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 […]
Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge
There is a value to shared knowledge that tends to go unrecognized because it’s so ubiquitous. Nonetheless, experimental psychologist Steven Pinker explains […]
Reaching Parts to Which AI Has No Access
David Canter considers informal places where people socialize, suggesting they’re an arena ChatGPT and other LLMs can’no’t replicate. As someone who lives […]
Women Will Inherit Trillions in the ‘Great Wealth Transfer’ – What Will They Do With It?
In the November edition of The Evidence, Josephine Lethbridge explores an historic shift in global wealth – and its potential to reshape charitable giving. Over the coming decades, […]
Devyani Sharma on Accents
What does your accent – and yes, every speaker has one – say about you? Or perhaps the better question is, what […]
Frank Keil on Causal Thinking
As a practical matter, how much effort do you put into pinning down the causes behind daily occurrences? To developmental psychologist Frank […]
The World of Criminal Psychologists Expands to Include Crimes Against Planet Earth
After years of trying to understand the minds of people who hurt others, I have recently turned my attention as a criminal […]
Ziyad Marar on Noticing
The new book Noticing: How We Attend to the World and Each Other opens with a quote from psychologist William James: “Only […]
Victor Buchli on Life in Low-Earth Orbit
As an anthropologist, Victor Buchli has one foot in the Neolithic past and another in the space-faring future. A professor of material […]
