May 2023

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Expansion and improvement of Cambridge Core ecommerce service

From today, users of Cambridge Core will benefit from improvements to the digital ecommerce options available to them. The improvements include the option to purchase digital access to books and Cambridge Elements titles and the ability to add different formats such as Higher Education textbooks and journal articles to a single basket for checkout, meaning all can now be purchased in a single transaction.…

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The double-edged sword of keeping livestock: balancing nutritional benefits with disease risks in poor nations

In many low- and lower-middle-income countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where mixed crop-livestock farming is widely practiced, livestock keeping provides income, food, nutrition and other benefits for the rural poor. The nutritional benefits of livestock keeping are particularly important since malnutrition continues to cause nearly half of annual global child deaths, and can have lasting effects on the physical growth and cognitive development of millions of surviving children.

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Mindfully with Tunmise: Interview with Nigerian broadcaster and mental health advocate

The April edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – features an interview with Tunmise Kuku, a Nigerian radio broadcaster and mental health advocate who has been open about her diagnosis of Type II Bipolar Affective Disorder. Three years ago, she took a deliberate career break to write Living Mindfully: A Journey of Being, a memoir that draws from her experiences and stories. It has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

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Why Objects Speak

This text is identified as my own by the name placed above it, which seems sensible enough. Marking ownership was one of the earliest uses to which the ancient Greeks put their alphabet—which was to spawn among others the alphabet in which this text is written—but they had a strikingly different way of doing so. ‘I am the kylix of Korax’, declares an eighth-century BCE wine-drinking cup from Rhodes; ‘I am the lekythos of Tataie—whosoever steals me will go blind’, threatens a seventh-century oil flask from Cumae; ‘I am the remembrance of Ergotimos’, announces a shelf of Attic rock from the sixth century.

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Building a new frontier

Martyn Dade-Robertson, Editor-in-Chief of Research Directions: Biotechnology Design, explains more about this emerging branch of science Can we grow a building?…

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Solar Geoengineering: Political and Security Challenges of ‘Dimming’ the Sun on the Horizon

In my open access article ‘Considering Stratospheric Aerosol Injections beyond an Environmental Frame: the ‘Emergency’ techno-fix and Preemptive Security’, I focus on a form of solar geoengineering known as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) which is attracting increasing attention as a potential technological response to the growing problems associated with climate change.…

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What a decade of experience tells us about buffelgrass control

Buffelgrass is a highly invasive perennial that reduces the biodiversity of native ecosystems and provides ready fuel for wildfires in the arid regions where it thrives. After examining a decade of data from Arizona’s Saguaro National Park, researchers writing in the journal Invasive Plant Science and Management describe best practices for buffelgrass control.

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