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Beyond the Petri Dish: Exhibitions as Catalysts for Microbial Literacy—Bridging Science, Culture and Society

open access: yesMicrobial Biotechnology, Volume 18, Issue 8, August 2025.
Microbes shape our health and environment, yet remain invisible to most people. Exhibitions use art, design and storytelling to make microbial science tangible and engaging. By turning abstract processes into sensory experiences, they promote sustainability, health equity and global collaboration—aligning with lifelong learning and the UN Sustainable ...
Rachel Armstrong
wiley   +1 more source

Between theft and treason: latrocinium in Carolingian capitularies

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 367-390, August 2025.
Suppressing robbery, latrocinium, was a priority for Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, Charles the Bald, and Louis II at key political moments. Latrones were conceptualized as ordinary thieves, as highway robbers, and as threats to peace and security. In capitularies, latrocinium was implicitly and explicitly associated with infidelity.
James R. Burns
wiley   +1 more source

Why “Real men don't speak French”: Deconstructing cultural attitudes to a language by historicizing their discursive formations

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 389-406, Summer 2025.
Abstract Guided by Foucault's concept of “discursive formations,” the study reported here draws on primary archival and secondary source material to examine how French has been discursively shaped in England and in relation to English. Unpacking sociohistorical constructions of sameness–difference offers a productive frame to explore ideological ...
Simon Coffey
wiley   +1 more source

Matthew 25:1-13 Exegetical Perspective

open access: yes, 2013
Excerpt: The Gospel of Matthew presents a lucid and compelling portrait of Jesus as the Jewish Messiah for third-generation Christians. Having shown Jesus to be descended from David and Abraham (1:1), and fulfilling all righteousness (3:15), Matthew ...
Anderson, Paul N.
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Bioactive Compounds in Seafood: Implications for Health and Nutrition

open access: yesFood Science &Nutrition, Volume 13, Issue 4, April 2025.
Seafood is vital in promoting cardiovascular health, regulating blood sugar levels, reducing the risk of specific cancers, combating obesity, enhancing brain health, and supporting maternal care during pregnancy and lactation. Given the rising interest in functional foods and nutraceuticals, I believe this review will be particularly interesting to ...
Tabussam Tufail   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Food Ethics and Religion" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
How does an engagement with religious traditions (broadly construed) illuminate and complicate the task of thinking through the ethics of eating? In this introduction, we survey some of the many food ethical issues that arise within various religious ...
Doggett, Tyler, Halteman, Matthew C.
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Return from exile: Mythology and heritage in American Born Chinese and its Disney adaptation

open access: yesPopular Culture Review, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 228-237, Fall 2024.
Abstract Though American Born Chinese has received a significant degree of scholarly study, the prevalence of cultural exile in the text has not received sufficient attention. Said's theorization on exile provides a guide to examining the mindset of Jin, who willfully accepts exile from his Chinese‐American heritage because of how he feels neither ...
Joshua Fagan
wiley   +1 more source

I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.
This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
wiley   +1 more source

Chivalry in Gawain and the Green Knight [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Written in a Cheshire dialect, the fourteenth century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tells a tale in the style of a romance of King Arthur’s Court when Camelot is in its infancy and what happens when Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious
Mackley, J S
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