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271. The misuse of colour in science communication 272. Click 273. 52 things I learned in 2021 274. 52 Snippets from 2021 275. If Marx or Freud had never lived? 276. How we became weekly 277. How To Learn Stuff Quickly 278. An Ex-Drinker’s Search for a Sober Buzz 279. Using spider-web patterns to determine […]

There has been a lot of scholarly attention devoted to explaining why policies have feedback effects on public opinion. In my review of the policy feedback literature, I made the following observation on the attention to potential explanations in the literature (p. 374): Soss and Schram (2007), for example, elaborate that policies change basic features […]

I was reading The Book of Questions (the revised and updated 2013 edition) by Gregory Stock and I decided to answer all of the questions. Here they are – in the order the questions are asked in the book. Of course, I can’t provide the questions in this post but I have formulated the answers […]

351. Preservation of historical heritage increases bird biodiversity in urban centers (Bhakti et al. 2021) 352. Torturers in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq justified their actions morally by diffusing responsibility, blaming victims, and using just-cause thinking (Einolf 2021) 353. Dogs exhibit social skills and interest in human faces by 8 weeks of age (Bray et al. 2021) […]

Governments around the world need to cut emissions. However, there is not a simple template to use and, most importantly, different initiatives will not attract the same level of public support. For that reason, we need to consider how governments can most effective cut emissions with the support of the public. In a new report […]