Catégories
The study of heat, entropy, and the collective behavior of large numbers of particles.
The study of properties preserved under continuous deformation, such as connectedness and continuity.
Civil wrongs outside contract: negligence, liability and the question of who bears a loss that someone else caused.
Travel and accommodation as an industry and as a subject: destinations, seasonality, and what tourism does to the places that receive it.
How chemicals harm living systems: dose-response, mechanisms of damage, and the exposure limits that follow from both.
Translation and interpreting as objects of study: what equivalence can mean, how translators actually work, and how translation has shaped what gets read.
Moving people and goods: road, rail and transit networks, traffic flow, and the planning that decides where any of it goes.
Why economic activity clusters where it does: cities, agglomeration, land and housing markets, and the gaps between regions.
Social life in cities: segregation, neighbourhoods, housing, and what density does to the people living in it.
The urinary tract and the male reproductive system, treated medically and surgically.
Medicine for animals: their diseases and treatment, herd health, and the infections that cross from them to us.
The study of viruses: how they replicate inside a host cell, how they evolve, and how they cause disease.
How images work and how they are read: form, medium and the visual culture that surrounds them, including the images nobody calls art.
Volcanoes and what they erupt: magma, its ascent and its behaviour at the surface, and the forecasting of eruptions.
History written above the scale of a single state: comparison, connection and exchange across regions.
Literature that circulates beyond its own language: canon formation on a global scale, and translation as the condition of the whole thing.
Observation of the hot and violent universe: accreting black holes, neutron stars, supernova remnants and the gas between galaxies in clusters. Space-based by necessity, since the atmosphere absorbs X-rays.
The study of animals: their anatomy, physiology, behaviour, classification and distribution.