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 […]
Equality Smatters
The incoming president of the Linguistic Society of America reflects on his own primary education and how public education across the nation tends to perpetuate the class structure.
Joel Mokyr on Economic Lessons from the Past
In this podcast, Northwestern University’s Joel , Mokyr tells interviewer Dave Edmonds, “I use economics to understand history, and I use history to understand economics.”
Australian Academics Criticize Political Meddling in Basic Research
In an open letter, 63 Australian Research Council laureate fellows complain vigorously to the minister and to the chief executive of the ARC about a recent instance of political interference in the funding of basic research.
Building Perspective-Taking Across Diverse Teams and Organizations
The authors of a new paper in the Journal of Management Inquiry asked how might perspective-taking be developed as a multidimensional cooperative process and problem-solving capability more widely across teams and organizational systems?
Hear, Hear! Audio Has a Role as a Serious Pedagogic Resource
Mark Carrigan reflects on how research listening has shaped his own practice and how an implicit assumption of its secondary relationship to reading, may limit our appreciation of engaging with research in a multi-modal fashion.
Learned Commentary on the Legacy of January 6 Attack
January 6 provided both a natural experiment for current research and a chance to see if past predictions might play out as expected. This collection of academic commentary on the attack should add ore light than heat to the discussion.
Might the ‘Sore Loser Effect’ Legitimize Violence?
James Piazza concludes that when election losers in democracies reject election results, becoming “sore losers,” tribalism grows and political violence becomes less taboo.
What Pieces Most Engaged Social Science Space Visitors in 2021?
The interests of the readers of Social Science Space in 2021 hewed closely to the interests of larger society last year – […]
