Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Round-up of Social Science Research
The following articles are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 700 journals. The articles linked below are free […]
Can We Get Teens to Get Tested for STD’s?
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Adolescent Health, approximately 9.5 million adolescents and young adults are […]
Bruce Hood on the Supernatural
Listen as Nigel Warburton talks with developmental psychologist Bruce Hood about the very natural tendency to look to the supernatural to explain events.
Are CO-OP’s the Future of Health Care?
According to the White House, 8 million people signed up for private insurance in the Health Insurance Marketplace under the Affordable Care […]
The Tightrope of Studying Subjects at Legality’s Fringe
Social scientists don’t always study subjects whose actions please the authorities. Is the freedom to associate with these people for research purposes under attack? Should researchers have their own ‘shield law’?
Whither, or Wither, Social Science at the NSF?
UPDATED: After last week’s flurry of activity in the House and with the Senate weighing in this week, where does social science stand in regard to continued U.S. government spending? The warning signs are more concerning than the current status.
Go Team Girl! Women Empowerment and Olympic Success
Women first took part in the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900, according to the International Olympic Committee. At the time, out […]
Humanities and the Liberal University: Calls to Action
Beyond the funding fears experienced by the social science, the humanities have those kinds of worries and their cyclic existential crisis.
