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 […]
Stale to Stellar: The Truth Behind Creating an Engaging Webinar
What makes a webinar presentation feel stale? You probably know ’em when you experience ’em. But how do you escape that trap in your own presentation, Echo Rivera is here to help …
Can Action-Oriented Research Help Social Science Be More Relevant?
‘Action oriented research’ is research which explores socially relevant problems by bridging worlds of theory and practice, which involves collaboration between practitioners (and other research ‘consumers’) and academics and which shortens pathways to impact by combining research production with research use in situ
Making a Modern Encyclopedia Into a Tool for Lifelong Learning
Creating a modern academic encyclopedia is a labor of love – years of effort that is both conceptual and physical, dozens or even hundreds of writers to corral and then try to control, the ever-present march of time threatening to date all your efforts before anyone see your work, and the possibility that even serious scholars might just Google their question rather than reach for a well-vetted volume.
5 Ways To Make Your Writing Assignments Better
University life comes with its share of challenges. One of these is writing longer assignments that require higher information, communication and critical […]
National Academies Taps Social Science Expertise for Policy-Maker Use
While hopes for a medical answer to the current COVID-19 remain strong, the reality is that social, behavioral and economic science drives […]
Digital Overload and the Nostalgic Joys of Analog
As a global pandemic leaves many drowning in the digital, the pleasures of our analog past are ripe for re-discovery. This post from Kip Jones recounts his feelings about the joys of physical media.
They Don’t Want You to Know That Not All Conspiracy Theories Should Be Treated the Same
Ever since the coronavirus spread across the world, suspicions have proliferated about what is really going on. Questions arose about the origins […]
How Can Wise Graphics Use Cut Through the Complexity of COVID-19?
Editor’s Note: If you’re curious about the ways in which data visualization and graph use can generate impact with regard to the […]
