Cochrane Reviews | The Cochrane Collaboration

Cochrane Reviews | The Cochrane Collaboration: "Cochrane Reviews are systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy. They investigate the effects of interventions (literally meaning to intervene to modify an outcome) for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. They also assess the accuracy of a diagnostic test for a given condition in a specific patient group and setting."

Needham Research Institute - Research Opportunities

Needham Research Institute - Research Opportunities: "RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowships for U.S.-Based Scholars
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowships for CHINA-Based Scholars
Li Foundation Fellowship

The Soon-Young Kim Studentship in the History of East Asian Science and Technology"

Big Think Interview with Tal Ben-Shahar | Tal Ben-Shahar | Big Think

Big Think Interview with Tal Ben-Shahar | Tal Ben-Shahar | Big Think: "Question: What distinguishes the field of positive psychology?
Tal Ben-Shahar: Positive psychology essentially focuses on what works. So it applies to research; most research in psychology looks at schizophrenia, depression, anxiety; whereas, positive psychology says let's look at the things that work in life. Let's look at love, let's look at happiness, let's look at joy, job satisfaction, and so on. Positive psychology also focuses on what works when it comes to practice. So for instance, a therapist, the first implicit or explicit question that he or she would ask, the client would be what's wrong, what's not working in your life. A positive psychologist would first ask what is working, what is going well in your life and then build on that and then deal with what is not working based on what is working. Same in organizations; a consultant would usually ask what's the problem in your organization, what do we need to improve. A positive psychologist coming in to a company would first ask what is working well in their organization, what are the companies strengths, what are the virtues and then build on that."

The fog of currency war | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists

The fog of currency war | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists: "Criticism of China’s exchange-rate policy continues throughout the US. This column argues that the US is in fact the exchange rate manipulator, due to its ongoing quantitative easing. What the US needs to do for a sustainable turnaround is to learn from other successful economies like China and Germany – not de-rail them.


One way to expose the economic mumbo-jumbo that is applied to the Chinese exchange rate by otherwise respectable economists is to look at it from the perspective of Germany and international trade."