Science

Biased Algorithms Are Easier to Fix Than Biased People

January 12, 2020

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Sendhil Mullainathan that appeared in The New York Times. To read the complete article, check others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please click here. Credit: Tim Cook * * *…

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Payoff: A book review by Bob Morris

January 19, 2017

Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations Dan Ariely TED Books (November 2016) How and why people can have perpetual energy by investing in “a sense of connection, meaning, ownership, and long-term thinking” In Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded…

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Christine L. Borgman on “Big Data, Little Data, No Data, and Scholarship in the Networked World”

February 7, 2016

I have recently read and will soon review a book, Christine L. Borgman’s Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World (MIT Press 2015), that increased substantially my understanding of the multi-dimensional nature of data in various…

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Introducing Jennifer Aaker

June 22, 2015

A social psychologist and marketer, Jennifer Aaker is the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Her research spans time, money and happiness. She focuses on questions such as: What actually makes people happy, as…

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11 TED Talks by brilliant women in STEM

June 8, 2015

As you already know, there have been hundreds of books and articles published in recent years about the barriers that many women face when pursuing an education and then a career in what collectively is call the STEM disciplines: Science,…

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Our Gullible Brains: How our senses influence our thoughts

April 23, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Sarah Yager for The Atlantic. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration: Rami Niemi * * * Can a person be…

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The Brain’s Crowdsourcing Software

December 7, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Alison Gopnik for the Wall Street Journal. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Image credit: Magoz * * * Over the…

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Jonah Berger: An interview by Bob Morris

August 4, 2013

What leads products, ideas, and behaviors to catch on and become popular? Jonah Berger studies how word of mouth and social influence drive social epidemics and trends. He is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School at the…

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Thinking in Network Terms: A Conversation with Albert-lászló Barabási

July 15, 2013

Here is a portion of the transcript of Albert-lászló Barabási‘s conversation with John Brockman, founder and editor-in-chief of Edge.org. To watch the video and/or read the entire transcript, please click here. * * * One question that fascinated me in…

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Todd L. Pittinsky: An interview by Bob Morris

January 7, 2013

Todd L. Pittinsky is Professor of Technology and Society at SUNY Stony Brook and a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He was previously Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he served…

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