Community policing in the Global South

Professor Fotini Christia is part of a team examining the challenges of implementing community policing across a range of countries.

Stephanie M. McPherson | Institute for Data, Systems, and Society • mit
Nov. 29, 2021 ~7 min

Misremembering might actually be a sign your memory is working optimally

Errors don’t necessarily mean your mind is faulty. They may actually be a sign of a cognitive system with limited capacity working efficiently.

Robert Jacobs, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester • conversation
Nov. 19, 2021 ~10 min


Letting teens consent on their own may boost HPV vaccine rates

More teenagers might get the HPV vaccine if they could do so without involvement of their parents, a new study shows.

Fred Mamoun-Yale • futurity
Nov. 18, 2021 ~6 min

3 Questions: Sophie Gibert on ethics in action

PhD student's research centers on ethics, including bioethics, and the philosophy of action.

Kathryn M. O'Neill | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences • mit
Nov. 17, 2021 ~8 min

Is watching believing?

In spreading politics, videos may not be much more persuasive than their text-based counterparts.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 16, 2021 ~6 min

How to live with large predators – lessons from Spanish wolf country

A farming community in north-west Spain may hold the answer to coexistence with wild carnivores.

Hanna Pettersson, PhD Candidate, Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds • conversation
Nov. 15, 2021 ~7 min

Giving robots social skills

A new machine-learning system helps robots understand and perform certain social interactions.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 5, 2021 ~9 min

When and how was walking invented?

Walking has taken a very long time to develop, with evidence of bipedalism among early humans in Africa roughly 4.4 million years ago.

Jan Simek, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee • conversation
Nov. 1, 2021 ~7 min


This Amazon dam is supposed to provide clean energy, but it's destroying livelihoods and unique species

Diverting water to a hydroelectric dam might seem eco-friendly, but the devastating consequences to local ecosystems cannot be ignored.

Sonia Magalhaes, Adjunct Professor of Agrarian Sciences, Federal University of Pará • conversation
Nov. 1, 2021 ~8 min

Cures for the health insurance enrollment blues

An experiment in Indonesia shows how much subsidies and in-person assistance spur people to get insurance — and how many people stop trying.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 1, 2021 ~8 min

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