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Computer Science

The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders

Krzysztof Apt

Little known outside his field, Edsger Dijkstra was a highly influential and often controversial figure in computer science. He was a pioneer and a genius whose work shaped the field like few others.

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Astronomy

Andalusian Astronomy in the Eleventh Century

Julio Samsó

The eleventh-century astronomer Ibn al-Zarqālluh has been long established as the most important astronomer of the Islamic West. His ideas remained influential in Europe into the fifteenth century.

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Medicine

The COVID Conversation

Sandro Galea

Policymakers and the media have reacted hastily to COVID-19 research, and not always for the best. Scientific researchers now have new responsibilities to contextualize their findings for the public.

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Medicine

Inequality and Instability in the Time of COVID-19

Walter Scheidel

COVID-19 has widened fault lines between the advantaged and disadvantaged. Yet while many past crises leveled inequality, stabilizers in the modern economy may prevent social and policy reform.

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Medicine

Digital Contact Tracing in South Korea

Jae Chun Choe

South Korea has impressively managed its COVID-19 crisis without lockdowns, roadblocks, or immigration controls. This is only possible given rapid and effective testing and contact tracing systems.

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Mathematics

Exponential Growth

Sheldon Lee Glashow

Exponential growth features frequently in epidemiological projections. Because of carelessness or ignorance, its implications can be easily, and sometimes grievously, underestimated.

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Physics

The Yang–Mills Model

Sheldon Lee Glashow

A great master of theoretical physics reviews the development of the first and greatest non-abelian gauge theory and its role in the construction of the Standard Model of particle physics.

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Physics

Hot Wired

Brian Miller & Jeremy England

Jeremy England argues that descendants of the Crooks fluctuation theorem play a role in explaining life’s origin. Brian Miller is equally persuaded that these theorems are of little relevance.

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Linguistics

Misused Terms in Linguistics

Evelina Leivada

Many terms in linguistics are often used incorrectly or incoherently. Evelina Leivada points to ten of the very terms that linguists have learned to love, striking evidence that love is often blind.

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ISSN #2576–4403