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 […]
UK’s Campaign for Social Science Seeks Senior Campaign Manager
Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences is seeking a pro-active, experienced and thoughtful senior campaign manager to take responsibility for developing and delivering […]
Consumption as Intercultural Communication and Interaction
When was the last time you went out for a Thai meal, got items from the ethnic isle of a supermarket, wore […]
NIH: Exploring the Publication Gap Between Social/Behavioral and Biomedical Research
Behavioral and social science grant recipients from America’s National Institutes of Health appear to have not published their results within five years at a greater rate than for their non-behavioral peers. An NIH director investigated …
HEPI Report Examines Conversation Universities Should Have With Media
In the new HEPI report, “Mixed Media: what universities need to know about journalists so they can get a better press”, veteran journalist Rosemary Bennett addresses the universities’ routine silence in public discussion of education and what they should do to rectify that.
World Anthropology Day: What Anthropology Can Teach Us During COVID-19?
With a virus running rampant across the world, the value of a global perspective becomes obvious: We must remember to observe the nuances of cultural and historical contexts […]
The Comfort of Strangers
David Canter considers how disasters and tragedies can bring out the best in what it means to be human, and sometimes the worst.
Consumption Does Not Equate to Happiness
We all want stuff, but in our overdeveloped, fast-paced culture we seldom challenge ourselves to ask ourselves the one important question: how much is enough?
Video: Inequality During COVID-19
“COVID has put a magnifying glass on existing inequalities,” says Jolanda Jetten, a professor of social psychology at the University of Queensland, “and it’s clear that the degree of suffering is unfairly on the shoulders of the poorer groups in societies, and also the poorest countries in this world.”
