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 […]
Making Sense of Crime Trends
Much of the current confusion about crime trends is born of the tendency to bunch together a whole range of different harms and actions under the abstract category of ‘crime’. This blinds us to where the significant problems are.
The Power of Speech
Gabrielsen, J., & Christiansen, T. J. (2010). The Power of Speech. Copenhagen, Denmark: Hans Reitzels, 187 pp. Success in the workplace often […]
Sparking a Revolution In Clean Energy?
Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome Alfred Marcus of the University of Minnesota, whose article “The Promise and Pitfalls of Venture […]
We Aren’t the World
Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics—and hoping to change the way social scientists think about human behavior and culture.
How Useful are E-Readers for Academic Reading, Really?
E-readers are now commonplace. But how useful are e-readers as a replacement for printed academic books and journal articles?
Study: Women CFOs Get Better Bank Loans
As Bloomberg recently reported, female chief financial officers (CFOs) are on the rise at a time when other top executive positions remain […]
Undercover Pressures
Some criminal investigations resonate over the years. Even if you’ve only had peripheral involvement with them, as in my case, they still […]
Social Media Gets ‘Collaborative’ in the Workplace
Reports have shown that the use of Twitter, Facebook, and blogging by the nation’s largest companies surged last year, but social media […]
