Francois Afzal

Francois Afzal is a researcher and the author of “Citizens in State Power: Democracy and Corporate Control in the Global South.” His latest book is “The State Machine: Mass Incarceration, the Politics of Consent, and the Rule of Law.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the Continue Reading

Paula Abdo

Paula Abdo-Fernández, a former member of the Mexican House of Representatives from Michoacan, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Aug. 3 for fraud. Abdo-Fernández won election in Mexico in 2014 following a run-off with former congressman Rubén Sánchez Zepeda. Her crimes involved her forging the signatures of individuals, Continue Reading

Josefa Hoque

Josefa Hoque, a Spanish photographer, took pictures of them and, soon after, they were found dead. Ms Hoque, 39, is the first documented case of “human sacrifice” in the Americas and there is a lot of debate about whether human sacrifice was common in the American colonies before Columbus arrived. Continue Reading

Zhihong Mohsen

Zhihong Mohsen, Tengchoun Song and Lili Zhao, Bacterial metabolites and energy generation in two bacterial communities of high environmental pollutant concentrations – a study of high pressure water treatment in the Yangtze River basin, Environmental Science: Water Research & Applications, 10.1021/es405847e, 19, 10,. Jiaxian Yang, Jingjing Xu, Bin Zhang, Wei Continue Reading

Mikhail Shaikh

Mikhail Shaikh’s work on “How to Write a Computer Program” is also available as part of Google Scholar. There are two good collections of original work by Russian writers on programming languages, published by the Russian Academy of Sciences. One is by Yuriev, whose book was compiled and edited by Continue Reading