Thoughts and Feels

This year, the whole world watches as Americans will choose a new president. In order to do so, the political preferences of millions of Americans must be aggregated in order to decide a single winner, the next President. This is known as a soc

Episode Four - Esra Burak Ho

Jul 2nd, 2016 35m 22s

Social scientists, for various purposes are interested in measuring the collective opinions of a society involving a range of issues, often in order to make policy recommendations and to predict the outcomes of elections and referendums. The mo

Episode Three - Gray Kochhar-Lindgren

Jun 18th, 2016 27m 18s

Money facilitates trade of goods and services and powers the global economy in many ways, ranging from a child’s lunch money to the world of international finance. Most discussions of money focus on the study of it from a rational standpoint, u

Episode Two - Diana Lemberg

Jun 4th, 2016 28m 12s

We live in an information age. For centuries information has been recorded, distributed and preserved through the medium of paper. The past century has seen movements away from paper as an information storage medium in favor of microfilm and di

Episode One - Liz Jackson

May 22nd, 2016 36m 22s

In this first episode, I sit down with Dr. Liz Jackson, Assistant professor of Education at the University of Hong Kong. Professor Jackson has recently presented work about Last Week Tonight with John Oliver that explores the use of humor in mo

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