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 […]
Mary Bosworth on Border Criminology
Border criminology, Mary Bosworth details in this Social Science Bites podcast, is trying to understand both things that are happening at the border but also things that are happening in our criminal justice system.
Centennials: Events of the Last Century Impinge on this One
During the past month, the number 100, usually associated with the word days, has been prominent in our public discourse. This column will not add to the cacophony of assessments, condemnations, or in some quarters, celebrations of the new American president. Instead, it will focus on another time frame for 100, years.
Behavioral Evidence Hub Seeks to Link Research With Solutions
A new website promises to spotlight evidence-based initiatives that offer deep insight into tough problems – from staying in college and increasing savings rates to improving medication adherence and vaccination uptake – into a single tool.
Negotiating Brexit – A Clash of Legal Cultures?
Membership in the European Union was a contract, and the differing legal approaches between situational British common law and the more codified French approach helps explain some of the rancor as Brexit comes to be applied.
Fake News Reveals Truths About Our Digital Age
‘By looking more closely at how fake news moves and mobilizes people, we can develop a richer picture of not only how much it circulates where, but also why it circulates and how it resonates amongst different publics.’
Activist-Scholar Award Goes to Economist Samuel Myers Jr.
The Urban Affairs Association will present this year’s Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award to Samuel Myers Jr., an economist who has pioneered methods that prove the pervasiveness of inequality.
Honoring Two Unsung Heroes of the Federal Statistical System
Howard Silver looks at two distinguished individuals who have toiled for long periods of time in an area that receives attention only from those who understand the importance of data and statistics to the well-being of a democratic state
‘Health of People’ Kickoff Calls Childhood Obesity ‘National Scandal’
A new report from Britain’s Campaign for Social Science aims to show how social and behavioral science can be harnessed to both fight existing health problems and develop good habits for the future.
