October 2013

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What does it mean to be un-American?

We are pleased to announce the publication of the “Un-America” Special issue of of Journal of American Studies. As an introduction to the topic of Un-Americanism, Dr George Lewis, Guest Editor of the Special Issue examines the topic and asks what un-Americanism is and whether it is still a relevant term today.

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The Potassium Paradox

Saeed A. Khan, Ph.D., ,Richard L Mulvaney, Ph.D. and Timothy R Ellsworth, Ph.D. have published a compelling and provocative article on “The potassium paradox: Implications for soil fertility, crop production and human health.”…

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Ethics and force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike

Health Professionals Who Participate in Force-feeding Prisoners on Hunger Strike at Guantanamo Bay Should Lose Professional Licenses Force-feeding Violates Medical Ethics and Amounts to Torture   Physicians and other licensed health professionals are force-feeding hunger strikers held prisoner at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Cuba.…

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Bringing Ancient Greek Drama to Life

‘All human skills are from Prometheus’..or so Prometheus claims in the ancient Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound.  As the first of two features marking Cambridge University Press’ sponsorship of the Cambridge Greek Play 2013, Dr Oliver Thomas, incoming Editor of The Cambridge Classical Journal, explores the enduring fascination of the figure of Prometheus.

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The methodology for thinking about ways of knowing

The Knowledge Engineering Review has just published an exciting special issue on visualization, visual representation, and reasoning with visual knowledge. With Artificial Intelligence (AI) understood as “the methodology for thinking about ways of knowing” (in the 1988 words of Seymour Papert), computer scientists and knowledge engineers are increasingly interested in alternatives to text as forms of knowledge and as means for its representation.…

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Wasting their 5 a day? Examining school children’s lunchtime habits

The October Nutrition Society Paper of the Month is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Food choice, plate wastes and nutrient intake of elementary- and middle-school students participating in the US National School Lunch Program’ Elementary and middle school students, eating school lunch, do not frequently select vegetables and waste considerably more fruits and vegetables than the entrée or milk, a new study, published in Public Health Nutrition, from Colorado State University (CSU) shows.…

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