A soap bubble on the end of a cylindrical tube is seen to deflate as the higher pressure air inside the bubble escapes through a tube. We perform an experiment to measure the radius of the slowly deflating bubble and observe...
In 1937 and 1938, as the bombing of Guernica and northern Spain increased in frequency and intensity, thousands of children boarded ships to safer residences in foreign countries. About 3,000 children, with teachers and...
We describe a series of experiments used in a sophomore-level quantum physics course that are designed to provide students with a hands-on introduction to quantum mechanics. By measuring correlations, we demonstrate that a...
Alam, Shamma Adeeb. "Parental Health Shocks, Child Labor and Educational Outcomes: Evidence From Tanzania." Journal of Health Economics 44 (2015): 161-75. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167629615001058,...
**Sharon Kingston is a professor of Psychology at Dickinson College.**
, Individuals who initiate substance use before high school are at higher risk of negative outcomes. Eighty-six young adults between the ages of 18...
The Turkish Republic that emerged from the collapsing Ottoman Empire offers an instructive example of a self-conscious deployment of history by political elites to build a nation fitting the new state. The purpose of official...
Humanity faces a number of wicked problems, from global climate change and the coronavirus pandemic to systemic racism and widening economic inequality. Since such complex and dynamic problems are plagued by disagreement among...
For more information on the published version, visit Annual Review's Website. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/citedby/10.1146/annurev-virology-091919-080047, David Kushner is a professor of Biology at Dickinson College.,...
Wahhabism has been generating controversy since it first emerged in Arabia in the 18th century. In the wake of September 11th instant theories have emerged that try to root Osama Bin Laden's attacks on Wahhabism. Muslim critics...
For more information on the published version, visit Brill's Website., An inquiry in historical sociology using textual interpretation of educational curricular documents to analyze the role assigned to Islam in the official...