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Nurse Ratched: Evil Nurses
Nurse Ratched is the evil nurse in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962). She is the Evil Woman as autocratic, the absolute power in a p…
5 years, 1 month ago
Royal Restoration: Estates of the Duke of Monmouth
Charles II‘s illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, became one of the most influential and powerful men at the Restoration court. He married a Scott…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Mistakes CEOs Make
We often think that leaders are particularly strong in decision making – that’s why they’ve made it to the top. But evidence shows that even senior e…
5 years, 1 month ago
Could Streaming Change the 'Classic Film' Canon?
Cinema's original canons were based on a small number of works most highly esteemed by archivists and historians. But access to the history of f…
5 years, 1 month ago
England’s Protestant Reformation
When England’s Reformation began, only a small band of idealists – or fanatics – truly wanted a Protestant England. Nevertheless, within a single lif…
5 years, 1 month ago
Computers: A History
Even the most humdrum of electrical devices nowadays contains at least one computer; yet surprisingly few people are aware of their history, their fo…
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Mathematical Structure in Fiction
Mathematical concepts have often been used to create new structural forms in fiction, as in the works of Raymond Queneau and Jorge Luis Borges.
The m…
5 years, 1 month ago
Restraining Police Restraint
We hear too often about sudden death in adults following prolonged and often unnecessary police restraint. What do people know about the dangers of r…
5 years, 2 months ago
Aristotle
Plato's most brilliant student and perhaps the most significant intellectual in world history, Aristotle of Stageira built on the doctrines he h…
5 years, 2 months ago
Cosmic Vision: Fast & Furious
Highly energetic particles from outer space travelling at the speed of light, known as cosmic rays, originate from the sites of extreme particle acce…
5 years, 2 months ago