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Individuality and history in the ‘age of iron’: Flodoard of Rheims
The decades following the demise of the Carolingian Empire in 888 were traditionally seen as a downward spiral of political fragmentation and cultural stagnation: a ‘mind-the-gap’ period between the ninth-century Carolingian achievement and th…
Lear on Screen: a vision of our times
Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear is the most recent volume in the Cambridge University Press Shakespeare on Screen series, which provides in-depth analyses of how Shakespeare’s work has been adapted on screen (interpreted broadly to include cinema, …
Why do you want to study India’s State-run Media
‘Why do you want to study India’s State-run Media?’ This question was frequently posed to me by my friends and fellow academics. For some broadcasting if not passé, is quite a mouthful, and hard to pronounce. ‘Why not study …
Indonesia’s Experiment with Specialised Courts
Indonesia’s extensive court system delivers justice for the world’s third largest democracy. The dramatic end of authoritarian rule under Suharto in 1998 ushered in two decades of law reform. Since then, the constitutional and political system…
Universal Semantic Syntax: A Semiotactic Approach
In our book Universal Semantic Syntax we provide an introduction into a unique theory of syntax, which is based on the idea that syntax is part of semantics. This theory takes a radical different approach to syntax from mainstream generative Chomskyan syn…
A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects
A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects is available now. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify.
Liberating the Left’s History
“Will Bolivia and Peru become Indian republics through communist instigation?” So asked a conservative Bolivian newspaper in 1949. Two years prior, large portions of the countryside had witnessed indigenous rebellions against forced labor, lan…
Modernist Empathy Now?
Barack Obama was the empathy president. I don’t say this simply because of some of his more famous uses of the term—for example, when he described his criteria for Supreme Court nominees in May 2009 as including “that quality of empathy,…
Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820
This book’s gestation began many years ago in the reading room of the Huntington Library. I spent a week leafing through play manuscripts from the 1790s, trying to figure out how censorship worked. As I skimmed, I couldn’t help but notice the …
The Dark Side of Molecules: Politics and Chemistry in the 20th century
When trying to choose the science and the scientists that shaped the 20th century, many think about nuclear energy and the near mythical names of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, or perhaps about the revolution caused …
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The 2019 Draft of the Business and Human Rights Treaty: Nothing left to improve?
“This post is part of the symposium that the BHRJ Blog is running on the revised binding treaty on business and human rights, which was released in July 2019.…
Watch: How do bees carry pollen?
Pollen is the main source of protein in a honey bees diet and so it’s essential that they are able to carry enough of it safely back to the hive.…
Can you dig it? Parasites influence the rates of bioturbation in lakes and rivers
The impact of parasites can often reach beyond their individual hosts, shaping populations and communities in their ecosystems. Parasites often control the behaviour of their hosts, leading to their role as “ecosystem engineers,” changing the …
Watch: Building bio-inspired vehicles to explore Mars
The air density on Mars is 1/100th of that on Earth which means that current airborne vehicles cannot be used to explore the planet.…
The Revised Draft Business and Human Rights Treaty: Taking Women’s Experiences and Women’s Human Rights Seriously
The revised draft of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group’s business and human rights treaty released on July 16, 2019 is a significant improvement on the Zero Draft in terms of its structure, coherence, and its application to all business…
Could cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) deficiency explain the extinction of the dinosaurs?
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for September is from the Journal of Nutritional Science and is entitled ‘Why did the dinosaurs become extinct? Could cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) deficiency be the answer?’.
How they did it: a Greek temple’s ruins suggest lifting machines were used 150 years earlier than previously thought
As modern Greeks undertake to reconstruct the Parthenon, largely using stone material from the site’s ruins, a question naturally arises: How did ancient Greeks construct massive temples and other buildings — lifting and placing one heavy…
Launching a new cover competition for MRS Communications
MRS Communications aims to be the premier journal for submitting the best research studies and results in a succinct research letter format along with reviews (Perspectives) that are considered vanguards of the development of their respective fields and l…
Slow Progress in Times of Dynamic Change? Feminist Perspectives on the Road to the Binding Treaty
This post is part of the symposium that the BHRJ Blog is running on the revised binding treaty on business and human rights, which was released in July 2019.…
Born-digital photography: not all prints are created equal
A few years ago, I opted to take on the overwhelming task of organizing and digitizing the records associated with the legacy collections at the Natural History Museum of Utah.…
Canadian children’s diet quality during school hours improves over 11-year period
Surveys taken 11 years apart show a 13 per cent improvement in the quality of foods consumed by Canadian children during school hours, a new study published in Public Health Nutrition has found.
Green banana biomass: a new option to improve glucose control and body composition in pre-diabetes and diabetes
A study conducted at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, and published in the British Journal of Nutrition demonstrates benefits of green banana biomass consumption in subjects with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes.