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What Superheroes and US Security Are Not About
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Will the Scottish Referendum process be fair?
Four months ahead of the Scottish independence referendum, Stephen Tierney (University of Edinburgh) in an Analysis piece in the Edinburgh…
Literary Celebrity
Celebrity, publicity and authorship are common place in the 21st century and increasingly, authors are energetic in conveying their own…
Scottish Philosophy: Project and Legacy
By Gordon Graham The Scottish philosophical tradition found its richest and most influential expression in the investigations Scottish philosophers of…
A taxidermist’s working life in the 19th Century
An April article in Archives of natural history gives a fascinating insight into the life of Charles Francis Adams, a…
What does neuroscience offer to dance? What does dance offer to neuroscience?
“Dancers are experts in mental processes such as memory, timing and motor cognition, and the study of dance can provide…
Leonardo Da Vinci and Samuel Beckett – implausible bed fellows?
An Italian Renaissance polymath, most known for his notebooks and paintings, Leonardo Da Vinci is still widely considered an enigma.…
Scoring Film: An Interview with Neil Brand
Neil Brand is a well-known composer, prolific British dramatist, writer and pianist, who designed and presented a three part-series for BBC…
Robert Burns, Digital Whistle-Blowing, and the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum
By Robert Crawford For the first time since 1707 (more than half a century before Burns was born), the population…
Scottish Affairs – New to Edinburgh
February 2014 not only sees the launch of our new Journals blog, but we’re also delighted that Scottish Affairs is…