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 […]
Piketty’s Real Legacy May Be His Deep Data
While Tomas Piketty’s focus on inequality is seen as finally getting the discussion of inequality on the front pages, it may be his his data collection that really cements his reputation.
Listen to Joseph Stiglitz’s Moynihan Lecture
“America has achieved the distinction of being the country with the highest level of income inequality among the advanced countries,” prefaced economist […]
Does Mental Ability Affect Question Interpretation on Personality Tests?
[We’re pleased to welcome Amy DuVernet who was the corresponding author on the article “General Mental Ability as a Source of Differential […]
The Impact of Social Sciences Project by the Numbers
The Impact of Social Sciences blog emerged from a three-year research project devoted to a qualitative and quantitative understanding of the complexity of academic impact. To not let any impact-relevant knowledge dissolve away, Jane Tinkler takes a look back at the outputs, outcomes and connections made throughout the research process.
Hoopla Aside, Turing’s Test Remains Unbeaten
The latest attempt to show a machine can pass itself off as human relied a little too heavily on letter of Turing’s test and not its spirit.
Who is Hurt By Corruption in the United States?
This article first appeared on SAGE’s Management Ink blog and is reposted with permission. *** What is the economic impact of corruption? […]
Who is Hurt By Corruption in the United States?
What is the economic impact of corruption? And who is hurt most by these misguided acts? Author Adriana S. Cordis discusses this […]
Social and Natural Science: Has the Square Been Circled?
A natural scientist reflects on a conference that focused on bringing natural and social scientists into a a shared, and continuing, conversation.
