Open citation data, open peer-review, and open access produce essential materials to transition toward meaningful reform in scientific research assessment. Current research assessment tools notably include, but are not limited to, citation-based measures (Journal Impact Factor, h-index) and article level metrics (download counts, social media);…[Read more]

Academics fly a lot: to research sites and archives, to conferences and workshops. Yet flying has many negative repercussions. Air travel has disproportionate climate impacts, and for reasons of time, money, and border security, produces many barriers for marginalized scholars, shaping who is able shows up at conferences and thus, who participates…[Read more]

Over two percent of the Egyptian population perished during World War I due to starvation, malnutrition, and disease. Although technically neutral, Egypt was the staging ground for British and Dominion troops fighting the campaign against the Ottoman Empire. The prioritization of military needs led to government recruitment of civilian…[Read more]

Often collaborators come together to teach digital humanities (DH) in the hope of modeling for students what the humanities can be — generous, collaborative, publicly engaged. At times, though, collaborative DH pedagogy in fact reproduces power structures inherent in academic institutions, placing faculty, students, and staff in the same strict c…[Read more]

Tsao, Hung-ping 曹恆平 (2022). Evolutionary Mathematics and Arts for East Clear West Bright 東明西燦：業餘與職業數學家的寫照 . In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 4, Number 3, March 2022; 614 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Auburndale, MA, 0246…[Read more]

Tsao, Hung-ping (2022). Evolutionary mathematics and arts Sudoku10.O (Optimal Strategy): Basic Moves Plus PLC And RCT. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science,
Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 4, Number 2, February 2022; 45 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Auburndale, MA,…[Read more]

The article follows the contours of a conversation with Fulvio Aurora, Paolo Fierro and Edoardo Turri, three members of the Italian health activist organization Medicina Democratica, which will also function as the backbone of our account of the initial radical
impetus and the later demise of the Italian public health system, the Servizio…[Read more]

Focusing on the work of John McWhorter and, to a lesser extent, Peter Trudgill, this paper critically examines some common themes in language complexity research from the perspective of intellectual history. The present-day conception that increase in language complexity is somehow a “natural” process which is disturbed under the “ab…[Read more]

Tsao, Hung-ping (2021). Evolutionary mathematics and arts Sudoku10.0: All Sudoku Puzzles are Equally Easy. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 3, Number 11, November 2021; 92 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Auburndale, MA, 02466, USA.…[Read more]

Tsao, Hung-ping (2021). Evolutionary mathematics and science for Calculus of the Powered Sums of a Sequence of Numbers. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 3, Number 7, July 2021; 42 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Auburndale, MA,…[Read more]

Tsao, Hung-ping (2021). Evolutionary Mathematics and Science for Two Aspects of Binomial Coefficients: Polynomial and Combination. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 3, Number 8, August 2021; 42 pages. Lenox Institute Press,…[Read more]

Tsao, Hung-ping 曹恆平 (2021). Evolutionary mathematics and arts Sudoku9.0: Easy Way to Crack Hard Sudoku with the Principle of the Least Choice. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. 王抗曝 and Tsao, Hung-ping 曹恆平 (editors). Volume 3, Number 10, October 2021; 42 pages. Lenox I…[Read more]