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Overreaching causal language in the social sciences

Overreaching causal language in the social sciences

Across the social sciences, many studies use cross-sectional designs that reveal associations but are generally unable to support direct causal claims, yet authors of such articles may make or imply c...

August 26, 2026
Emergent Ventures winners, 58th cohort

Emergent Ventures winners, 58th cohort

Jethro Elsden, London area, to study the regulatory structure of the UK using AI. Paula Benedetti, Buenos Aires, marine biology work in Brazil. Nyida Gyal, 17, northern Virginia, AI and data. Gabe Sek...

August 26, 2026
Towards a New House of Lords

Towards a New House of Lords

In Britain, the House of Lords was traditionally dominated by hereditary peers–a right bequeathed by the monarch, sometimes in ancient times, to sit in the House of Lords that was transmitted generati...

August 25, 2026
That was then, this is now

That was then, this is now

In 1914 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and David Ben-Gurion, the president and prime minister of Israel after 1948 respectively, were in the Ottoman capital studying law at Istanbul University.  They had studied Ott...

August 25, 2026
Common sense in charge

Common sense in charge

…children are increasingly seen as interfering with the freedom of parents; views on whether mothers of young children should work have become markedly more progressive and account for a substantially...

August 24, 2026
Monday assorted links

Monday assorted links

1. There is now a formal 150 kph (93.2 mph) speed limit in one part of Czechia. 2. Why does the Japanese prime minister spend so much time in seclusion? 3. Decker defends academia (noting I do not thi...

August 24, 2026
Has the European turnaround finally arrived?

Has the European turnaround finally arrived?

Europe just had its best reporting season in years. Companies in the benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 index boosted earnings per share by 18% on average in the second quarter compared with a year earlier. E...

August 22, 2026