Nr 16

Terrorism: A Very Brief History

• Mats Fridlund
• Abt. III

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Nr 15

Poland's Wild Boar Targeted in Pointless Cull That Could Actually Spread Swine Fever

• Marianna Szczygielska
• Abt. III

Most of Poland’s wild boars are being culled to stop the spread of African swine fever, a deadly viral disease that endangers farm pigs. The Polish Hunting Association was mandated to organize ...

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Nr 14

Circular Economy: Ancient Populations Pioneered the Idea of Recycling Waste

• Maikel Kuijpers
• Abt. III

The circular economy is typically seen as the progressive alternative to our wasteful linear economy, where raw materials are used to make the products that feed today’s rampant consumerist hun...

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Nr 12

A Brief History of Black Holes

• Carla Rodrigues Almeida
• Abt. I

Late in 2018, the gravitational wave observatory, LIGO, announced that they had detected the most distant and massive source of ripples of spacetime ever monitored: waves triggered by pairs of ...

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Nr 10

Captive Breeding Has a Dark Side—as Disturbing Czech Discovery of Trafficked Tiger Body Parts Highlights

• Marianna Szczygielska
• Abt. III

The rotting remains of a number of tigers, lions and cougars were recently discovered in a raid on a house in Prague. This disturbing find was the culmination of a five-year investigation that ...

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Nr 9

Why Genes Don't Hold All the Answers for Biologists

• Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
• Staffan Mueller-Wille
• Dept. Rheinberger

It is still widely believed that the gene is the foundation of life—that its discovery has provided information about how all living beings are controlled by the genetic factors they inherit fr...

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Nr 8

Maths is Revolutionising the Study of History—Here's How

• Matteo Valleriani
• Abt. I

The study of history traditionally brings to mind images of dark, winding archives, and the smell of dust; visions of academics poring through piles of documents to uncover secrets and find the...

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Nr 7

Taking Poo Samples to School was an Essential Part of South Korea's Modernization

• John P. DiMoia
• Abt. III

A North Korean soldier recently escaped across the demilitarised zone, the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas, and a remnant of the July 1953 ceasefire to the Korean conflict. On h...

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Nr 6

Flying Chariots and Exotic Birds: How Seventeeth Century Dreamers Planned to Reach the Moon

• Maria Avxentevskaya
• Dept. Daston

We’ve only traveled into space in the last century, but humanity’s desire to reach the moon is far from recent. In the second century AD, Lucian’s True History, a parody of travel tales, alread...

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Nr 5

How the Catalan Economy Benefited under Franco—and What This Means for the Ongoing Stalemate

• Lino Camprubi
• Dept. Daston
• Epistemes of Modern Acoustics

Any long-term solution requires a deep understanding of the issues at stake, but the each day the situation is more puzzling to observers at home and around the world. Spaniards living abroad, ...

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Nr 4

What Yemen Can Learn from the Historical Experience of Cholera

• Edna Bonhomme
• Abt. III

War has overcome the near eradication of cholera that modern advances in medicine and international public health organisations have allowed. So how did these advances come to pass and what can...

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Nr 3

Into the Fascist Forest—A Real Italian Controversy

• Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
• Abt. III

Should we see the forest first and foremost as a forest, a natural landscape that perhaps should be restored, or as a disturbing memory of Mussolini? Ought we to recreate the forest, as a prese...

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Nr 2

"Sound of a Dog Barking": History Reveals the Significance of this North Korean Insult to Trump

• John P. DiMoia
• Abt. III

This may sound like a fairly standard put down, but in fact Ri’s language was carefully selected. In the Korean context, a comparison with a dog is deeply insulting, and this likely explains Ki...

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Nr 1

How to Live with Bears

• Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
• Abt. III

Bears have been on Europeans’ minds lately, as violent encounters with these powerful mammals make international headlines. The state must be able to guarantee local communities personal and ec...

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