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 […]
Tough on Crime or Beating the System?
An evaluation of Missouri Department of Mental Health’s Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity Murder Acquittees.
Open Access publishing: A Personal View
We are personally skeptical about many of the major premises of Open Access Publishing, and we are certain that many of the potential implications have not been thought through. The Finch Report pays remarkably little heed to the detailed arrangements that may need to be put in place.
Writing the North Atlantic Bubble, part 2
Many sociology departments teach along conventionalist, Eurocentric lines. Nonetheless, a reformulation of the scope of the sociological curriculum seems to be slowly taking shape.
Lie Detection by Inducing Cognitive Load
Eye movements and other cues to the false answers of “witnesses” to crimes.
Patients, Athletes, Freaks?
Just Google “Paralympian” and you will find a plethora of stories that describe how a Paralympian heroically overcomes their tragic, freak-like disabled body in order to inspirationally compete in disability sport.
Moving Beyond Deterrence
The Effectiveness of Raising the Expected Utility of Abstaining from Terrorism in Israel
Rebel Manhood
With poverty now rising to levels not seen in a generation, many scholars are revisiting the still controversial theories connecting culture to class. Currently the great recession is accelerating the outsourcing and deindustrialization that has been decimating the economic well-being of all Americans for almost a generation.
Why Open Access will Stifle Innovation
It is curious that the UK government department promoting Business, Innovation and Skills should be so committed to a policy that might almost be designed to achieve the opposite effect.
