Ergebnis für "experimenter" in Sozialwissenschaften

Drei der entscheidenden Entwicklungen, die unsere Zukunft im 21. Jahrhundert bestimmen werden - die der Weltbevölkerung, die des Klimawandels und die von digitaler Hardware - haben etwas gemeinsam. Sie sind Phänomene des exponentiellen Wachstums. Die schlechte Nachricht: Schon immer haben wir Menschen uns schwer damit getan, solche Entwicklungen zu Ende zu denken. Die gute: Wir sind eine lernfähige Spezies... Wird es uns gelingen, die mächtigen technologischen Entwicklungen so einzusetzen, dass sie uns und die Erde retten?

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi one of the greatest men to walk this earth, begins the story of his life with descriptions of his childhood in Porbandar and Rajkot in Gujarat, his schooldays, his early marriage, the lessons he learnt when he tried stealing, told lies and smoked cigrattes, and his...

One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer “[A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy, in the US or anywhere else, should read this book.” —Anne Applebaum “A convincing, humane, and hopeful guide to the present and future by one of...

Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments - also known as randomized controlled trials - designed to test the impact of different online experiences. In this book, Michael Luca and Max Bazerman explain the importance of experiments for decision making in a data-driven world.

Since grade school, Joseph Osmundson dreamed of being pregnant. As he grew into the queer scientist he is today, the economic precarity of academia and the warming planet led to his decision not to reproduce. That is, until a couple he had known since college, two women, came to him with a proposition: would Joe be a bio-dad and would he co-parent alongside them?

The author describes the experience of being in bombed-out, dangerous, post-war Nuremberg, where she lived for two years while working on the trial. This landmark trial resulted in the establishment of the Nuremberg Code, which sets the guidelines for medical research involving human beings. Doctors from Hell is a significant addition to the literature on World War II and the Holocaust, medical ethics, human rights, and the barbaric depths to which human beings can descend.

In Brainwashing, Kathleen Taylor brings the worlds of neuroscience and social psychology together for the first time. In elegant and accessible prose, and with abundant use of anecdotes and case-studies, she examines the ethical problems involved in carrying out the required experiments on humans, the limitations of animal models, and the frightening implications of such research. She also explores the history of thought-control and reveals how it persists all around us, from marketing and television to politics and education.

Each week, we tell the story of what happens when individual people confront deeply held American ideals in their own lives. We're interested in the cultural and political contradictions that reveal who we are.

When the American government was founded, the Founders and Framers assumed a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. That government is dying. It is under the authority of not we, the people, but rather a small elite that is trying to snuff out the great experiment of man ruling himself - the common man - the man that within the right system of government can attain his purpose to achieve happiness.

Author Byron Williams has written one of the most compelling books of 2023. Through the use of short stories and nonfiction essays, Our American Experiment offers a searing exploration of present-day America, while allowing room for the listener to draw his or her own conclusions.

Stephen C. Richards, an ex-convict who served time in nine federal prisons before earning his PhD in criminology, argues the supermax prison era began in 1983 at USP Marion in southern Illinois, where the first "control units" were built by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Marion Experiment, told from a convict criminology perspective, offers an introduction to long-term solitary confinement and supermax prisons, followed by a series of first-person accounts by prisoners....

These true selected stories of The Noble Experiment: True Stories & Hard Truths from My Time in the DEA invite listeners to peek at the inside life of a DEA Agent. Working in the volatile "Cocaine Cowboys” era and crack epidemic of the 1980s, Dave Gaddis earned a reputation as a man who could not be compromised. He continued his work during the drug invasion of the US Southwest Border of the 1990s and the methamphetamine, opioid and fentanyl crises of the 2000s.

Klimaaktivist*innen und Beschäftigte aus dem Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier wagen ein Experiment gegen die Sprachlosigkeit in tiefen gesellschaftlichen Konflikten. Was hatten sie sich zu sagen? Und haben sie einander zugehört? Ein Wissenschaftspodcast der Institute für Politische Wissenschaft und für Soziologie an der RWTH Aachen in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Aachener Theater und Partnern aus der Zivilgesellschaft

A U.S. Navy ship vanishes during a secret World War II experiment gone awry. When it re-appears, observers are horrified to see crew members embedded in the deck and steel of the ship. During a sea trial, the ship vanishes and travels through time, setting off a number of events that continue today. It's not science fiction, it's science fact!

Hallo, herzlich willkommen und schön, dass du da bist und uns zuhörst. Ich bin Janka und zusammen mit Moni nehmen wir dich mit auf eine ganz besondere Reise. Dies ist keine klassische Reise durch die Welt da draußen, durch ferne Länder und Kulturen, sondern eine Forschungsreise in meine Innenwelt, in die Welt der Gedanken, Gefühle und Traumata, in die Welt des Egos (Horst) und die meines wahren Selbsts, der bedingungslosen Liebe, dem inneren Frieden, der Glückseligkeit, der Freiheit. Ich nenne diese Reise das "Experiment Freiheit". Warum mache ich das? Schon als sehr junge Erwachsene „...

Two podcasters. One robot cotton candy vending machine. Zero hype. Basically Passive is a documentary series following Dan and Jennifer as they build a vending machine business from scratch using the Sweet Robo Cotton Candy VX. Every week, we share the real numbers, the real problems, and the real lessons from a cotton candy vending side hustle. No guru nonsense. Just two people figuring it out and showing you what happens. Season 1 covers everything: finding a location, negotiating with venue owners, our first customers, our first breakdown, and exactly how much money we actually make (or ...

A provocative examination of reproductive technologies that questions our understanding of fertility, motherhood, and the female body Since the world’s first test-tube baby was born in 1978, in vitro fertilization has made the unimaginable possible for millions of people, but its revolutionary...

A curious man's journey to figure it all out - through deep conversations with experts, rebels, thinkers, and storytellers. Hosted by Rocky Rauner, The Self Experiment is an ongoing exploration of life, mindset, health, purpose, and human potential. No hype. No shortcuts. Just honest dialogue and a relentless search for better.

In einer Münchner Wohnanlage, wo die Mehrheit der Bewohner ausländische Wurzeln hat, entfaltet sich ein Mikrokosmos der Kulturen. Ein Schriftsteller, der neu in die Gegend gezogen ist, beobachtet die Piazza an der Bo und beschließt, die Geschichten seiner Nachbarn aus fast 20 Nationen zu erkunden. Von marokkanischen Hijabs bis zum chinesischen Händlern, von indischem Curry bis zu italienischer Pasta – diese Mischung zeigt, wie Integration vor sich geht.