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The Story of Mass Incarceration
This book tells the story of mass incarceration through the eyes of the writers who lived through it. Long before Michelle Alexander characterized mass incarceration as the new Jim Crow in America, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was in jail protesting Jim Cr…
Universal Biology
What is life, or are there universal properties of living systems? More than 80 years ago, Schrödinger published his seminal monograph What is Life? in which he predicted the nature of DNA as an information-carrying molecule and discussed the signifi…
Are beer and law connected? Of course!
When you mix prized home-crafted beer brewed by a professor of law with long-suffering colleagues prepared to regularly be used as a tasting panel for new types of beer, you may get a lot of creative ideas and may even end up with a book entitled ‘B…
Distilling the Complexities and Rapid Evolution of Climate Change Litigation
In response to insufficient climate action from the legislative and executive branches of government, there has been a marked rise in litigation as a key means of ensuring accountability and advancing climate responses. With more than 2,500 climate-relate…
Our Plastic Brains & Ezra Pound’s Dangerous Conversion
“Any judgement of MUSSOLINI will be in a measure an act of faith, it will depend on what you believe the man means, what you believe that he wants to accomplish.” — Ezra Pound, Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935). Poet Ezra Pound was a cha…
Leibniz Beyond Mathematics: Founding the Political Theory of German Idealism
G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716) is renowned for his groundbreaking work in mathematics, but among his many accomplishments he was also a mining engineer, an inventor, and a pioneer of historical linguistics. His innovations as a political theorist are less …
In the Shadow of the Vatican
“We will have to undertake one of the most difficult tasks facing the Church in our day,” wrote Cline Paden, the young pastor of the non-denominational, evangelical Church of Christ in Brownfield, Texas, before departing for Italy in late 1948…
Beyond Colonialism: The Long Shadow of War in Latin America’s Development
Capable states that enforce the rule of law, secure property rights, and provide public goods are prerequisites for development, but where do they originate? Last year’s Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to scholars who argued for the role of col…
The debate on the European Court of Human Rights: lessons from history
The debate on the European Court of Human Rights is back – if it ever left in the first place. After a decade-long push to move toward increased subsidiarity, the most recent stage in the debate entails several states signing a letter to the Court c…
From Trade-offs to Intelligence: Supply Chain Management in the World of AI
Supply chain management has often been perceived as the practice of having the right product, at the right time, in the right place, to meet market demand without holding excess inventory. Naturally, such a view makes its ultimate objective the perfect ma…
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CUP and LSA announce the launch of the Journal of Black Language and Culture
Cambridge University Press and the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) are excited to announce that Cambridge University Press will publish the Society’s new Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC) from 2027.…
The secrets of espresso brewing
During the brewing process of an espresso, hot water flows through a cylindrical filter that is densely packed with coffee grounds. Along the way, chemicals are extracted such that the liquid leaving the filter is not pure water anymore, but espresso. The…
Assessing Populations with Access to National Cancer Institute-Funded Sites Using Local Distance-based Service Areas
Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the U.S., but thanks in part to research, cancer mortality has dropped by more than a third over the past three decades. That research is founded on willing patients having access to research opportunities li…
Journal of Dairy Research: Meet the New Editor-in-Chief Nick Jonsson
The Journal of Dairy Research (JDR) is special. It is owned by the Hannah Dairy Research Foundation, a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) SC007058. Although the Editor in Chief has complete independence from the HDRF, the Foundation is i…
Apps are making personalised health advice possible – but what do people think about their privacy risks?
Image Credit: Unsplash/Luke Chesser Personalised recommendations for goods and services are increasingly common, from algorithms that tailor social media content to individual users to adverts that adapt to purchase histories.…
First-morning urine: a simpler way to track your salt and potassium?
The paper “Estimating sodium and potassium intakes in a Portuguese adult population: can first-morning void urine replace 24-hour urine samples?…
The Franco-German Brigade: A Mirror of Integration—and Its Limits
When the Franco-German Brigade (FGB) was established in 1989, it was hailed as a unique experiment in postwar Europe. Never before had soldiers from two former enemies served permanently under a shared command structure in times of peace.…
Political Disinformation on the Eve of Reform
The ‘Vote Leave’ or ‘Brexit’ bus which toured the UK in 2016 plastered with the blunt assertion ‘We send the EU £350 million a week’ is an infamous recent example of political disinformation.…
The IVF Pioneers: Who Really Wrote Their Autobiography?
This blog post is about the author’s recent paper in Medical History, The ghostwriter and the test-tube baby: a medical breakthrough story For 45 years A Matter of Life has provided the standard account of the science and medicine behind the sens…
Trust and the French revolutionary cahiers of 1789
The French Revolution is more obviously associated with paranoid and deadly suspicion than with trust, but it was in the pervasive desire to rebuild a political system that could be trustworthy that much of that suspicion was born.…
