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Where Paper, People, and Humor Meet: The Case Story

Cumbrian broadcasting legend, Melvyn Bragg, has recorded his 1000th episode of the iconic programme ‘In Our Time’.

The broadcaster’s Radio 4 programme has been running for 25 years, was the first ever BBC podcast and is its most downloaded ever weekly show. Not bad for being stuck in the ‘death slot’…

Referred to by many as "Dr. Paper" based on his vast technical and market knowledge gained from a 50-year career in the paper industry, retired Case Paper VP Ken Gettlin was honored by the Print Brokerage/Buyers Association International (PBBA International) for his printing industry contributions on May 24.

Adriana Craciun’s profile on The Conversation

At the end of the twentieth century, the long predicted convergence of the media, computing and telecommunications into hypermedia is finally happening.[2] Once again, capitalism’s relentless drive…

The late French thinker said that philosophy was his great intellectual love. He pursued that love in many ways.

<p>The historian of science has examined the social relationships of credibility that must prevail for scientific expertise to exist, and also critiqued the evolving conventions of wine-tasting terminology from "Old BS" to "New BS." </p>

Steven Shapin on trust, interdisciplinarity, wine — and writing to be read.

Plague, Crisis, and Scientific Authority during the London Caterpillar Outbreak of 1782