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People v. The Court: The Next Revolution in Constitutional Law
In People v. The Court, I argue that American democracy is broken and that the Supreme Court’s constitutional doctrine is a key factor contributing to democratic decay. The book charts a path for revolutionary changes in constitutional law that coul…
Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare
This book has been fun and also somewhat liberating to write. To explain this we have to tell the story of how the book came about. We are all corpus linguists, i.e. we use specialist software to study the use of language in very large datasets, or corpor…
What does it take to train a child and adolescent psychiatrist?
Third edition of Seminars in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a major revision which was long overdue given that the second edition was published 20 years ago. That was around the same time I started working as a child and adolescent psychiatrist in the…
Liquid Languages – Or: Are Languages an Imagination from the Age of Print Literacy?
Languages appear to us as self-evident truths in the world. Until recently, the definition of what is a language seemed to be relatively straightforward: a language is what people from the same culture, living in the same territory, use to communicate wit…
My first encounter with number theory
The basso continuo of these essays is Euclid’s algorithm. The author wants readers to discover that almost every page contains the algorithm either visibly or implicitly or in disguised forms. Readers should eventually be amazed that the algori…
Variations on a Marian Theme in Late Medieval Orvieto
In the twelfth through fourteenth centuries, at the height of the cult of the Virgin Mary, a rare and rich conflux of past and present events, both authentic and legendary, catapulted Orvieto into the spotlight as a political, religious, and intellectual …
Securing Democracies in an Age of Instability
In 1947, Winston Churchill—no longer Prime Minister but still sparring from the backbenches—famously quipped that democracy is “the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried.”&nb…
How Activists and Lawyers are Reshaping the Who and the How of Korean and Japanese Policymaking
My new book, From Manners to Rules: Advocating for Legalism in South Korea and Japan, challenges the conventional wisdom that law and courts play marginal roles in Korean and Japanese politics. In the book, I document the emergence of legalistic approache…
The Two Zolas
Émile Zola’s Le Rêve—The Dream, in English—appeared in book form in October 1888. It was a strikingly slender novel, by Zola’s standards—the shortest of the twenty volumes that would make up his epic series about…
Uncovering the linguistic rules at play in internet memes
During the 2022 Oscars ceremony, actor Will Smith famously walked onto the stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock across the face, in response to a joke about the former’s wife. Pictures of the slap soon went viral and entered meme lore, with people…
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Balancing Act: How Starch and β-Hydroxybutyrate Affect Hindgut Fermentation in Early Lactation Cows
The paper “The effect of abomasal infusion of corn starch and β-hydroxybutyrate on hindgut microbial fermentation kinetics in early lactating dairy cows measured by the in vitro gas production technique“, published in The Journa…
On the puzzling geography of blowguns
You may be familiar with the blowgun, which appears as a five-minute DIY, life-saving weapon in some popular movies and series (e.g.,…
Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
Happy 100th Birthday Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics celebrates its centenary in 2025, but we should update how we teach it, say Cambridge authors Asma Al-Qasimi and Daniel F. V. James.
CUP – Skibidi, delulu, tradwife are new words in the Cambridge Dictionary
How does a word earn its place in the dictionary? The Cambridge Dictionary has just welcomed a handful of internet-famous slang terms into its pages.…
A Tiny Stowaway with a Big Story: Discovering a New Galápagos Tapeworm
The Galápagos Islands are famous for inspiring Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection — their unique plants and animals have been studied for over a century.…
JFM Q&A with Daniel Chung
Daniel Chung – University of Melbourne has recently been appointed as an editorial board member of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. To celebrate, they participated in a Q&A with the Journal.
Can dietary additives in combination be potentiated to help laying hens at an advanced age?
Genetic advances have made it possible for commercial laying hen lines to remainlonger in production. However, after peak production, due to a series of physiological and hormonal changes with age, there will naturally be a decline in performance and egg …
Whey to Grow: Uncovering the Potential of Whey Protein in Broiler Nutrition
Could an overlooked dairy by-product hold the key to more efficient poultry production? Our recent study, selected as Paper of the Month by The Journal of Agricultural Science, explored this very question using a model-based meta-analytic approach.
Vulture capitalism: how black markets for black magic threaten African vultures
In Africa, poisoning related to pastoralism has been identified as a major driver of vulture declines, and mass vulture mortality events have occurred at poisoned carcasses illegally left by livestock herders to target carnivores.
