Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Just what is the “Global Brain”? In his article “Global Brain and the Future of Human Society,” Cadell Last defines the Global […]
Just as scholarship now is more and more about the generation of economic benefits, for many studying is now less about ‘reading for a degree’ than about ‘getting a degree,’ suggests Daniel Nehring.
Current political events have called to mind the Cold War Era and the effect that it had on the history of the […]
David Canter considers the psychological bases of violent jihad.
David Takeuchi argues that even if the FIRST act doesn’t pass, it is clear that U.S. politicians are demanding more of a say in federally funded research. While a push to ensure research remains relevant can be a good thing, scientists and politicians must not forget that initial outcomes do not constitute substantive evidence. Scientific integrity and replication shouldn’t have to be sacrificed in order to meet political time frames.
According to a December 2010 report from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Monthly Labor Review report, the U.S. housing bubble […]
Robert Dingwall argues that numeracy and and a grasp of quantitative method of course have a place in the education of a social scientist, but they shouldn’t be the only skills in the graduate’s quiver. How about he ability to walk around, for one?
Viewing the question through the prism of the riots of 2011, Martyn Hammersley asks some probing questions about ability and the expertise of public sociology is explaining the incidents.