Reader preferences for liberal or conservative political books also attract them to different types of science books.
Satellite data on nighttime lights used to validate broad, macroeconomic theories of economic convergence and divergence.
Studying winners of 137 science prizes, we show that the occasional “gamble” for impact is a plausible reason for levels of risk-taking.
Here, we present a health research opportunity index (health ROI) to measure the misalignment of biomedical needs and resources.
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2014-2015 Distinguished Lectures in Computational Social Sciences featuring: Duncan Watts, Sendhil Mullainathan, Alex Pentland Read More
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