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 […]
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.
COVID Suggests that Fear Itself Not Sufficient for Health Messaging
Research the author and colleagues conducted at Penn State shows that both the escalation and de-escalation of fear must occur for the message to be effective.
Where Do Our Eyes Go During All Those Video Meetings?
During the dramatic halt to in-person events in 2020, the use of video call software skyrocketed, transforming Zoom into a household name, […]
What Does the Data Tell Us About Black Coaches, the NFL and Discrimination
There are a lot of factors that play into deciding on who to hire as a head coach in the NFL. Looking at the data, race is one of them.
Let’s Define ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’
Looking at the entirety of what occurred on Jan. 6, 2021, it’s clear that there was both legitimate protest and illegitimate political violence. When political violence replaces political discourse, and when political leaders refuse to play by the democratic rules of the game, democracies weaken, and may even die.
George Loewenstein on Hot and Cold Affect
The idea of walking a mile in someone else’s shoes is often trotted out as a metaphor for understanding empathy. The act […]
Understanding Internationalisation of Informal African Firms Through A Network Perspective
The work of Christopher Boafo, Richard Afriyie Owusu and Karine Guiderdoni-Jourdain offers an understanding of the internationalization of informal smaller firms in two major enterprise clusters in a sub-Saharan African economy through a network perspective.
