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 […]
Tom Gilovich On the Spotlight Effect
Tom Gilovich finds it fun to study the whys and wherefores of how human beings make sense of the information delivered by […]
Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 6: A Social Science Bites Retrospective
Every guest on the Social Science Bites podcast is queried about their area of expertise, and hence the questions tend to differ […]
From Passive Consumption to Active Verification: Embedding Critical Thinking as a Daily Cognitive Habit in Higher Education
In an era defined by algorithm-curated feeds, persuasive misinformation, and increasingly sophisticated AI-generated content, the challenge facing higher education is no longer […]
Ellora Derenoncourt on the US Racial Wealth Gap
This Social Science Bites podcast offers a dollop of good news and heaping helping of bad. The good news is that since […]
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 […]
