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 […]
Fear of Listening to Patients: Short-sighted on Long Covid
A psychiatrist’s recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal argues that long Covid is psychosomatic. Steve Lubet asks why the writer is dictating to patients rather than listening to them.
‘That’s an Idea Worth exploring’: Age-friendly Initiatives and Death-Friendly Communities
Death looms larger than usual during a global pandemic. An age-friendly community works to make sure people are connected, healthy and active throughout their […]
The Irrationality of Risk Calculations
David Canter considers how it is that people judge vaccination related risks so bizarrely.
The COVID-19 Mental Health Curve
The mental health crisis triggered by COVID-19 is escalating rapidly. One example: When compared to a 2018 survey, U.S. adults are now eight times more likely […]
Social Scientists in the Time of COVID-19: The South African Experience
It is the role of the social sciences and the humanities, on the basis of evidence, to affirm where official policy is in the public interest, but also to point to where it is not.
SSRC Report Tackles COVID-Driven Growing Data Economy
In a time of crisis, it might seem like a necessity to share your data in the hopes it might help solve […]
Vaccine Passports, Governments, and Adult Movies
Immunity certification for adult movies developed in California during the late 1990s, after a serious outbreak of HIV among the performers. Robert Dingwall examines the model in light of calls for a coronavirus passport system for the vaccinated.
Video: Social Connectedness during COVID-19
Clinical psychologist Tegan Cruwys discusses the concept of social connectedness and how being ‘together apart’ is both possible and crucial during the coronavirus pandemic.
