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31/03/2014 - 14:22

It’s true that the scope of psychiatry has greatly expanded over the past century. A hundred years ago, the profession had a near-exclusive... →

26/03/2014 - 18:24

While well-intentioned, this position is flawed on several counts. First, if the far right must be spared until Vladimir Putin stops his... →

21/03/2014 - 15:51

By comparison to the world of physics, the methods and theory of comparative genomics and evolutionary biology are used to investigate the... →

15/03/2014 - 16:23

In the school’s cocoon of communal living, Kat is thrown into the social kaleidoscope of the typical Soviet classroom: the child of the... →

09/03/2014 - 14:20

With no legal standing here, those who managed to avoid arrest and deportation had to fend for themselves, working off the books for low... →

04/03/2014 - 13:59

Exporting Obesity and Diabetes: NAFTA and the Health of Mexico Constructing an alternative to hyperconsumption and its disease burden will... →

27/02/2014 - 15:13

So does gender affect the brain or not? “Of course it does, but it’s not the only factor. That’s why it’s impossible to know exactly how it... →

20/02/2014 - 19:06

The New York exhibit (and before that, the exhibition in Washington) features artifacts from the archive that were rescued. Next summer,... →

14/02/2014 - 13:59

In Israel, too, at that time, the subject of the Holocaust was avoided. It did not fit the image of the “new Jew.” Yes. In the period when... →

07/02/2014 - 15:28

*** That al-Husaini was a radical anti-Semite is not the real news in Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East. We knew... →

03/02/2014 - 17:07

In the Fifties, St Albans – a direct-grant public school with a small complement of boarders – perfectly reflected the upwardly mobile... →

24/01/2014 - 17:50

Equations aren't the only hints of mathematics that are built into nature: there are also numbers. As opposed to human creations like the... →

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