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 […]
Maybe You Can’t Buy Happinesss, But You Can Teach About It
When you deliver a university course that makes students happier, everybody wants to know what the secret is. What are your tips? […]
Striving for Linguistic Diversity in Scientific Research
Each country has its own unique role to play in promoting greater linguistic diversity in scientific communication.
Survey Suggests University Researchers Feel Powerless to Take Climate Change Action
To feel able to contribute to climate action, researchers say they need to know what actions to take, how their institutions will support them and space in their workloads to do it.
A Former Student Reflects on How Daniel Kahneman Changed Our Understanding of Human Nature
Daniel Read argues that one way the late Daniel Kahneman stood apart from other researchers is that his work was driven by a desire not merely to contribute to a research field, but to create new fields.
To Better Forecast AI, We Need to Learn Where Its Money Is Pointing
By carefully interrogating the system of economic incentives underlying innovations and how technologies are monetized in practice, we can generate a better understanding of the risks, both economic and technological, nurtured by a market’s structure.
Three Decades of Rural Health Research and a Bumper Crop of Insights from South Africa
A longitudinal research project project covering 31 villages in rural South Africa has led to groundbreaking research in many fields, including genomics, HIV/Aids, cardiovascular conditions and stroke, cognition and aging.
Edward Webster, 1942-2024: South Africa’s Pioneering Industrial Sociologist
Eddie Webster, sociologist and emeritus professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, died on March 5, 2024, at age 82.
Four Reasons to Stop Using the Word ‘Populism’
Beyond poor academic practice, the careless use of the word ‘populism’ has also had a deleterious impact on wider public discourse, the authors argue.
