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By David Birch I tend to arrive in Stratford at night; the Jubilee brings me in, the Central takes me out. These days as I…

By Sam Burt Is it acceptable for a publicly-funded British institution to be seen to be tacitly complying with the restriction of artistic freedom by…

By Mark Napier With a plethora of scientific and technological developments such as sustainable energy, interstellar mining operations, in vitro (laboratory grown) meat, synthetic biology…

By Brenda Stones The recent refilming of The Great Gatsby must have sent a lot of us back to reread the book: and what an…

This article [Defoe and the Distance to Utopia] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/01/25/defoe-and-the-distance-to-utopia/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you…

This article [Emma Goldman’s “Anarchism without Adjectives”] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2011/01/12/emma-goldmans-anarchism-without-adjectives/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish…

This article [Beatus of Liébana] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/04/18/beatus-of-liebana/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse…

This article [Tales from Tahiti] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/02/08/tales-from-tahiti/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse…

Thursday, December 29, 2016 According to a study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), is…

How did physicists figure out that the raisin cookie model was incorrect, and that the atom’s positive charge was concentrated in a tiny, central nucleus?…

Nineteenth-century physicists spent a lot of time trying to come up with wild, random ways to play with electricity. The best experiments of this kind…

This article [Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2011/01/31/christopher-smarts-jubilate-agno/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to…

This article [The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/12/07/the-many-lives-of-the-medieval-wound-man/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.…

Saturday, December 31, 2016 On Thursday, the U.S. government expelled 35 diplomats suspected of being Russian spies, and sanctioned the G.R.U. and F.S.B. intelligence agencies.…

“Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?” – Victor Hugo His father died during his mother’s pregnancy.…

Monday, December 26, 2016 A military plane carrying 92 people crashed into the Black Sea two minutes after departing Sochi, Russia yesterday. The Tupolev Tu-154…

There are three main ways in which wave motion differs from the motion of objects made of matter. Superposition The most profound difference is that…

This article [Julia Margaret Cameron in Ceylon: Idylls of Freshwater] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2014/07/09/julia-margaret-cameron-in-ceylon-idylls-of-freshwater-vs-idylls-of-rathoongodde/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.…

Until recently, physicists thought they understood gravity fairly well. Einstein had modified Newton’s theory, but certain characteristics of gravitational forces were firmly established. For one…

One day, you’re driving down the street in your pickup truck, on your way to deliver a bowling ball. The ball is in the back…