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Economic View: Why Worry? It’s Good for You
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 years ago
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May 14, 2011 THE late Amos Tversky , a Stanford psychologist and a founding father of behavioral economics, used to say, My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity...Klein Multimedia In recent decades, behavioral
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American wins Spanish social sciences award
Madrid :: Spain | 2 years ago
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Harvard University psychologist Howard Gardner has won Spain's Prince of Asturias award for social sciences in recognition of his studies of how human intellect expresses itself in different kinds of skills. The prize was
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City life no smooth ride as growth skyrockets
Beijing :: China | 2 years ago
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Rapid urbanization in China has created an increasing number of problems, ranging from traffic congestion, environmental pollution, urban disasters to a diminished sense of security, a report by the country's top think tank warned on Friday.
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Iran to revise university courses
Tehrān :: Iran | 2 years ago
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The report did not name the subjects, but officials said last year Iran would review 12 social science disciplines, including law, women's studies, human rights, management, sociology, philosophy and psychology.
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British studies, the latest import from the US?
Cambridge :: NY :: USA | 2 years ago
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British studies is a growing field in the US, bringing together many different disciplines...Zo e Corbyn British studies used to be motivated by Anglophilia, but that is changing. Photograph: Alamy For the last few weeks, Philippa Levine has been an
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Wanted: Fewer science nerds, more 'culturally competent' doctors
Wichita :: KS :: USA | 2 years ago
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The test that all medical school applicants take could place greater emphasis on behavioral and social sciences, adding a new component and lengthening the test to seven hours, if proposed changes are accepted...We want to broaden the knowledge base
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Technology Advances; Humans Supersize
Zagreb :: Croatia | 2 years ago
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For nearly three decades, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert W. Fogel and a small clutch of colleagues have assiduously researched what the size and shape of the human body say about economic and social changes throughout history, and vice
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Beijingers split on having only one child
Beijing :: China | 2 years ago
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In 2006 and 2008, the academy carried out interviews with more than 2,000 adult single children in two urban districts of Dongcheng and Haidian and a rural district of Changping, and found that 50.4% of both urban and rural residents want to give
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USB stolen privacy HKU students to vent 6800
University students have leaked information on the incident, the Hong Kong University Social Sciences, a clerk suspected breach of the Code of Practice, will contain nearly 6,800 students phone numbers, addresses, identity card numbers and other
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Francis Fukuyama’s Theory of the State
London :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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In discussing the origins of The Origins, Fukuyama is being modest, if not disingenuous. He is best known for the international sensation caused by the publication of his 1989 essay The End of History? The National Interest and the subsequent book
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