Mark Murphy, ed. Social Theory and Education Research. Understanding Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu and Derrida, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2022 Book …
Mark Murphy, ed. Social Theory and Education Research Understanding Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu and Derrida – 2nd edition (2022)
Cities act as escalators out of poverty, as Edward Glaeser demonstrates. And yet, this very function drives poorer immigrants into urban regions – in search of jobs or access to better public services. More than half the world’s population now lives in urban areas , but most social assistance programs in developing countries have traditionally concentrated on the rural poor, with the bulk of past efforts on proper identification and targeting. The pandemic has shone a spotlight on the plight of the urban poor. When the pandemic hit, in the face of harsh lockdowns, the urban poor faced sudden shocks to their income and consumption. Governments in several countries were caught unprepared, with many lacking data on important questions – who are the urban poor? where do they live? how best to find them, and help them?
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen ? 18 October 2022
Every time someone in our community, the science skeptic or Realists community, speaks out about uncertainty and how it affects peer-reviewed scientific results, they are immediately accused to being Science Deniers or of trying to undermine the entire field of Science.
I have written again and again here about how the results of the majority of studies in climate science vastly underestimate the uncertainty of their results. Let me state this as clearly as possible: Any finding that does not honestly include a frank discussion of the uncertainties involved in the study, beginning with the uncertainties of the raw data and then all the way through the uncertainties added by each step of data processing, is not worth the digital ink used to publish it.
A new major multiple-research-group study, accepted and forthcoming in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
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