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The Veto Power and Atrocity Crimes

Some of the permanent members of the UN Security Council periodically use their veto (i.e., negative vote)—or threat of veto—to stop resolutions aimed at preventing or stopping the commission of core...

Jennifer Trahan | 8 Sep 2020

A Q&A with Charles Baukal, Jr.: A Gallery of Combustion and Fire

What inspired this book? The Central States Section of the Combustion Institute (CSSCI) has been hosting a combustion art contest at its meetings for many years.  Someone at Cambridge University...

Charles Baukal, Jr. | 4 Sep 2020

A Bird Stuck in the Sky

Co-author of The Kestrel, David Costantini, discusses why the Kestrel is so important to him and his inspiration behind co-writing a book all about them.

David Costantini | 4 Sep 2020

Stealing Poetry

“To steal a Hint was never known, But what he writ was all his own.” – Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, D.S.P.D. Part way through his most famous self-elegy,...

Daniel Cook | 3 Sep 2020

Constitutional Economics – A Primer

The economic analysis of constitutions – constitutional economics for short – has been growing fast over the last 20 years or so. Today, it has become an indispensable part of political economy, but...

Stefan Voigt | 3 Sep 2020

Labor, Poverty, and Power

Countries around the world are struggling with the economic repercussions of the pandemic, and the United States in particular has recorded levels of unemployment not seen since the Great Depression. While...

3 Sep 2020

Playing with science—studying Africa

I find the realm of science a captivating enterprise to engage in. Increasingly, the importance of science is being felt today in the ongoing Covid19 pandemic. My encounters with science started...

R. Sooryamoorthy | 2 Sep 2020

Why are there reeducation camps for Uighurs but not Tibetans in China?

Since mid-2017, reports of massive “re-education camps” in Xinjiang province have set off global outcries over the mistreatment of Muslim Uighurs in western China. Promoted as schools for deradicalization...

Yan Sun | 1 Sep 2020

Donald Trump and Joe Biden – Would You Believe Two Peas in a Pod?

The two men could hardly seem any more different. Yes, they are both male and white and Christian and heterosexual and American. They are even approximately the same age. But in that which matters most...

Todd L. Pittinsky, Barbara Kellerman | 1 Sep 2020

Are we alone in the Universe?

Wallace Arthur, author of The Biological Universe, sheds some light on one of humanity's most enduring questions.

Wallace Arthur | 31 Aug 2020

Intermediate Dynamics for Engineers, Second Edition by Oliver O’Reilly

Oliver O’Reilly of UC Berkley, joins us to discuss the writing and impact of his latest book, the 2nd edition of Intermediate Dynamics for Engineers: Newton-Euler and Lagrangian Mechanics. An important...

27 Aug 2020

Aegean Linear Script(s): Rethinking the Relationship between Linear A and Linear B

When does a continuum become a divide? This book investigates the genetic relationship between Linear A and Linear B (henceforth LA and LB), two Bronze Age scripts attested on Crete and Mainland Greece...

Ester Salgarella | 27 Aug 2020