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 […]
What might be one of the most severe effects of the pandemic. According to two psychologists who contributed to the book Together […]
Our work in recent years has focused on how to prevent people from falling for misinformation in the first place, building on a framework from social psychology known as inoculation theory.
With this pandemic, argues Robert Dingwall, fear amplification has been policy, based on the advice of a particular group of behavioral scientists advising the United Kingdom’s government.
The reports from Britain’s hospitals in the last few days have been truly worrying. No one should doubt the reality of what […]
David Canter considers the tragic implications of people not understanding what they are told by politicians and experts.
It is possible that we could abolish death by COVID, argues Robert Dingwall, by continuing the restrictions of 2020 indefinitely – the problem, of course, is that we would simply die from something else.
The saga of the UK’s contact tracing app(s) should be an object lesson in how not to approach the use of technology in public policy – and why politicians in particular need to step back and rethink their approach to technology, and in particular to privacy.
Understanding how to create the conditions for a thriving civil society — that works in partnership with local governments and communities to […]