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February 6th 2025 0

Beyond the Invisible Hand: Exploring the Construction of Markets

Markets are everywhere—in our communities, workplaces, and even our personal lives—shaping society in important and often unnoticed ways. For many, markets are viewed as the solution to society’s most pressing challenges, from improving …

February 6th 2025

Reimagining Prosperity in the EU

We live in the times of profound pessimism about the future. Where has the optimism of the 90s gone? And how is Europe, and its political leaders, trying to create new grounds for optimism? In Europe, the earlier receipt for some time was the European Gre…

February 5th 2025

“The Pediatric Liver Transplant Journey: A Five-Part Series”

As a transplant surgeon and an advocate for pediatric healthcare education, I’m thrilled to share my latest five-part series of books designed to guide children and their families through the liver transplant journey. Each book in the series breaks …

February 5th 2025

“Dialysis: An Aquarium Filter for Your Blood”

When I first embarked on writing and illustrating books for children, I had one simple goal: to make complex medical concepts accessible, relatable, and less intimidating for young patients and their families. My latest book, Dialysis: An Aquarium Filter …

February 5th 2025

Why Is There Something and Not Rather Nothing? Hey, Whatever

According to Thomas Aquinas, knowledge of first causes is the most fundamental kind of knowledge.  Since a cause is an explanation – a reason why something is — to say things have no cause is to say that they have no explanation.  Mo…

February 4th 2025

The Extraordinary History of World Cities

This is an urban age. The concept of “world cities” and the cross-border networks that animate them inspired a wave of interdisciplinary research. Megaregions like New York, Lagos, Mexico City, and Mumbai captivate the world by their scale and…

February 4th 2025

Bidding farewell to Kant’s ‘murderer at the door’

Kant’s 1797 essay “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity” has done more than any of his other works to scare students off his moral theory. Interpreters have little time for it. They call it “grotesque”, “sho…

January 31st 2025

Recovering an ancient scientific culture: The case of the Roman artes

One of the most significant legacies of Greek and Roman antiquity is the vast body of scientific and technical writings which, copied and transmitted across the centuries, has exerted a profound influence on the development of the modern world. Certain ce…

January 31st 2025

Noah the Environmentalist and the Flood

For the last two thousand years and more, the story of Noah and the flood in the book of Genesis has been thought of as an historical account of what happened around 2,500 BCE, some 1,500 years after the creation of the world. For the last several hundred…

January 30th 2025

Brand Ownership in the Cultural Landscape

Branding, personal branding, corporate branding; everyone must brand themselves today in order to be seen and to take part in the continual construction of their identity in the spaces in which they exist and engage with the wider world. We talk about bra…

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February 5th 2025 0

The Publication of the First Translated Article in LSR

Mayra Feddersen and colleagues have published in the Law & Society Review a Spanish-language translation of their article, “‘The state is something that disappoints’: legal consciousness amid institutional dissatisfact…

February 4th 2025 0

Evaluating Fair Use Principle in the context of Free Service Providing Websites

The extensive use of free service providing websites by netizens aligned with ignorance of their copyright violation while accessing such websites is an issue for deliberation.…

February 3rd 2025 0

Introducing the new Co-Editors-in-Chief of Development and Psychopathology

In 1989, Dr. Dante Cicchetti founded Development and Psychopathology, a journal that quickly came to reflect the best scholarship in the then nascent field of developmental psychopathology.…

February 3rd 2025 0

PMLA Articles in the College Classroom

Many years ago, while still in graduate school, I was helping a group of undergraduates understand a scholarly essay about translation, when one student asked me (with all good intentions): “Why do we need to know this?”…

January 31st 2025 0

Constitutionalism, technology, environmental governance and more

The latest issue of the German Law Journal is perfectly timed for the start of the year, as it covers an array of themes poised to dominate the scholarly agenda in 2025.…

January 30th 2025 0

World NTD Day – Progress, Challenges, and the Path to Elimination

On 30th January, we celebrate World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day. This annual celebration highlights the hard work and achievements of the many researchers, medical workers, NGOs and other committed individuals in this field, and acts as a convenient f…

January 30th 2025 0

Early-career researchers sought for mentorship programme on prestigious mental health journal

Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health has launched a mentorship programme offering young people the chance to spend a year on the journal’s editorial board.…

January 30th 2025 0

This Toxic Love Affair by Ezinne Ogwumah

This edition of Muses features a moving and exceptionally vulnerable disclosure by Nigerian mental health advocate Ezinne Ogwumah, who reflects on her mental health journey and intermittent cannabis use. An addiction isn't exactly a thing one readily adm…

January 30th 2025 0

Poisonous pitohuis as pets

The latest Paper of the Month for Bird Conservation International is Poisonous pitohuis as pets and is available as open access.  In our line of work, we come across new trends in the use of wildlife.…

January 29th 2025 0

From Brexit to Environmental Destruction: Understanding Modern Britain with James Vernon

What inspired you to write a book on the history of Modern Britain? There were two motivations. I was interested in rescuing national histories from the nativism of the right. Of course, in Britain that virulent type of nationalism swept the country wit…

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