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Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South is available now. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify.
Facing Financial Regulation
Over recent decades, financial markets have led the global economy into a number of major collapses while contributing significantly to both economic inequality and political instability, yet regulatory approaches have not fundamentally changed their cour…
Markets and Morals: Justifying Kidney Sales and Legalizing Prostitution
Should prostitution, or the buying and selling of sexual services, be legalized? Similarly for the monetary exchanges of many other controversial items like kidneys and other organs, blood, surrogate motherhood, line sitting/standing, etc. Should essentia…
Queer Theory Now and the Pleasure of Movement
Queer theory emerged in the midst of crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s: as the HIV/AIDS epidemic raged, scholars and activists sought to disrupt the stigmatization and erasure of LGBTQ lives in the Reagan/Thatcher era. In centering sexuality within…
Digital innovation and entrepreneurship: bridging the skills gap
The technology start-up sector is booming. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor estimates that more than a million tech start-ups are created worldwide each year, and that these contribute to a dynamic $3 trillion ecosystem. In the UK and the USA, the digi…
Sustainability through knowledge, innovation, and optimism, not fear and pessimism
Global environmental issues were identified as a crisis in the 1960’s (1). The alarmist rhetoric caught the public’s attention, but stimulated a pessimistic attitude (2) that human beings were destabilizing an otherwise harmonious, “stea…
Magnetohydrodynamics: Classical physics for the 21st century (and beyond!)
Modern astrophysical research is truly entering a new era: one where the prominent role of magnetic fields is no longer ignored. For decades, entire branches of astrophysics would dismiss inclusion of magnetic fields in their descriptions of our universe,…
Is Your Brain Dysfunctional?
The neuroscientist Kent Kiehl – popularly known as the “psychopath whisperer” – thinks that many psychopaths have brain dysfunctions that explain their violent behavior. Famously, he served as an expert witness on the defense of ra…
What is the relationship between reason and emotion?
Reason and emotion are often supposed to be at odds with each other. From one perspective, our emotions are like unruly toddlers, demanding and whimsical, that need to be held in check by the adult intellect. From another perspective, the rational mind is…
Reading the Bible Theologically
The Christian Bible, the best-selling book of all time, is read by many people in many different ways. For example, it is possible to read it with an eye toward how it has formed Western culture. A few years ago, on the four hundredth anniversary of the K…
Cambridge Core
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Contemporary European Historians on Brexit
The upshot of this roundtable cannot be easily reduced to a political headline, and that is precisely the point. Serious history rarely works that way.
Why (not) Feathers? Period Hands and Material Encounters in Colonial Peru
My article on feather-work in colonial Peru shows, above all, that we should no longer differentiate between non-literate (material) Native Americans with feathers on their heads and literate Europeans with feathers in their hands. Far more important shou…
Profile: Mrs Lee Cheng Ean, University Librarian, National University of Singapore
Mrs Lee Cheng Ean has been the University Librarian at the National University of Singapore, which is ranked 11th in the QS World University Rankings (2019), for more than four years. She therefore holds one of the world’s most prestigious lib…
Reconstructing Our World in 4D: Advances in Palaeogeography Special Issue
The latest special issue “Advances in Palaeogeography” in Geological Magazine presents a collection of ten articles widely addressing a range of new and important topics within the field of palaeogeography.…
When Civilian Oversight is ‘Civil’: Parliamentary Oversight of the Military in Belgium and New Zealand
This post by Philippe Lagassé and Stephen M. Saideman is based on their article in the February 2019 issue of the European Journal of International Security (EJIS).…
Where is my home? – Finding a place for parasites in food web representations
When we think about food webs, it is rare that parasites are the first group of species that comes to mind; most likely because of their small size and their cryptic nature.…
MRS Advances Editor’s Choice for Free Access
MRS Advances is community driven, basing our special issue topics on feedback from the community that participates in the Materials Research Society meetings. We look to Society members to propose topics that matter to their materials field and apply a sp…
Can we drink pure fruit juice instead of eating whole fruit?
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for January is from the British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled ‘Pure fruit juice and fruit consumption and the risk of CVD: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition–Netherl…
How to increase litter size in rabbits?
The animal article of the month for March is ‘Correlated responses on litter size traits and survival traits after two-stage selection for ovulation rate and litter size in rabbits’ Litter size is the most important economic tra…
Q&A with the new Editor-in-Chief of Genetics Research, Marc Tischkowitz
What do you think is distinctive about Genetics Research? It is one of the oldest genetics journals, having been founded only a few years after the discovery of DNA and some very famous geneticists have published in it.…
Cambridge University Press signs major UK Open Access deal
Cambridge University Press has agreed a Read and Publish deal with Jisc Collections, which will help UK universities and colleges make a sustainable transition to publishing Open Access content in our Cambridge journals.…
As Governance Evolves, So Should Our Tools for Studying It
Decision making in highly contentious public policy domains can become mired in political conflict, leaving important policy problems unaddressed. To remedy this, public agencies across levels of government are experimenting with non-traditional governanc…
Cambridge Medicine
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Introducing Six New Business-Oriented Themes
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Announcing Newspack by WordPress.com — A New Publishing Solution for News Organizations
We're teaming up with Google, Lenfest, Civil funder ConsenSys, and Knight to develop a next-generation publishing platform.
Customize Your WordPress.com Dashboard
We’re happy to announce new improvements to your WordPress.com dashboard for a more accessible and customized experience. From your desktop, you can now customize your dashboard by choosing one of our two new color schemes, Classic Bright for a fres…
Introducing the 2019 ‘Anything Is Possible’ List
WordPress.com's inaugural New Year’s list celebrates the people and organizations who are using the web to make the world a better place.
New Theme: Twenty Nineteen
Meet Twenty Nineteen, the brand new WordPress default theme.
Now Available in the Mobile Apps: Revision History
Track changes and edits from whatever device you're using.
Announcing Free .blog Subdomains
A great site deserves a great address on the web. Now you can use a free .blog subdomain on WordPress.com.
WordPress Support Workshops for Women in the Asia-Pacific Region
We're offering free workshops to encourage women in the Asia-Pacific Region to apply for a career in WordPress Support.
Setting Up Your Site on a Mobile Device Just Got a Lot Easier
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A New Way to Manage Your Pages on the WordPress Mobile Apps
An update to WordPress for iOS and Android.