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What Makes Research Excellent?

Toni Pustovrh
Academia, Science & Medicine
What makes research excellent? Digging into the measures aimed at quantifying and promoting research excellence. In modern societies, scientific and technological (S&T) developments are generally regarded...

Keep Calm and Enjoy the Silence: On the Pains and Pleasures of Doing Research in Egypt

Y. Elsayed
Politics & Economics
In the fall of 2006, I walked down Tahrir Square alone, after naively showing up to a protest that never took place. All I could muster was a look of silent disdain at the tens of security officers who showed...

Should We Let Science Be Funny?

Matthew Partridge
Science & Medicine
Science engagement is a funny thing. Not “haha” funny, more “hmm, it’s eaten through the floor…” funny. On the one hand, science is often looked upon as being very much people in lab coats walled...

Abseiling From the Ivory Tower

Rosa Fernandez
Education, Politics & Economics
Increasing numbers of docs and postdocs follow a career path outside academia; they are not failures but successes in the eyes of employers across universities and businesses. Last year, almost 25,000 PhDs...
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Know More About the Art and Science of Waiting

Hippo Reads Staff
News
Earlier this month, Faith Kearns brought you the Art and Science of Waiting, which has become one of Hippo’s top posts in 2015. The post features the research of Kate Sweeny, an associate professor of...

Academic Dishonesty: Cracks in the Ivory Tower? When Academic Methodologies Fail

Anna Redmond
Society & Culture
“Married Couples Live Longer.” “Caffeine Could Impair Women’s Fertility.” “Walnuts Improve Reaction to Stress.” For centuries, academic research has worked to solve real world problems in...

The Placebo Effect: The Science of Placebos

Anna Redmond
Medicine, Psychology, Science, Science & Medicine
As Allied troops stormed the beaches of Italy, a nurse and an anesthesiologist anxiously watched a wounded soldier.  He was in severe pain and on the verge of shock, but their supply of morphine had run...

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