Korematsu and Beyond: Japanese Americans and the Origins of Strict Scrutiny

The authors examine the role that the Japanese American Citizens League played in the development of the strict scrutiny doctrine partly responsible for the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. The plight of Japanese Americans during their WWII internment gave them experience in implementing this doctrine, which they passed on to the NAACP

Equations of motion in the linear approximation

Gauge invariant theory of motion of singularities in linear approximatio

Joan Robinson: "In memoriam"

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Dragline comparisons

The presenting company provided data on the performance of a dragline over a four-week period during which four different buckets were used. The Study Group examined this data and suggested a method of analysing data from such comparative studies

Varieties of Ontological Argument

I consider what I hope are increasingly sophisticated versions of ontological argument, beginning from simple definitional forms, through three versions to be found in Anselm, with their recent interpretations by Malcolm, Plantinga, Klima and Lowe. I try to show why none of these work by investigating both the different senses of necessary existence and the conditions under which logically necessary existence can be brought to bear. Although none of these arguments work, I think that they lead to interesting reflections on the nature of definition, on the conditions for possessing the property of necessary existence and point towards a different, neo-Platonic ground for God’s meeting the criteria for being logically necessary

Science, TV and education: active, not passive learning at a distance?

Talk to scientists, broadcasters, educationalists or those working for the public understanding of science and you will get, almost certainly, a view that science has a declining presence in the output of major broadcasters. This chapter considers the potential – and limitation – of TV for science education and presents some data on successful science broadcast projects