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In The Social Leap , William von Hippel lays out this revolutionary hypothesis, tracing human development through three critical evolutionary inflection points to explain how events in our distant past shape our lives today. From the mundane, such as why we exaggerate, to the surprising, such as why we believe our own lies and why fame and fortune are as likely to bring misery as happiness, the im...

Attempts to constrain the spread of Covid-19 included the temporal reintroduction of travel restrictions and border controls within the Schengen area. While such restrictions clearly involve costs, their benefits have been disputed. Using a new set of daily regional data of confirmed Covid-19 cases from the respective statistical agencies of 18 Western European countries Matthias Eckardt, Kalle Ka...

Re-Creation, Fragmentation, and Resilience tells the story of post Second World War Canada by exploring ten themes key to the Canadian experience since 1945. Dimitry Anastakis helps students to look at the period not only through the lens of traditional themes such a politics and foreign policy, but also through new, innovative themes such as the environment, the family, and technology.

Outbreaks of severe virus infections with the potential to cause global pandemics are increasing. In many instances these outbreaks have been newly emerging (SARS coronavirus), re-emerging (Ebola virus, Zika virus) or zoonotic (avian influenza H5N1) virus infections. In the absence of a targeted vaccine or a pathogen-specific antiviral, broad-spectrum antivirals would function to limit virus sprea...

We live in a time of crises - economic turmoil, workplace disempowerment, unresponsive government, environmental degradation, social disintegration, and international rivalry. In The 99 Percent Economy , Paul S. Adler, a leading expert on business management, argues that these crises are destined to deepen unless we radically transform our economy.

Marius Calu investigates how the management of plurality is a fundamental element of contemporary state-building seeking to build social cohesion, while for the new-born Kosovo it stands as vital symbol for its domestic sovereignty and legitimisation. https://faculti.net/kosovo-divided/

Rick Sarre discusses the relationship between the private sector and criminal justice. The private sector has become an increasingly important 'partner' in contemporary criminal justice with the unprecedented growth of public sector 'outsourcing' arrangements. This has resulted in an increasingly pluralised and marketised landscape of contemporary criminal justice.

Problematic interactive media use (PIMU) is a real and growing health problem among children and adolescents of the digital age. In the digital age, we may have encountered a new pathology, or group of pathologies, to which we must develop a thoughtful, responsive, and structured systemic response. Children and adolescents are the sentinel cases of PIMU; they are early and enthusiastic adopters of...

Alison Carrol examines French policies to reintegrate the recovered region of Alsace into France after the First World War. As integration programs became increasingly contentious, administrators sent from Paris to Alsace read the situation through the lens of German influence. No French administrator used the term ‘national indifference’, but their worries bear a striking similarity to those expr...

For most Anglophone countries, the history of grammar teaching over the past 50 years is one of contestation, debate and dissent: and 50 years on we are no closer to reaching a consensus about the role of grammar in the English/Language Arts curriculum. Debra Myhill discusses differing perspectives on the value of grammar for the language learner and opposing views of what educational benefits lea...

Gareth Loudon discusses the physiological response of participants during a creative activity and compares the results to their physiological response during states of high attention and relaxation.

The heterogeneity of the contemporary Indian middle-class has been discussed widely. However, the effect of its internal differences on the distribution of educational resources needs to be examined systematically. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with parents in 53 middle-class families in Dehradun, India, Achala Gupta explores three aspects of the home-school relationship: how socioeconomic tran...

Mark Pennington explores the relationship between freedom, regulation, and public policy. Adopting a “non-ideal” approach, he argues that there is no necessary connection between different conceptions of liberty and any particular sort of regulatory/public policy framework. Both negative and positive conceptions of freedom require a role for “regulation,” but whether this “regulation” arises from...

Geetha Marcus presents the untold stories of Gypsy and Traveller girls living in Scotland. Drawing on accounts of the girls’ lives and offering space for their voices to be heard, the author addresses contemporary and traditional stereotypes and racialised misconceptions of Gypsies and Travellers. Marcus explores how the stubborn persistence of these negative views appears to contribute to policie...

There is evidence that in the United States popular attitudes about environmental problems have been shaped by elite polarization on environmental issues. Yet there has been little systematic analysis of the impact of elite polarization on environmental attitudes in other parts of the world. Sarah Birch discusses a general theory of the role of elite polarization in conditioning popular support fo...

Andrew Moran considers the claim that ‘change’ during the Obama years amounted to an acceptance of American global decline. It contends that sensible retrenchment should not be equated with ‘decline.’

Teaching is a complex practice that requires teachers to draw upon their content knowledge, pedagogical approaches and strategies, and knowledge about learners in order to support learning. Integrating technology into the teaching and learning practice of a classroom is a strategy that many teachers are drawing upon. Joanna Masingila reports on the initial findings on information communication tec...

For centuries elegy has been instrumental to Irish culture and its self-expression. Alison Morgan discusses the elegies both by and about Robert Emmet written by Thomas Moore, Robert Southey and Percy Bysshe Shelley as well those written by anonymous balladeers.

Robert Williams discusses how art investigates the nuclear Anthropocene, nuclear sites and materiality and the philosophical concept of radiation as a hyperobject.

Departures from self-interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of “social preferences.” Gary Charness discusses a range of simple experimental games that test these theories more directly than existing experiments. Experiments show that subjects are more concerned with increasing social welfare—sacrificing to increase the payoffs for all recipients, especially low-payoff recip...

CEOs who formerly served in the U.S. military are prevalent among U.S. firms. The military puts strong emphasis on the obedience of its personnel. Georg Wernicke discusses time spent in the military leads individuals to be more obedient to rules and regulations in the years after they have left the military and become CEOs.

Thomas Roulet discusses three “degrowth”-oriented strategies that companies can pursue to open new opportunities while benefitting the environmen. Dr Thomas Roulet , University Senior Lecturer in Organisation Theory & Information Systems at Cambridge Judge Business School. Companies can apply degrowth to product design to create products with a longer lifespan or which are locally produced. An exa...

The economics of language may not yet be a mainstream subfield of economics. In this interview, Andrew John discusses the following questions: how do economic analysis and economic reasoning provide insight into linguistic phenomena? How does economics and economic models shed light on language change ?

Adrian Piccoli discusses Ways Your Child Can Get the Best Out of School. The Honorable Adrian Piccoli served as a Member of NSW Parliament for 19 years and as the NSW Minister for Education for 6 years from 2011 until 2017. Mr Piccoli is currently the Director of UNSW’s Gonski Institute for Education.

Anthony Warrens discusses the range of outcomes reported in kidney transplantation trials. Anthony Warrens is Dean for Education and Director of the Institute of Health Sciences Education (IHSE) at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry (Barts). He is a practising consultant renal physician with a particular interest in transplantation medicine. The need for more organs for transpla...