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On July 9, 2011, it was announced with great fanfare that South Sudan had become the world’s newest nation state. As new countries are wont to do, that very day President Salva Kiir promulgated a new Constitution, the Transitional Constitution of the Republic of South Sudan. With substantial input from international actors and academics, the […]
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Lasers...'a solution looking for a problem'? Gregory J. Gbur author of Mathematical Methods for Optical Physics and Engineering, 2011 debunks this early misconception with a clear explanation of what a laser is, and exactly how it works!
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The Mughals of India – eponym of grandeur, source of the word ‘mogol’ – what kinds of records did they keep, and where did they keep them? For decades, this question has plagued historians of South Asia and the Islamic world. The Mughal dynasty, descended from the fearsome Mongol ruler Chinggiz Khan on one side […]
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• How can we analyze the interaction of a social movement with the state, allies and antagonists without reducing the process only to its public and contentious dimensions? • How can we put strategy making in a collective and historical perspective? In my book The Poor’s Struggle for Political Incorporation, I show that the answer […]
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From Einstein to Maiman and beyond. Gregory J. Gbur author of Mathematical Methods for Optical Physics and Engineering, 2011 introduces the major personalities involved in the conception and development of the laser.
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has the dubious honor of being among the most visible focal points for conflicted U.S. attitudes toward the international legal order. Tensions between the U.S. and the ICC, never entirely absent, have now been renewed after the ICC Appeals Chamber authorized the long-delayed investigation into alleged war crimes committed during […]
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To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first laser Joseph Braat co-author of Imaging Optics, 2019 describes his personal experiences in applied physics research dealing with lasers as special light sources and the enormous and unexpected impact of Maiman's discovery.
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(Or granddaughter, sister, patient, client, student or friend) The Body Image Book for Girls is out September 10th, 2020. Read more about the book here! Conventional wisdom suggests that parents should sit their kids down before they are teenagers for “the talk.” The birds, the bees, relationships, and safe sex should all be on the […]
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