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 […]
Can creativity flourish at a time when government funding for arts and humanities is being cut? That was the question under discussion […]
The European Science Foundation report on “The Future of Knowledge: Mapping Interfaces” explores the discourse of disciplinarity and the contemporary relevance of […]
I’m a member of a university (the University of Southampton) which forces its budding social scientists through two courses in statistics. This […]
Now that the dust has settled a bit from the recent Science ‘controversy’ in anthropology, I join others in the field who […]
OppNet is the NIH’s Opportunity Network for basic behavioral and social science research grants. Dr William N. Elwood, OppNet’s Facilitator, kindly sent […]
By definition a discipline is “a branch of knowledge, typically studied in higher education” (Oxford). Concentration on a discipline invariably results in […]
Psychology is not just a science in its own right, but makes important direct and indirect contributions to other Science, Technology, Engineering, […]
The life sciences have made major contributions to our knowledge and understanding, but utilising that knowledge for maximum benefit often requires different […]