How can we explain governance failures in boards of directors? Part of the answer lies in the way directors use their expertise and understand their role on the board.
It is important to educate the public about scientific research, discoveries and applications.
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Conversations about scientific research and technological innovations allow the public to build trust with experts, and understand the impacts on everyday lives.
Michael Gove claimed in 2016 that ‘people in this country have had enough of experts’.
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We should seize opportunities to test expert predictions – as we did, seeing how much bird experts got right about which birds would return to revegetated farmland.
Not every ‘expert’ has the expertise to back up their argument.
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How to use language clues to see through someone’s ‘expert’ facade.
Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe demonstrate against the war in Ukraine, Monday, March 14, 2022 in Strasbourg, eastern France.
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As we observe with the war in Ukraine, humanities skills are crucial for understanding 21st-century problems.
However Rodgers came to his decision to remain unvaccinated, he did not follow the tenets of critical thinking.
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Critical thinking means seeking out new information – especially facts that might run contrary to what you believe – and being willing to change your mind. And it’s a teachable skill.
Athletes’ game-time concentration is legendary – but what should they be focusing on?
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A researcher who studies physical skills explains how getting your conscious thoughts out of the way lets your body do what it knows how to do, better.
The coronavirus crisis has given experts and specialists worldwide a lot of power. As countries like New Zealand begin to recover, we need to question that power more than ever.
Professor Deborah Terry AO speaks of the importance of university expertise, academic freedom, university collaborations with business and international education.
It’s hard work, but reading scientific literature can be very valuable.
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Human beings seem to be born wearing rose-colored glasses. Psychologists are interested in how this bias toward the positive works in the very young – and how it fades over time.
Dana and David Dornsife Professor of Psychology and Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria