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 […]
No Longer Giving Away the Farm, Data Sharing Creates Industry-Wide Results
Where sharing industry information was once thought of as “giving away the farm,” it has since grown into its role as a commonplace technique capable of generating big results.
Would Legislation Make Campus Free Speech Less Free?
Around the United States, state lawmakers have been talking about – and legislating – ways intended to protect free speech on college campuses. Bt some of the approaches may do more harm than good, argues Neal Hutchens.
Is Karl Marx Living at this Hour?
David Canter reviews the evidence amassing to show the depredations of economic inequality.
How Fake News Pulls Real News Into Its Orbit
Is the problem with fake news that individual stories confuse people? Or could it be, argues a new paper, that fake news sets the agenda that other and more legitimate media then follow?
Weighing the Impact Agenda: Does Knowledge on Its Own Matter?
Academics in the United Kingdom and in Australia interviewed about the impact agenda show fears that the balance between applied and basic knowledge may be tilting too far in one way.
Grenfell Tower: The Missing Social Dimension of Fire Regulations
Fire safety is not just an issue for engineers. People build buildings, people live in buildings, and people use (and abuse) buildings. That creates a need for social and behavioral work to accompany every nail driven.
Overcoming the Politics and Economics of Social and Economic Fragmentation in the Name of Kids
The Social Security Administration has shown its ability to cut monthly checks for elderly, survivors and disabled. So why not for kids via their parents?
Report Says NSF Support of Social Sciences Vital to Nation
The National Science Foundation can do a lot more to articulate the transcendent value of the social, behavioral and economic sciences in both its portfolio and its outputs, says a new report from the National Academies.
