Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
When governments nudge people to do healthful things it IS a little bit like 1984, says Mike Marinetto. But it’s more like a big brother than Big Brother, he adds.
Well-known leftist political theorist Ernesto Laclau, an Argentinian who made his home in the United Kingdom and with his partner Chantal Mouffe […]
The father of Argentinian semiotics, Eliseo Verón, has died at age 78.
In July of 2010, the United nations identified clean water as a human right. However, less than one percent of the fresh […]
The author of a new introduction to statistics textbook was bothered that even among students who but their required books they rarely crack them open. So he decided to give them an incentive.
There’s lots and lots (and lots) of information pumping through the internet. This, argues Farida Vis, makes it doubly important to verify what’s out there and then determine how to deal with the patently false.
It’s unavoidable – tax day comes each year. As a reward and to celebrate the day “after,” we are pleased to offer an interdisciplinary collection […]
Scholarly knowledge is under threat, and that’s both good and dire, argued panelists at a recent discussion in Vienna.