Author: john
Guest post by Brian Southwell In late July 2013, Twitter posts regarding Prince George, the latest addition to the British royal family, outpaced those related to climate change by more than a 10 to 1 margin, according to the social media measurement site Topsy.com. One might argue that this signals the doom of our planet, as…
Guest post by Phillip K. Peterson, M.D. All adults—even doctors when they become patients—are faced with decisions about diagnostic tests and treatments. One of the biggest controversies in recent years in the arena of diagnostic testing has been the value of the blood test for prostate specific antigen (PSA) as a screening tool for prostate…
Guest post by Phillip K. Peterson, M.D. All adults—even doctors when they become patients—are faced with decisions about diagnostic tests and treatments. One of the biggest controversies in recent years in the arena of diagnostic testing has been the value of the blood test for prostate specific antigen (PSA) as a screening tool for prostate…
Guest post by John L. Koprowski Just across the pond in Belfast, Northern Ireland, more than a thousand mammalogists are attending the 11th International Mammalogical Congress from August 11-16, 2013, which is hosted by Queen’s University. This large international congregation brings together one species of social mammal (Homo sapiens) interested in other mammals as model systems for…
Guest post by John L. Koprowski Just across the pond in Belfast, Northern Ireland, more than a thousand mammalogists are attending the 11th International Mammalogical Congress from August 11-16, 2013, which is hosted by Queen’s University. This large international congregation brings together one species of social mammal (Homo sapiens) interested in other mammals as model systems for…
By Tashina Gunning, Project MUSE Summer is the time of the year that those of us at Project MUSE begin to get a clearer idea of what our upcoming year will look like. By August, most of our new journal titles have been confirmed, and the ink is drying on contracts with our new publishers.…
By Tashina Gunning, Project MUSE Summer is the time of the year that those of us at Project MUSE begin to get a clearer idea of what our upcoming year will look like. By August, most of our new journal titles have been confirmed, and the ink is drying on contracts with our new publishers.…
Guest post by Debra Hamel Herodotus’s History of the Persian Wars tells the story of the expansion of Persia under four kings: Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes. The Empire's armies began rolling west in the mid-sixth century B.C., absorbing numerous civilizations as they did so, headed toward a seemingly inevitable collision with the tiny city-states…
Guest post by Debra Hamel Herodotus’s History of the Persian Wars tells the story of the expansion of Persia under four kings: Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes. The Empire's armies began rolling west in the mid-sixth century B.C., absorbing numerous civilizations as they did so, headed toward a seemingly inevitable collision with the tiny city-states…
Chapter and Verse is a series that features JHU Press authors and editors discussing the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. Guest post by Erwin F. Cook The following is excerpted from the Food for Thought Lecture Professor Cook originally presented at Trinity University on…