In March of 2022, the Supreme Court addressed the “state secrets privilege,” which the government has repeatedly invoked in the post-9/11 era. This privilege is analogous to the common law attorney/client privilege, but courts...
By 1906, when Charles Lang Freer officially donated his collection to the Smithsonian, the fifty-two-year-old retired railroad industrialist had acquired thousands of objects from many parts of the globe. Although he began as a...
Through collaboration with more than 20 higher education institutions and civil society organizations, the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative put together online, open-access teaching resources that advance such a...
A liberal arts context offers unique opportunities for curricular innovation that can inform the implementation of computing curricula more broadly. The SIGCSE Committee on Computing Education in Liberal Arts Colleges has...
The English literary magazine originates in the eighteenth century. The first periodical to call itself a “magazine,” the Gentleman’s Magazine, commenced publication in 1731, and was quickly followed by the London Magazine and...
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects operate transparently, providing excellent educational opportunities for computing students to acquire and practice both technical and softer skills that are in high demand....
A Mediterranean slipper lobster, *Scyllarides latus* (Latreille, 1802), was found near Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. It was conspicuously fouled by bryozoans which is a rare occurrence for lobsters in general, including this...
This chapter traces the growth and development of the field of Haitian Studies over the past three decades, marking the end of the Duvalier dictatorship, the founding of the international Haitian Studies Association, KOSANBA...
Gregory Steirer is a professor of English and Film Studies at Dickinson College., Comics, which we will define here provisionally as non-animated series of hand-drawn sequential images, are one of the oldest modern media forms....
DeBlasio, Alyssa, and Victoria Juharyan. "Introduction: Socrates in Russia." In "Socrates in Russia", edited by Alyssa DeBlasio and Victoria Juharyan, 1-16. Leiden: Brill, 2022., For more information on the published version,...
In Eadweard Muybridge's photograph *Wildcat Falls, Valley of the Yosemite* (Figure 1.1), a waterfall rushes toward the foreground; the photographer must have been perched precariously on one of the well-worn rocks that frame...
The United Nations 2015 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for Gender Equality is one of the more recent examples of more than a century of global-level codification and commitment to the rights of women and equality of the...
We've all experienced, from time to time, a kind of compulsive web surfing in which we follow link after link, browsing content that becomes less and less relevant to the task at hand. This happened to me only yesterday: while...
Dan Schubert is a professor of Sociology at Dickinson College., Elizabeth Lewis is a professor of Educational Studies at Dickinson College., Schubert, Dan, and Elizabeth C. Lewis. "The Obsolescence of Freedom? Inequality,...
"The chief thing is the happy conviction that you carry away with you--the conviction that Sevastopol cannot be taken, and not only that it cannot be taken, but that it is impossible to shake the spirit of the Russian people...
A professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh for more than 40 years, Robert Brandom has written extensively and insightfully on a wide range of topics, including language, mind, logic, norms, freedom, philosophical...
The Bryozoan Skeletal Index (BSI) is a measure of the relative proportion of skeleton to open space in stenolaemate bryozoans. Here the measure is calculated for the Families of the Suborder Rhabdomesina of the Order...
What does it mean to be the Socrates of Soviet philosophy, as Georgian-born philosopher Merab Mamardashvili has been called? More broadly, what does it mean to be a Socrates in Russia at all? Mamardashvili was known primarily...
The goal of this project is to describe the application of Synchrotron Radiation Micro-Computed Tomography (SRμCT) for three-dimensional imaging of fossil cheilostome bryozoan colonies. The technology is applied to the...