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		<title>where is the attention?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, my dog wonders something about me. Perhaps: Will I will play with him? He stares at my face, which means he must look quite far above his own head. His nostrils may twitch, and I guess that he is gathering as much data as he can with his nose. His head is cocked, which [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35945">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>preparing for a threat to the fall election</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under the headline &#8220;This Is What&#8217;s Keeping Me Up at Night,&#8221; New York Times columnist (and Charles F. Kettering Foundation Senior Fellow) David French sketches a disturbing scenario. The Democrats may win a majority of House seats this fall. Donald Trump and many allies would decry the election as rigged and corrupt. When the House [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35941">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>what it would take for the public to trust science</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[civic theory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 19, the President posted on the social media platform that he owns: The National Academy of Sciences has historically published analytical Scientific Manuals expressly for our Federal Judiciary. Of course, the Academy has been run by Radical Left Dumocrats who, it turns out, published fraudulent, biased, and misleading Manuals on Climate Change. These [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35917">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>paradigms of attention</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that you run a laboratory in which you give people or animals stimuli (for instance, showing them shapes on a screen or making sounds) and you record their responses. Sometimes, your subjects miss things in interesting ways. For example, in the Invisible Gorilla experiment, viewers are told to count how many times players pass [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35895">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>profiles of engaged scholars</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[academia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Civically engaged political science (CER) research &#8230;. involves political scientists collaborating in a mutually beneficial way with people and groups beyond the academy to co-produce, share, and apply knowledge related to power or politics, contributing to self-governance&#8221; (Rasmussen et al 2021). In this definition, the word &#8220;civic&#8221; refers to &#8220;How people govern themselves. Engaged research [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35887">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>civically engaged research in political science</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35878</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am at the eighth Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER), a program of the American Political Science Association. Each summer, we gather about 20 political scientists (advanced PhD students, professors, and PhDs working outside academia) for four days of discussions about engaged research, which generally means research conducted in partnership with people or entities [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35878">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>there will always be an England</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think most of you are following the multidimensional &#8220;Posh George&#8221; story as closely as you should. George Cottrell, 32, is reported to have given substantial but undisclosed gifts to Nigel Farage, the Reform MP for Clacton and the would-be Donald Trump of the UK. &#8220;Posh George&#8221; grew up on the private Caribbean island [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35868">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Propose a Session for Frontiers of Democracy 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Propose a session for Frontiers of Democracy 2026. The conference theme is &#8220;The United States at 250: Meeting the Moment for Democracy, in the US and Aound the World&#8221; (October 2 &#8211; 4 at Tufts University in Medford, MA) Frontiers of Democracy is an annual conference at Tufts University&#8217;s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35856">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>ten thoughts about time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Caveat: there is a large literature on the philosophy of time that I have not investigated carefully. The following thoughts may be naive.] Like all species on this planet, we evolved in an environment strongly marked by the regular movements of the earth and moon in the presence of the sun. Most species respond to [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35837">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>why the humanities could never be automated</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35823</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, we want to answer questions to accomplish practical outcomes. For example, we want to know whether a vaccine works so that we can decide whether to use it. Or we may seek basic insights about viruses so that we can develop vaccines in the first place. Sometimes, we want to know things because we [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35823">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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