Drawing and Longing

Longing for the Longue Durée.

The authors of The History Manifesto respond to the Viewpoint commentary and extend the dialogue between the book's arguments and the recent historiography of science, technology, and medicine.

Baby longing and men’s reproductive motivation

Childbearing in low-fertility societies sometimes results from a strong desire to have a(nother) child. Since women tend to dominate discussions on ‘baby longing’ or ‘baby fever’, it is not clear whether men also feel the powerful urge to have a child. Moreover, the demographic importance of baby longing has yet to be assessed. Using cross-sectional surveys from contemporary Finland and focusin...

Longing for Integrated Care: The Importance of Effective Governance

Last March I had the honour to do my inaugural lecture at the University of Tilburg/TIAS Business School, where I have held since 2016 my chair called ‘Innovation of the organization and governance of integrated care’ [1]. For me it was a day to remember. In the Netherlands it is also a very formal and traditional ceremony where family, friends, colleagues and other relations are invited to sha...

Drawing Georeferenced Graphs - Combining Graph Drawing and Geographic Data

DATA VISUALIZATION Full Papers A Linear Time Algorithm for Visualizing Knotted Structures in 3 Pages Vitaliy Kurlin Supporting Event-based Geospatial Anomaly Detection with Geovisual Analytics Orland Hoeber and Monjitr Ul Hasan The Stor-e-Motion Visualization for Topic Evolution Tracking in Text Data Streams Andreas Weiler, Michael Grossniklaus and Marc H. Scholl The Visual Exploration of Aggre...

“Longing to Know If Our Knowing Really Is Knowing” Reflections on Esther Meek’s Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People