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 […]
TED, Port and Coffee Consciousness
An early-career researcher takes part in an old practice, and learns some very new ideas.
Are Entrepreneurs’ Brains Wired Differently?
In his recent article on neuroleadership, Neal Ashkanasy predicted that “the fad will pass…but good research will have a lasting effect.” As […]
Too Much Workplace Data? Not So, Experts Say
There’s no shortage of studies and surveys these days on workplace trends, covering everything from gender biases and generational proclivities to when, […]
Can Leaders Do More Than Just Motivate Employees to Be Creative?
Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome Professor Sean R. McMahon of Elon University, whose paper “Heuristic Transfer in the Relationship Between […]
Universities for the Post-Democratic Age
Critical scholarship and intellectual dissent are currently being closed down in favour of a model of academic life that accords scholars a limited role as purveyors of practically useful skills in ‘real-world’ labour markets.
Breaking A Communication Barrier
The U.S. Department of Labor has reported that by 2050, minority groups will make up nearly half the U.S. population. With an […]
Who Really, Really Wants Open Access?
There is broad agreement is the desirability of wider access by readers to scholarly journal articles. There is less agreement on who these imagined readers might be.
Save the Humanities—From Themselves
The humanities and social sciences in America could use a white knight, but instead they got a white elephant.
