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Modern rabbinate
The modern rabbinate is the form the Jewish rabbi's office has taken since the nineteenth century, when emancipation turned rabbis from unpaid communal scholars into salaried, seminary-trained professionals.
Modern republican political theory
Modern republican political theory, often called neorepublicanism, is a research program defining freedom as non-domination, revived by Pocock, Skinner, and Pettit in the late 1970s.
Modern scholarship on Platonism and Neoplatonism
Modern scholarship on Platonism and Neoplatonism is the academic study of the Platonic tradition from the Early Academy through Neoplatonism, carried out through reference works, journals, and monograph series.
Modern searches for Lorentz violation
Modern searches for Lorentz violation are precision experiments testing whether the laws of physics depend on the laboratory's velocity or orientation, and none has found a violation.
Modern sijo
Modern sijo (현대시조) is Korean sijo poetry written from the late nineteenth century to today, keeping the traditional three-stanza form while no longer being sung.
Modern Standard Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA, al-fusha) is the formal pan-Arab register used in news, education, and government, descended from Classical Arabic, spoken by no one natively, understood by 400 million across 22 countries, and distinct from regional dialects.
Modern Standby
Modern Standby, also called S0 low power idle (S0ix), is Microsoft's Windows sleep power model in which the system stays partially running with the screen off.
Modern Syrian literature
Modern Syrian literature is the Arabic-language literature produced in Syria from the late nineteenth century onward, shaped by printing, state formation, and decades of censorship.
Modern Syrian poetry
Modern Syrian poetry is Arabic-language poetry from Syria, a principal center of the move from the classical qasida to free verse and the prose poem.
Modern Talking
Modern Talking: German synth-pop/Eurodisco duo of Dieter Bohlen and Thomas Anders, formed Berlin 1983; hits "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" and "Brother Louie"; split 1987, reunited 1998-2003, over 120 million records sold.
Modern Tamil theatre
Modern Tamil theatre is the tradition of scripted Tamil drama, generally dated from 1870, when folk performance was reshaped by Western plays and Parsi theater, with pioneers Pammal Sambanda Mudaliar and Sankaradas Swamigal.
Modern Times (film)
Modern Times (1936) is Charles Chaplin's 87-minute comedy, his last film with the Little Tramp, a largely silent Depression-era satire of industrial automation whose gibberish Titine song marked the Tramp's only spoken words.
Modern Times Group
Modern Times Group MTG AB, Swedish gaming group on Nasdaq Stockholm (MTGA/MTGB), former TV broadcaster turned pure-play gaming investor; owns studios like InnoGames, Plarium, Hutch; sold ESL Gaming to Savvy for $1.05bn in 2022.
Modern treaty-making in Canada
Modern treaty-making in Canada is the negotiation of Indigenous land claims through comprehensive agreements, a policy begun in 1973 with the first treaty signed in 1975.
Modern United States Navy carrier air operations
Modern United States Navy carrier air operations are the launch and recovery of aircraft from nuclear-powered supercarriers like the Nimitz and Gerald R. Ford classes.
Modern Vampires of the City
Modern Vampires of the City is Vampire Weekend's third studio album, released May 14, 2013 on XL Recordings, produced by Rostam Batmanglij and Ariel Rechtshaid, a number-one Billboard 200 record about faith and mortality.
Modern warfare
Modern warfare: industrial, networked state warfare born in 1917-18 as three-dimensional artillery-based conflict; now defined by drones, AI targeting, and stalemate-prone attrition, with drone-inflicted casualties in Ukraine exceeding 70-80% by 2025.
Modern Whore
Modern Whore is a 2025 Canadian hybrid documentary by Nicole Bazuin starring Andrea Werhun, based on her sex work memoir; it premiered at TIFF 2025, won CUFF.Docs and Canadian Screen Awards, and was released digitally May 1, 2026.
Moderna
Moderna, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech founded 2010, develops mRNA medicines delivered in lipid nanoparticles. Makes Spikevax and mNEXSPIKE COVID-19 vaccines, mRESVIA RSV vaccine, and a 35-program pipeline in oncology and rare disease.
Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, marketed as Spikevax, is a messenger RNA vaccine against COVID-19 developed by Moderna and NIAID, authorized in the United States in December 2020.
Moderne Ventures
Moderne Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Constance Freedman that invests in technology companies serving real estate, finance, insurance, and sustainability.
Moderne Ventures Core
Moderne Ventures Core is the pooled fund family of Moderne Ventures, a Chicago venture capital firm founded by Constance Freedman in 2015, investing in real estate and finance technology.
Modernisation Fund (European Union)
The Modernisation Fund is a European Union financing instrument, funded by EU ETS allowance auctions, that helps 13 lower-income Member States modernize energy systems from 2021 to 2030.
Modernism
Modernism, or the Modern movement, is a loose collection of movements in art, architecture, design, literature, and music that arose in Europe and America from the late nineteenth century.
Modernism (music)
Modernism in music: turn-of-the-20th-century period of change in musical language, breaking from Romantic tonality via atonality, Schoenberg's twelve-tone serialism, Impressionism, and neoclassicism (Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartók), dominant after WWII then critiqued by postmodernism.
Modernism in Arabic poetry
Modernism in Arabic poetry, al-ḥadāthah al-shiʿriyyah, is the movement that broke the classical Arabic poem's fixed meter and single rhyme, beginning in the late 1940s.
Modernism in Brazil
Modernism in Brazil (Modernismo brasileiro) was a cultural movement seeking a distinctively Brazilian art, launched by the 1922 Week of Modern Art in São Paulo.
Modernismo
Modernismo was a Spanish-language literary movement that arose in Spanish America in the 1880s and lasted into the 1920s, led by Rubén Darío and influential in Spain itself.
Modernismo cubano
Modernismo cubano is the Cuban branch of Modernismo, the late nineteenth century Spanish American literary renewal movement, identified above all with José Martí and Julián del Casal.
Modernist Journals Project
Modernist Journals Project: joint Brown University and University of Tulsa digital archive of searchable English-language literary magazines, 1890s to 1922, founded 1995 by Robert Scholes; 26 magazines digitized with NEH support.