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 […]
Canadian Librarians Suggest Secondary Publishing Rights to Improve Public Access to Research
The Canadian Federation of Library Associations recently proposed providing secondary publishing rights to academic authors in Canada.
History Offers Way Forward for Ukrainian Scientific System
Research shows that local and international policymakers can minimize the harm suffered by Ukrainian science by providing direct funding to researchers, creating remote research positions and offering research opportunities abroad to Ukrainian scientists.
Are We Unnecessarily Using Diagnostic Frameworks Beyond Health Settings?
Diagnosis is so important to understanding our lives and those around us that it’s often applied outside of the health setting.
Juneteenth Is But One of the United States’ 20 Emancipation Days
Between the 1780s and 1930s, more than 80 emancipations from slavery occurred, from Pennsylvania in 1780 to Sierra Leone in 1936.
Unskilled But Aware: Rethinking The Dunning-Kruger Effect
As a math professor who teaches students to use data to make informed decisions, I am familiar with common mistakes people make when dealing with numbers. The Dunning-Kruger effect is the idea that the least skilled people overestimate their abilities more than anyone else. This sounds convincing on the surface and makes for excellent comedy. But in a recent paper, my colleagues and I suggest that the mathematical approach used to show this effect may be incorrect.
Obaro Ikime, 1936-2023: Scholar of Nigerian and African Identity
Obaro Ikime died on 25 April 2023, aged 86. He fought valiantly, and ultimately successfully, to get the discipline of history restored to Nigerian higher education.
Aporophobia: Why People Reject The Poor
The idea that the poor are impoverished morally as well as materially, that they lack humanity as well as means, has a long history.
Is Wikipedia A Good Academic Resource?
As research and instruction librarians, we know people have concerns about using Wikipedia in academic work. And yet, in interacting with undergraduate and graduate students doing various kinds of research, we also see how Wikipedia can be an important source for background information, topic development and locating further information.
