trace fossils including arthropod trackways, resting traces of slug-like animals, and a range of burrows, some even directly associated wi…
Buried and beyond: Permian trilobites of the shallow and deep
Trilobites ruled the Paleozoic oceans long before the dinosaurs, yet by the Late Devonian period, the three-lobed critters were already starting their decline.…
Making a Psychologist: Replacing Reductive Labels with Human Language
This is Part III of Making a Psychologist, a blog series describing how to passively collect continuous real-world behavioral data then build algorithms to predict future actions and mental states.…
I Forgot the Trigger Warning
In the June 26 edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – Dr. Bahjat Najeeb reflects on the lasting psychological impact of conflict and the ways modern media reshapes how we engage with it.…
World Parrot Day: “Let’s crack the hard nuts – be more Parrot”
Every year, May 31st, shines a spotlight on some of the world’s most intelligent, charismatic, and threatened birds. This year’s theme, “Let’s crack the hard nuts – be more Parrot,” celebrates the resilience and problem…
Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Aviation: Moving Beyond Efficiency Towards Intelligent Transformation
The Aeronautical Journal May 2026 Vol 130 No 1347 The aviation industry is currently facing one of the greatest challenges in its history: maintaining global connectivity while significantly reducing its environmental footprint.…
One year on – state of play at the Prehistoric Society Europa Conference 2026
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society is back at the Europa conference this year, presenting our newest issue and polling our members on what they would like to see in the journal.…
The death jar: uncovering a lost mortuary tradition in Laos
For over a century, the giant stone jars of northern Laos have remained one of Southeast Asia’s great archaeological mysteries. Scattered across remote ridgelines and forests on the Plain of Jars, these massive megalithic vessels have sparked debate…
Why sleep might be important for weight management
The Paper of the Month for May is “Time for bed: diet, sleep and obesity in children and adults“, and is published in the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society This paper is freely available to download for one month.…
