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 […]
Efforts To Protect Endangered Minority Languages: Helpful Or Harmful?
Headlines abound with the plight of endangered minority languages around the world. Read a few of these and you’ll see some common themes: the rising number of languages dying worldwide, the distressing isolation of individual last speakers and the wider cultural loss for humanity.
Marc Augé, 1935-2023: Anthropologist Founder Of ‘Non-Places’
French anthropologist Marc Augé, who died on July 24, is renowned for his concept of “non-places”. His 1993 text of the same name describes a reality that is very much relevant to our everyday lives.
Melissa Kearney on Marriage and Children
In this Social Science Bites podcast, economist Melissa Kearney reviews the long-term benefits of growing up in a two-parent household and details some of the reasons why such units have declined in the last four decades.
National Academies Looks at How to Reduce Racial Inequality In Criminal Justice System
To address racial and ethnic inequalities in the U.S. criminal justice system, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine just released “Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice and Policy.”
How Employees and Employers Can Encourage Psychological Safety In The Workplace
The individual ACT Matrix provides a framework for increasing psychological flexibility, fostering behavior change and increasing actions that are consistent with our values. It can be an effective intervention for promoting psychological safety in the workplace.
Book Review: A Memoir Highlighting Scientific Complexity
In this brief, crisply written memoir, “In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems,” Parisi takes the reader on a journey through his scientific life in the realm of complex, disordered systems, from fundamental particles to migratory birds. He argues that science’s struggle to understand and master the universe’s complexity, and especially to communicate it to an ever-more skeptical public, holds the key to humanity’s future well-being.
Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset for Language-Majored Undergraduates in Vietnam
My research motivation rooted from the global and local, workplace and education contexts, in which a module on entrepreneurial mindset (EM) designed for language majors can be critical for their employability, and possibly their academic and life journey so that they can become lifelong entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurship for a Cause
Traditional schools and education systems are designed like industrial conveyer belts tasked with churning out as identical produce as possible, one cohort at a time. But education doesn’t have to be this way.
