Ethnicity in Afghanistan
Anthropologist Thomas Barfield on the role of ethnicity in state-building, nationalism and practical politics ...
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anthropology
October 4, 2015
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October 1, 2015
Winner’s Curse
Neuroeconomist Samuel McClure on the ultimatum game, overbidding, and the neural basis of competitiveness
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chemistry
September 28, 2015
Computational Methods in Chemistry
Chemist Mark Tuckerman on the laws of motion, observables, and the Monte-Carlo approach
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Climate
September 25, 2015
Climate Modelling
Climatologist Thomas Stocker on climate simulations, reaching limits of adaptation, and the 'business as usual...
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physics
September 21, 2015
Thinking Outside the Simulation Box
Cosmologist Avi Loeb on mainstream science, Bell labs, and the importance of having diverse ideas
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medicine
September 18, 2015
Prediction of Patient Deterioration
Biomedical Engineer Thomas Heldt on preventive patient care, patterns of disease progression, and quantifying ...
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history
September 16, 2015
Inquisition Archives
Historian Carlo Ginzburg on forbidden books, the depletion of the Central Archive, and a letter to the Pope
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neuroscience
September 14, 2015
Neurophilosophy and Moral Values
Neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland on altruism, the hormone of sociality, and moral dilemmas
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September 11, 2015
The Thirty Years’ War (1914-1945)
Historian Jay Winter on the article 231 of the Peace Treaty of 1918, the godfather of Chinese communism, and t...
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economics
September 9, 2015
The global financial crisis: two camps
Economist Assaf Razin on financial deregulation, risk-shifting behaviour and the Philips curve
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Space
September 4, 2015
Search for Life in Solar Vicinity
Astronomer Jean-Loup Bertaux on the Doppler Shift, HARPS-spectrograph, and the habitable zone.
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history
September 3, 2015
Before Command: The Russian Economy from Emancipat...
Historian Paul Gregory on the agrarian crisis hypothesis, smychka, and the agricultural performance of Siberia
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