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  • 23 Dec 2020
    Simon Friederich

    Are We Living in a Multiverse? Why We Might – and Why We Might Never Know

    Simon Friederich, author of Multiverse Theories: A Philosophical Perspective discusses the “multiverse” idea. What the idea entails and whether it can truly be tested.

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  • 18 Dec 2020
    Alexander Menrisky

    Eco vs. Ego: Environmentalism, Identity, and Psychological Vocabulary

    In the age of environmental justice, we tend to readily grasp how closely environmental challenges are intertwined with matters of identity along lines of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and other social forms. Still, the implications of the fact that modern American environmentalism emerged in the 1960s at the same political moment as more explicitly identity-based movements (like Women’s Liberation or Black Power) has gone largely unexamined. To what extent did that period’s debates about identity (personal as well as collective) influence environmental art and politics? And what role has literature played in mediating this relationship?

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  • 17 Dec 2020
    Anne Stiles

    Breaking Glad: Positive Thinking and the President in the Time of COVID-19

    What do Oprah Winfrey, Anne of Green Gables, Norman Vincent Peale, and United States President Donald Trump have in common? These individuals, real and fictional, embrace a nineteenth-century new religious movement known as New Thought that is related to Mary Baker Eddy’s Christian Science.

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  • 14 Dec 2020
    José Luis Bermúdez

    How Framing Effects Can Be Your Friend

    It’s a robust finding that people react differently to meat depending on how it is labeled. In well-known experiments subjects rated ground beef that was 25% lean as both higher quality and significantly less greasy than ground beef labeled as 75% fat. And then in follow-up studies when subjects were actually given samples to taste, […]

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  • 14 Dec 2020
    Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall

    Christianity Matters in American Law and Jurisprudence

    Since the first English settlements in North America, Christianity and its sacred text have had a significant influence on American jurisprudence. This reflects Christianity’s imprint on Western legal traditions in general and the English common law in particular. Early colonial laws, especially in New England’s Puritan commonwealths, drew extensively from biblical sources as interpreted within […]

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  • 10 Dec 2020
    Mazyar Kanani, Simon Lammy

    Surgical Training Requires Relentless, Forward, Progress

    “to study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all” Sir William Osler, 1849-1919 It is always a pleasure to see a patient as a doctor. It is even more rewarding to see that patient, assess their clinical need, request […]

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  • 10 Dec 2020
    Ivana Maric, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz), Osvaldo Simeone

    Information Theoretic Perspectives on 5G Systems and Beyond

    The editors of Information Theoretic Perspectives on 5G Systems and Beyond discuss their new book which provides a detailed overview of the state-of-art approaches that led to realization of 5G.

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  • 4 Dec 2020
    Robert H. Bates

    The Nature of Polities in the Developing World

    When faced with phenomena that we find difficult to understand, we often turn to the past. Our understanding of the latter enables us to frame and dissect the events unfolding before us. I am a political scientist and I study development. But in contrast to many, when doing so, I turn to the past. For […]

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