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 […]
The Author of Risk Society: Ulrich Beck, 1944-2015
The German sociologist and public intellectual who posited that manufactured risk was a primary product of modernity died on New Year’s Day at age 70
It’s Time to Take the Measure of Social Mobility
Despite its obsession with the concept of equal opportunity, the United States hasn’t actively monitored its residents’ social mobility for more than four decades. Now a group of social scientists have proposed an efficient way using existing tools to chart mobility.
The Social Scientist Who Knew Torture Wasn’t Worth the Game
Game theory neatly — and sadly — predicted the futility of using torture to extract meaning information from terror suspects, neatly predicting the results of the recent U.S. Senate report years before its release.
Tales from The City, the Behavioral Science Summit
A transdisciplinary investigation into ‘The City’ sponsored offered hard truths and rays of hope for the urban future most of us will face.
