This article unpacks how ‘development’ is represented and sold in postgraduate development studies courses at two UK universities, based on a close reading of the course’s marketing materials interviews with professional staff within university, academic leads current students. It explores effects representations students their imaginations discipline university brand. I find engender cosmopoli...

This paper intends to clarify a concept with multiple meanings and a complex reality. It starts providing varied histological and embryological examples apt to contribute the stimulation of teacher and student imaginations in favor of a crucial skill, as thematic integration is, into the present and changing curricula in Medicine in particular and Health Sciences in general. In this sense, it o...

Imagine a world with an abundance of pesticide-free produce, no more flies and yellow jackets at picnics, and— more importantly—no diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and other arthropods. Welcome to Utopia! In the real world, however, chemical ecologists are pushing the envelope towards these ambitious goals. They are working diligently to decipher the “Rosetta Stone” of insect chemical communi...

The visual impact of hyperbolic tessellations has captured artists' imaginations ever since M.C. Escher generated his Circle Limit series in the 1950s. The scaling properties generated by hyperbolic geometry are different to the fractal scaling properties found in nature's scenery. Consequently, prevalent interpretations of Escher's art emphasize the lack of connection with nature's patterns. H...

This paper presents an analysis of the geography of the booming ‘Islamic financial services’ (IFS) sector, which provides a host of financial services based on Islamic religious grounds. The relevance of such an analysis is discussed against the conceptual backdrop of the world city network literature. It is argued that a focus on the globalization of the IFS sector may provide an alternative t...