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Julian Caldecott
On this day we consider mountain ecosystems, peoples, wild species, water and weather, and salute their vital role in sustaining life and livelihoods. We also renew our commitment to saving montane environments from the casual abuses of lowland power and ignorance
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Nikolai Bagdassarov
«The most reliable and trustworthy geophysical tool is a geological hammer!» This remarkable statement of his father, an experienced geologist, Nick Bagdassarov had to hear many times in his childhood.
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Snjólaug Árnadóttir
World leaders recently convened in Glasgow for the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Several reports have been published in past weeks discussing the successes and failures of COP26. One notable highlight is the commitment of states to a limit of 1.5°C above pre-industrialised levels, shifting […]
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Matthew Nanes
Deadlock following Iraq’s October 10th, 2021 elections shows that control over the security forces remains the country’s most important political issue. The parliamentary block led by Shia politician and militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr won a clear plurality of seats. However, a bloc of Iran-backed parties refuses to allow them to form a government. At the […]
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Shaomin Li
Studying China can be contentious. I have been in China study seminars that were as confrontational as sessions of U.S. Congress. A primary reason for the contentiousness is that people study China from different perspectives. Here are two major perspectives: the China-centric and the other-country-centric perspectives. The China-Centric Perspective This perspective emerged in the late […]
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Arieh Saposnik
Zionism is probably among the most discussed and least understood of modern national movements. The literature on it is vast and highly contested. If history is the study of change over time, the rapid transformation of what were highly improbable ideas in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth centuries—such as the establishment of a Jewish […]
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Martin E. Ford, Peyton R. Smith
The following insights are derived from Motivating Self and Others by Martin Ford and Peyton Smith. Leadership search and selection processes typically focus on positive experiences and accomplishments and on positive leadership dispositions. And yet, when leaders fail, it is usually because of negative behavior patterns that are associated with specific social, emotional and motivational […]
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Miranda A. H. Horvath, Jennifer M. Brown
May 4th, 1987 marked the beginning of a string of violent sexual attacks on women across Southern Ontario. During this time at least eighteen women across the districts of Scarborough, Peel, and St. Catharine’s were physically and sexually brutalized. Three were killed. At about 9.30 in the evening on Sunday the 7th of August 1987, […]
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Julian Caldecott
On this day we consider mountain ecosystems, peoples, wild species, water and weather, and salute their vital role in sustaining life and livelihoods. We also renew our commitment to saving montane environments from the casual abuses of lowland power and ignorance
Read More
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Nikolai Bagdassarov
«The most reliable and trustworthy geophysical tool is a geological hammer!» This remarkable statement of his father, an experienced geologist, Nick Bagdassarov had to hear many times in his childhood.
Read More
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Snjólaug Árnadóttir
World leaders recently convened in Glasgow for the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Several reports have been published in past weeks discussing the successes and failures of COP26. One notable highlight is the commitment of states to a limit of 1.5°C above pre-industrialised levels, shifting […]
Read More
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Matthew Nanes
Deadlock following Iraq’s October 10th, 2021 elections shows that control over the security forces remains the country’s most important political issue. The parliamentary block led by Shia politician and militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr won a clear plurality of seats. However, a bloc of Iran-backed parties refuses to allow them to form a government. At the […]
Read More
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Shaomin Li
Studying China can be contentious. I have been in China study seminars that were as confrontational as sessions of U.S. Congress. A primary reason for the contentiousness is that people study China from different perspectives. Here are two major perspectives: the China-centric and the other-country-centric perspectives. The China-Centric Perspective This perspective emerged in the late […]
Read More
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Arieh Saposnik
Zionism is probably among the most discussed and least understood of modern national movements. The literature on it is vast and highly contested. If history is the study of change over time, the rapid transformation of what were highly improbable ideas in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth centuries—such as the establishment of a Jewish […]
Read More
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Martin E. Ford, Peyton R. Smith
The following insights are derived from Motivating Self and Others by Martin Ford and Peyton Smith. Leadership search and selection processes typically focus on positive experiences and accomplishments and on positive leadership dispositions. And yet, when leaders fail, it is usually because of negative behavior patterns that are associated with specific social, emotional and motivational […]
Read More
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Miranda A. H. Horvath, Jennifer M. Brown
May 4th, 1987 marked the beginning of a string of violent sexual attacks on women across Southern Ontario. During this time at least eighteen women across the districts of Scarborough, Peel, and St. Catharine’s were physically and sexually brutalized. Three were killed. At about 9.30 in the evening on Sunday the 7th of August 1987, […]
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