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Anthropology

On Science and Civilisation in China

Shellen Wu

From the time the first volumes of Science and Civilisation in China were published in the 1950s, it forced the world to acknowledge early Chinese scientific and technological achievements.

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Linguistics

On Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

Anna Maria Di Sciullo

In the first essay for a new series on landmark texts, Anna Maria Di Sciullo revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic Aspects on the Theory of Syntax.

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Archaeology

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The Footsteps of Artemis

Denis Knoepfler

After a centuries-long search, archeologists finally located a lost sanctuary for Artemis. Clues came in the form of ancient manuscripts, Apollonian symbolism, wandering stones, and a scribal error…

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Mathematics

At Lunch with Freeman Dyson

William Press

The prisoner’s dilemma, played once, involves limited strategy. But consider the iterated prisoner’s dilemma. Using information from the previous plays, each player can try to outwit their accomplice.

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Biology

Mathematical Virology

Reidun Twarock

Models of viral geometry help explain how viruses spread and evolve, and can point the way to novel antiviral solutions. Reidun Twarock shares her work on the icosahedral symmetry of virus casings.

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Physics

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Black Holes and Quantum Gravity

Aurélien Barrau

The search for a quantum theory of gravitation is seen as one of the most difficult and important problems in theoretical physics. Might black holes provide a key? Aurélien Barrau makes their case.

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Linguistics

Babbling Birds

Riny Huybregts

At first sight, the chestnut-crowned babbler’s capacity to communicate seems comparable to the way humans form words from phonemes. Should this claim be taken seriously, or is this one for the birds?

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Linguistics

The Arabic Grammatical Tradition

Kees Versteegh

In large parts of the Islamic world, children are taught Classical Arabic, which can differ greatly from their local dialect. Kees Versteegh recounts the history of teaching Classical Arabic grammar.

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Physics

Between Two Evils

Mikhail Shifman

When scientists fled to the USSR to escape Nazism, the Western press followed in detail with the information at hand. But the reality was much worse than they could have imagined.