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Yearly Archives: 2019

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  • 27 Nov 2019
    Geraint Lewis

    Video: Interview with ‘Cosmic Revolutionary’ Geraint Lewis

    Interview with ‘Cosmic Revolutionary’ Geraint Lewis from CUP Academic on Vimeo.   TRANSCRIPT: Geraint Lewis: I’m Geraint Lewis and I’m a professor of astrophysics at the University of Sydney and I am the author with Luke Barnes of A Cosmic Revolutionaries Handbook (or: How to Overthrow the Big Bang)   What reader did you have […]

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  • 25 Nov 2019
    James E. Kelly

    English Convents in Catholic Europe, c.1600–1800

    Sister Mary Aloysia Joseph Wright of the English Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, Liège; oil painting

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  • 20 Nov 2019

    Did the Nazi dictatorship spell the end of privacy?

    German soldier on home leave with his family, 1942.

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  • 20 Nov 2019
    Julian Cribb

    Today’s Food System ‘Unsustainable’

    The world food system on which nearly 8 billion humans depend for their daily sustenance is at risk of disintegrating by the mid-century as global soil and water resources and climate stability fail. I lay out the case for a worldwide food revolution in ‘Food or War’. ‘We know only too well from history what […]

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  • 14 Nov 2019
    Matt Grossmann

    Did Conservatives Transform State Education Policy?

    2020 Democratic presidential candidates are attacking charter schools, education vouchers, and test-score-based teacher accountability schemes, even backtracking on their past support. Following other issue debates, education positions are polarizing along partisan and ideological lines. But unlike other areas, education polarization follows a long national move rightward—as many states increased alternatives to traditional public schools and […]

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  • 13 Nov 2019
    John W. Snedden

    10 Ways that the Gulf of Mexico “Super Basin” has Reinvented Itself

    If you want to understand how it went from being called the “Dead Sea” to the world’s most important “Super Basin”, read the new book Gulf of Mexico Sedimentary Basin: Depositional Evolution and Petroleum Applications.  This is the first comprehensive study of the basin and its petroleum endowment in almost 40 years. With an estimated […]

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  • 12 Nov 2019
    Ewout Frankema, Anne Booth

    Financing Colonial Rule in Asia and Africa

    No state can do without taxation. States need to pay for bureaucrats, soldiers, policemen, infrastructure, and the more ambitious ones also pay for schools, hospitals and social security programs. Fiscal capacity forms the backbone of the state, and both sovereign and colonial regimes confront the revenue imperative. But how, in the case of colonial rule, […]

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  • 11 Nov 2019
    Ken Carter

    Buzz: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies

    Buzz: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies is available now. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify.

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