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 […]
Understanding the ‘zig-zag’ trend of criminal careers has policy implications From International Journal of Offender Therapy Comparative Criminology Assessing policies designed to ensure […]
Like many academics, I was quite oblivious to the virtues of using digital social media for professional purposes for rather a long time. Then one day earlier this year the scales fell from my eyes.
There is still a great deal of inequality between the sexes in the workplace. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast Paul Seabright combines insights from economics and evolutionary theory to shed light on why this might be so.
Monsters, playboys, virgins and whores: Rape myths in the news media’s coverage of sexual violence From Language and Literature Gentlemen prefer red: A […]
Major problems with the recent Gay-parenting study come to light, “predictive policing” aims to prevent crime, and social science insights helping to make sense of climate change. These and more in this Weekly Overview of Social Science News!
Free press vs. free speech? The rhetoric of “civility” in regard to anonymous online comments From Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly A psychological […]
It seems we are to get Open Access in the UK whether we like it or not. It is, though, interesting to note how cavalier some people are about others’ intellectual property rights.
Social Scientists protest biased study targeting LGBT parents, Chinese girls outperforming boys and more in this Weekly Overview of Social Science News.