Tag: social sciences
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October 06, 2007 02:10 AM EDT --
OK.
I have to share.
So, as some of you know, I'm a graduate student. And one of the things I get to do as a grad student, is grade undergrad papers.
This latest project has . . .
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July 15, 2006 09:59 PM EDT --
CIA Disbands Bin Laden Hunt Unit, China View
Excerpts: The CIA has disbanded a unit set up to hunt for Osama bin Laden and reassigned its agents in what intelligence officials described as a recognition . . .
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July 16, 2006 07:28 PM EDT --
Seeking Answers From The Cosmic Consciousness, AP/Boston Globe
Excerpts: By yesterday afternoon, nearly 17,000 Yahoo Inc. users had responded.
Hawking's question: ``In a world that is in chaos politically, . . .
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July 20, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
What Kind of Genius Are You?, Wired
Excerpts: A new theory suggests that creativity comes in two distinct types -- quick and dramatic, or careful and quiet. "Conceptual innovators" make bold, . . .
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August 17, 2006 12:12 AM EDT --
Doctors Offer To Maim Beggars In TV Sting, Reuters
Excerpts: Three Indian doctors caught on camera apparently agreeing to amputate the healthy limbs of beggars are to be questioned by the Indian Medical . . .
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June 09, 2009 09:02 AM EDT --
To Whom It May Concern:
Do you have any work available for a freelance writer/editor/reviewer? To share about myself, briefly:
I'm a working writer. I've written a published novel ( Beltane from . . .
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July 22, 2006 01:31 AM EDT --
Terrorist Had Been Trying To Set Up Global Network: Experts, Sidney Morning Herald
Excerpts: At the time of his death, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was trying to transform his organisation from one focused on . . .
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August 06, 2006 02:16 AM EDT --
Awash In A Sea Of Debt, Barrons Online
Excerpts: At a conference on contrarian investing last fall, Dean LeBaron excused himself from the luncheon table in search of a "hot spot." This time . . .
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August 15, 2006 12:33 AM EDT --
Surfing The Web With Nothing But Brainwaves, Business
Excerpts: Kiss your keyboard goodbye: Soon we'll jack our brains directly into the Net - and that's just the beginning. Brain-reading technology . . .
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September 08, 2006 02:03 AM EDT --
Fingers of Instability, Frontlinethoughts.com
Editor's Note: This is a discussion of how to apply Per Bak's sand pile model of self-organized criticality to complex systems like markets.
Excerpts: . . .
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September 15, 2006 09:03 PM EDT --
Chimpanzees Can Transmit Cultural Behavior To Multiple 'Generations', ScienceDaily
Excerpts: Transferring knowledge through a chain of generations is a behavior not exclusive to humans, according . . .
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July 15, 2006 09:56 PM EDT --
I Robot, Your Companion, ScienceDaily
Excerpt: Robotic technology is advancing apace and now a top team of European scientists and engineers hope to make the leap from single function 'dumb' . . .
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July 15, 2006 09:57 PM EDT --
Identifying Systems' New Initial Conditions As Influence Points For The Future, Foresight
Excerpts: Abstract: Purpose - The purpose of this research paper is to review and contrast traditional foresight . . .
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July 22, 2006 01:29 AM EDT --
Population and Warfare: A Test of the Turchin Model in Puebloan Societies, SFI Working Papers
Excerpt: Ecologist Peter Turchin and anthropologist Andrey Korotayev (2006) propose that pre-state societies . . .
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July 22, 2006 01:30 AM EDT --
Corporate Warriors: The State and Changing Forms of Private Armed Force in America, Current Perspectives in Social Theory
Excerpts: In recent years, and especially with the war in Iraq, the U.S. military's . . .
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July 28, 2006 04:25 AM EDT --
Maybe We Should Leave That Up to the Computer, NYTimes
Excerpts: A professor has been studying the decisions that managers make, and is convinced that computer models can do a better job of it.(...) . . .
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July 28, 2006 04:27 AM EDT --
Increasing Consumer Preferences By Manipulating Memory, ScienceDaily
Excerpts: Consumer preferences for a brand can be increased over the competition by techniques used to manipulate memory, finds research . . .
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July 31, 2006 11:55 PM EDT --
Better Be Convincing or Better Be Stylish?, JASSS
Abstract: Very often in the history of mankind, social changes took place because a minority was successful in persuading the dominant majority of a . . .
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August 15, 2006 12:30 AM EDT --
Gender Differences In Smiling: An Evolutionary Neuroandrogenic Theory, Physiol. & Behav.
Excerpts: Studies have found that, under a wide variety of social circumstances, females are more likely than . . .
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September 05, 2006 11:42 AM EDT --
Born to Be Good, NYTimes Book Review
Excerpts: The Harvard scientist Marc Hauser argues that the roots of morality are found in nature, not nurture.
He [Marc Hauser, Ed.] believes that ¡§policy . . .
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