(Note: This post is cross-posted at The Research Centre in International Relations at King's College, London's Blog) Feminist theorists have long made and substantiated the argument that gender "matters" in International Relations (IR) theory and practice, and that it...
Recently, Mike Innes tweeted playfully that he feared the Duck had become a "creative writing" blog due to the proliferation of satirical posts about pop cultural topics. This tweet was in response...
Cliff Kuang at Fast Company points to a short, interesting talk by Alex Lundry of TargetPoint Consulting.Lundry quickly runs down the importance of infographics and data visualizations in the...
Ben Bernanke wants to assure people that the Fed isn't just throwing money at the current problems, unaware of the long-term impact on inflation. My colleagues and I believe that accomodative...
A brilliant aspect of the conference I just attended was the the fact that presenters were required to create YouTube versions of their research. Some of the videos I liked best are here.A radical idea: what if conference presenters at venues like ISA prepared 3-5 minute videos instead of giving 15-minute presentations. Panelists would appear but not speak until time to field questions. Each video would run, a discussant would present concise remarks for another 7 minutes, and questions would begin. Panel slots could perhaps be shortened somewhat. Imagine how much time this would leave for...
Yeh, I just can't stop celebrating all the awesome holidays at this time of year. Boxing Day, celebrated throughout the Commonwealth, has in many places become a version of Black Friday, but the true point of the holiday, of course, is to reverse roles with those higher or lower on the power chain than oneself. (Though, in our house we've never quite figured out how to let the kids take over our roles and still maintain a semblance of functionality around here... thoughts ye parent-readers of this blog?)Anyway, I like Justin Callaway's recipe for incorporating Boxing Day into America's...
A couple of weeks back I visited Arlington for the National Science Foundation's Human and Social Dynamics PI conference. The HSD Initiative is one of NSF's "cross-cutting" programs, which means the same pool of money funds political scientists, neurologists, roboticists, physicists, anything under the sun if the proposal is smart enough and vaguely related to the RFP. The point of their annual gatherings is in part to create interdisciplinary "synergy": to provoke conversations among scientists from diverse fields who would otherwise likely never meet.In practice, these gatherings are a bit...