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4 days ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. “Democratic backsliding,” writes political scientist Javier Corrales, is the term for “the process whereby existing democracies become less democratic.” This backsliding is one of the ways autocratization, the processes that move a country towards autocracy, occurs. Autocratization through coups and revolutions/insurrections are well-known phenomena.
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1 week ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. There isn’t a place on Earth we haven’t left our trash, from deepest ocean trench to highest mountain. And sixty-seven years on from Sputnik, it turns out we’ve dumped plenty of garbage outside of the Earth as well. Debris is so omnipresent in Earth orbit, warns Nicholas Peter of the International Space University, that it’s a serious threat to the ever-expanding space economy.
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1 week ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills
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2 weeks ago | 
medium.com | Matthew Wills
Matthew Wills·Follow7 min read·--In my previous article I shared the story of how I ended up at the University of Warwick, despite having written off its 1960’s brutalist campus in little under a minute. I ended up applying for — and enrolling on — the new politics, philosophy and law course at the University of Warwick, which had been set up by a professor from Oxford who had come to set up the degree.
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2 weeks ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In a trailer for the 2017 Frederick Wiseman documentary about the New York Public Library, a telephone reference librarian is seen gently informing a caller, “a unicorn, ahhh, is actually an imaginary animal.” Yet, in addition to being imaginary, unicorns also seem to be undying, a “species” that can’t go extinct.
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1 month ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. About 22,000 Japanese Canadians in British Columbia were interned during World War II. Categorized as security risks simply because they were of Japanese ancestry, most were British citizens of Canada and sixty percent were Canadian-born.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Matthew Wills
1 hour agoI tested this mini PC that’s smaller (and cheaper) than the Mac mini M4 — and I’m impressedThe Geekom A6 is a tiny yet powerful mini PC with an all-aluminum design that packs plenty of ports and powerful components. Even though it might …6 hours agoStar Wars fans losing it over open-world RPG we 'needed'A Star Wars RPG shouldn’t be such a tricky game to make, yet it’s surprising how many fans feel like official titles have fallen short. This is part …
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2 months ago | 
boredpanda.com | Matthew Wills
Hi, my name is Matthew J Wills and I am the creator of the webcomic Swords!Since his debut in 2020, Quest Sprout has captured the hearts and minds of adventurers everywhere. He's a small but determined hero and he's always on the lookout for QWESTS!—grand adventures that will bring him closer to his ultimate goal. After his mother mysteriously disappeared, Quest Sprout set off on a perilous journey, joining forces with powerful mercenaries and even mighty monsters to bring her back.
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2 months ago | 
aol.com | Matthew Wills
Hi, my name is Matthew J Wills and I am the creator of the webcomic Swords!Since his debut in 2020, Quest Sprout has captured the hearts and minds of adventurers everywhere. He's a small but determined hero and he's always on the lookout for QWESTS!—grand adventures that will bring him closer to his ultimate goal. After his mother mysteriously disappeared, Quest Sprout set off on a perilous journey, joining forces with powerful mercenaries and even mighty monsters to bring her back.
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2 months ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills |Chris Evans
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The plantation hoe, the ubiquitous farming tool of the British Atlantic, has been ignored historically, especially when compared to the plow. Yet, as historian Chris Evans shows, there’s a “complex and knotted history” to these hoes.
