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 […]
Hope for the Common Good
Recent research suggests that the so-called Golden Rule of ‘doing unto others …’ may have resonance in enhancing the public good.
Tomorrow’s Britain Needs Social Science Today, Report Argues
The Campaign for Social Science is asking the British government-to-be for a greater recognition of social science, arguing that the nation’s future prosperity will depend on it.
Duckies Honor Nod to Nonviolence in Violent World
A post on the nonviolent conflicts that didn’t get noticed due to their lack violence – and which appeared on the Political […]
Let’s Play Fantasy Football for Big Thinkers
If you were to make up a fantasy football team for, say an intellectual Premier League, which thinks from Socrates forward might be among your picks?
If Only MOOCs Could Add an eHarmony Component
We go to school for an education, not a mate. But if you don’t find a mate at school, you are not getting as much return out of the experience as you can. Which brings us, in a new Danish study, to one issue with online classes …
The New Realism in Academic Life
As some of the ferment that marked university life for an earlier generation seems to dissipate, has a new realism crept in among subsequent generations of academics to accept what they feel they cannot change?
How Science Communication Can Validate Sexism
Cliodhna O’Connor describes how traditional gender stereotypes sometimes get projected onto scientific information and its subsequent reporting.
UK Universities and the Clash of (Organizational) Cultures
The organization of British universities in changing, affecting not only the education provided but the circumstances of of those who labor there. Adapting to this required dialogue, says Daniel Nehring, and not invective.
