Celebrating the transience of life during sakura season
Every year people in Japan celebrate the spectacular but brief flowering of the ornamental cherry trees that have been cultivated in abundance there for many centuries.…
Every year people in Japan celebrate the spectacular but brief flowering of the ornamental cherry trees that have been cultivated in abundance there for many centuries.…
Law and Social Inquiry is excited to announce a new feature—building a community of book authors who both write books and who also write essays on others’ books.…
The May BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled “The barriers, benefits and training needs of clinicians delivering psychological therapy via video” by Joshua Buckman, Rob Saunders, Judy Leibowitz and Rebecca Minton As lockdowns were announced in response to COVID-19, services had to radically change how psychological treatment was provided, moving from face-to-face to remote delivery.…
The challenges in improving nations’ diets persist. As we try to overcome these, an area that is gaining traction is nudging. But can nudge-based interventions change food choice, and enable better decisions when it comes to choosing what to eat? And actually, how effective are they in real-world settings?
For decades, the dominant paradigm has been that the first Americans were descendants of populations that migrated from northeast Asia to North America by crossing the now-submerged Bering Land Bridge around 13,000 years ago.…
We cannot solve problems with the same mindset that created them. -Albert Einstein As I sit to write this post on business and human rights in relation to conflict, the Palestinian people face yet another cycle of violence in their struggle for the right to self-determination, bringing forward the academic challenge that comes with trying to detach one’s self from a personal connection to a topic.…
War always has a high price, paid by people and their land. The land has no value without its secure human being.…
Peter Fitzpatrick (1941-2020) contributed immeasurably to the intellectual, organisational, and cultural life of postcolonial legal studies, critical legal studies, law and social theory and law and the humanities – fields he helped to consolidate.…
Excerpted from Pedagogical Roundtable “Teaching Antiracism” with Joseph Flipper (Bellarmine University) and Christopher Pramuk (Regis University). People often imagine the university as an institution uniquely positioned for antiracism.…
A year and some months into the COVID-19 -pandemic, it is trite to say that it has been an unprecedented challenge to many legal systems around the world.…
The most recent Report of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights centered around business and human rights in conflict zones.…
What is the Beautiful? In Plato’s Hippias Major, Socrates and the sophist Hippias set out to answer this question. Along the way, they evaluate such answers as ‘the appropriate’, ‘the beneficial’, ‘gold’, and even ‘burying your parents’.…
Perhaps no Cambrian invertebrate can claim greater public enthusiasm than Anomalocaris. Not only is it bizarre looking – the story of its discovery, being pieced together from fragments thought to belong to different animals, is uniquely compelling.…
In popular imagination, the Roman Empire was an agent of law and peace in the ancient world. However, Rome had a brutal side, with the death penalty used for a wide range of crimes.
Evolutionary researchers have long puzzled over declining fertility rates wanting to understand the reproductive decision-making process. One critical question for this research is: ‘who decides’?
Hikikomori is a Japanese term that refers to extreme social isolation. First introduced to the medical community by psychiatrist Tamaki Saito in a bestselling book in 1998, the condition has since seen much interest. In Japan, prevalence studies estimating it to occur in 1.2% of 20-49yr olds seemed to confirm anecdotal concerns from many parents worried about whether their children might suffer from the condition and attracted government attention.
Michael Scott – the incompetent but somehow highly successful manager at the heart of the US comedy The Office – once claimed, “Truth be told, I think I thrive under a lack of accountability.”…
Starting from the variational formulation of the Fokker-Planck equation provided by Jordan, Kinderlehrer and Otto in 1998, many evolution partial differential equations in the framework of probability spaces have been interpreted as gradient flow of a suitable free energy functional with respect to the Wasserstein distance.…
After my review of the original version of Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain’s book appeared in the journal, I thought a translation might encourage readers to take up the recent French translation.…
This week we are carrying on our deep dive into Hot Topics from Cambridge, focusing on our Mental Health collection, in connection with Mental Health Awareness Week.…
Last October, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights launched its report ‘Business, human rights and conflict-affected regions: towards heightened action’.…
In this post, Phillip Ayoub (PA), Douglas Page (DP), and Sam Whitt (SW) discuss their APSR article, “Pride amid Prejudice: The Influence of LGBT+ Activism in a Socially Conservative Society.”…
A special issue on the spaces, practices, and material culture that characterised the production and consumption of intoxicants in Europe, the Atlantic, and South Asia between the 16th and 18th centuries.
This article highlights the fact that, alongside its other roles in the early modern British empire, alcohol was also an active force in imperial scientific culture in its role as medium of preservation and display.
This article uses the material culture of smoking to connect an American-sourced intoxicant to changing tastes and expressions of masculinity in early seventeenth-century London.
In July 2020, the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises (Working Group) issued its report, Business, human rights and conflict-affected regions: towards heightened action (A/75/212), which purports to clarify “the practical steps and outlines practical measures that States and business enterprises should take to prevent and address business-related human rights abuse in conflict and post-conflict contexts, focusing on heightened human rights due diligence and access to remedy” (p.…
1. Crypto is the Data Money, Blockchain is the Accounting System It is wrong to think that Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are mere digital monies.…
In the Bolivian Tsimané, who supports who during conflicts is affected by physical size, social status, and existing cooperative and antagonistic relationships.
The many impacts of climate change including desertification, rising-sea levels, extreme weather events, flooding, and other natural disasters, could lead to mass human displacement over the coming century as more land becomes increasingly uninhabitable for our species.…
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is “Some gastrointestinal nematodes and ixodid ticks shared by several wildlife species in the Kruger National Park, South Africa“ With conservation of African mammalian species in mind, wildlife reserves and managed game parks continue to offer some protection to many species and associated natural habitats.…
The paper “Greenhouse gas emissions in agricultural cultivated soils using animal waste-based digestates for crop fertilization“, published in The Journal of Agricultural Science, has been chosen as the latest Editorial Highlight.…