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“Can We Trust Science from China?” Observations around the Ascent of a New Power Player
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Historicizing the Reproducibility Crisis
MorePutting Knowledge to Practice: “Reading” Agricultural Terraces in Medieval Palestine
This project critically examines peasant knowledge and practice in land use in the medieval Levant through a combination of archaeological and textual
Visualizations of the Planets in the Graeco-Roman World (ca. 300 BCE-600 CE)
Using texts and images, this project explores the ways in which the planets were imagined and visually represented in the Graeco-Roman world in a diac
A Scholarly Way of Life in the Making, 1470–1630
How do ways of life emerge, and how are they transformed? Ways of life are essential to any historical description of a given society, yet we have har
The Logic of Experience in the Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Tradition
Following Arabic interpretations of Aristotelian logic, medieval Hebrew logicians considered things apprehended directly by the senses or by the intel
Internationalization or Centralized Control? Managing International Research Cooperation with Chinese Characteristics
The world’s largest radio telescope, a lunar rover on the dark side of the moon, an international ethical scandal caused by gene-editing of human embr
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Turbulent Transmissions: The Public Roles of Chinese Scientists in the Covid-19 Crisis
Many months into the 2020 global COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the exact origin of the virus remains unknown. Although it is commonly agreed that th
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Chinese scientists played important roles in uncovering some of the mysteries surrounding early cases of COVID-19, and as transmitters of information