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3 days ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The Amazing Adventure You Can’t Take (Big Think)by Frank JacobsIn theory, the world’s longest train route can take you all the way from Portugal, through Mongolia, to Singapore. The reality is a lot more complicated.
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6 days ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. All over the world, small groups of people maintain traditions that have lasted centuries, traveling with herds of animals from one place to another. In 2018, researchers María E. Fernández-Giménez, Ahmed El Aich, Oussama El Aouni, Ilhame Adrane, and Soufiane El Aayadi observed and interviewed members of the Ilemchane people of Morocco.
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1 week ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In 1542, Protestant reformers including John Calvin himself took power in the city of Geneva, turning it into a center of the Reformation.
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1 week ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Around 2008, the Anglophone media noticed something interesting happening in Moscow. Dogs were taking the metro, purposefully riding up and down escalators, taking their place in train cars alongside human passengers, and disembarking at destinations where friendly food stall operators had snacks on offer.
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1 week ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Seeing Justice in a Grain of Sand (Noema)by Christine J. WinterIn the tradition that flows from the European Enlightenment, justice is something owed to individual humans, and sometimes human communities. What would it look like to envision every part of the world, including sand, as deserving of just relationships? What Will Happen to American Science? (Undark)by C.
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1 week ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. At the peak of their success in 1259, the Mongol people numbered under a million, yet they ran an empire that covered a huge part of the world, including most of Russia, China, and Iran. And, as historians Paul D. Buell and Judith Kolbas write, they did it without abandoning their nomadic lifestyle.
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2 weeks ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The question of what to eat is always tied up with complicated social and economic forces. As historian Utsa Ray writes, in the Bengal region of India during British occupation and after independence, middle-class Hindus turned to cuisine as a symbol of a rooted yet cosmopolitan existence.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Livia Gershon
2 hours agoThe world of Satyajit Ray: 5 characters that define his literary legacyOn Satyajit Ray’s birthday, we look beyond the camera lens and into the pages of his stories, where detectives, scientists, and spirits …5 hours agoMamata Banerjee has divided the BJP. All it took was a temple inauguration and Dilip GhoshMamata Banerjee has learnt the rule of the game: There are no permanent friends or enemies in politics.
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2 weeks ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. From Ma and Pa Kettle to Deliverance (Smithsonian Magazine)by Alice GeorgeThe word “hillbilly” first arrived in print 125 years ago. The people, or caricatures of the people, to whom it referred became important figures in American culture, defining both authenticity and backwardness.
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3 weeks ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The Philosopher and the Lab Mice (Nautilus)by Eva MeijerBiologists use mice as convenient models for learning lessons that may also apply to humans. But what about considering the mice on their own terms? A philosopher investigates what they want for themselves and how they relate to each other. The Return of Psychosurgery?
