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 […]
John List on Economic Field Experiments
Behavioral economist John List talks about his work on field experiments and how research done in the natural world can lead to insights that otherwise might be hard to tease out in a lab.
Understanding the ‘Undercover Autism’ of Many Women and Girls
[Ed. – April 2, 2022 is World Autism Awareness Day.] Being autistic, but not diagnosed, can lead to a lifetime of struggles […]
Comparing COVID Deaths and Political Persuasion in the US
The Pew Research Center writes that “as the relationship between population density and coronavirus death rates has changed over the course of the pandemic, so too has the relationship between counties’ voting patterns and their death rates from COVID-19.”
What Can Game Theory Tell Us About Ukraine War Negotiations?
Game theory is the formal study of strategic choices between two sides. It’s useful to decision makers because it can illustrate the range of options open to combatants within a given crisis, and also map the likely “wins and losses” strategically decided upon by the parties involved. The challenge is applying a hypothetical spectrum to the range of passive and aggressive options, and their consequences in Ukraine today.
Can That Emoji Reveal a Remote Workers’ Emotional State?
A team from the University of Michigan tracked emoji use as a marker of emotions, and tracked how the use of emoji in work communications can predict remote worker dropouts.
We Haven’t Just Suffered During COVID – We’ve Learned
Resilience of young people, new treatment tools give Harvard psychologist Matt Nock hope amid mental health challenges posed by social media, school and campus disruptions
Failures of Imagination: Four Experts on Science’s COVID Response So Far
The World Health Organization declared COVID a pandemic on March 11 2020. In the two years since, countries have diverged on their containment strategies, introducing many different ways of mitigating the virus, to varying effect. Here, four health experts look at what has worked well, what mistakes scientists and policymakers made, and what needs to be done to protect human health from here on.
Kathelijne Koops on Chimps and Tools
Kathelijne Koops, a biological anthropologist at the University of Zurich, works to determine what makes us human. And she approaches this quest by intensely studying the use of tools by other species across sub-Saharan Africa.
