Fishermen who communicate make the environment healthier.
Hakai takes a sociological look at an ecological problem, with research that shows marine environments are measurably healthier in areas where fishermen communicate openly about […]
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An inoculation against fake news: a video game in which you create propaganda.
The University of Cambridge has studied 15,000 people and determined that playing a quick browser game is effective in getting folks to resist the seductive […]
A study of BS-ing finds the greatest exaggerators: boys from wealthy backgrounds.
The (not generally scientific, but…) Washington Post shares an elegantly constructed social science experiment that measures a person’s likelihood to bluff their way to success […]
Planner’s hellish prediction: Self-driving cars will circle, not park.
UC Santa Cruz – or at least one of its professors – has raised an ominous warning of “robot gridlock,” caused when self-driving car algorithms […]
Seattle schools prove later waking makes students more productive.
NPR reports on a year-long, city-wide study that proved one of those obvious things that for some reason we never act on: Teenagers do a […]
Bots and fake news: how it works
Science News is a leetle late to the game, but that’s the new reality. Researchers have completed some early studies on how fake news gets […]
Countries in the Eurovision contest are happier overall.
Science Daily finds a correlation between national satisfaction and participation in the Eurovision song contest. Even if your country loses, you and your neighbors will […]
The government is already paying less for science than you think (probably).
Science News looks at how much Americans *think* the government is paying to fund research. If scientists got what people thought they should get, the […]
Volunteers are healthier. (They also tend to be richer.)
Science Daily finds that those who give back also seem to be getting back – because people who volunteer for causes are in better health […]
How a Twitter-bot can stop harassment: a study in social programming
Washington Post checks the results from a NYU researcher’s experiment using bots to prevent racial harassment on Twitter – and what automated anti-racism says about […]
We spend more time with kids than our grandparents did.
Science Daily reassures us that at least we seem to be doing *something* right. This generation is spending more time with our kids than parents […]
Highly educated audiences prefer trash films.
PhysOrg is offering a tub of hot, buttered aesthetic vindication with its survey revealing that high education correlates with a love for awful movies: However, […]
Viral science – things that spread fast.
Nature skips past the blue-and-black dress to ask: Have you seen the one about viral scholarship?: In a paper due to appear in Management Science, […]
1 in 25 Death Row inmates don’t belong there.
Or so says a new analysis published in Nature. That’s 4% of condemned people who would be exonerated given enough time: Few convictions result in […]
Kids these days… so *sober*.
ABC (the Australian network) muses on the next generation… wondering why the kids are avoiding alcohol nowadays: The findings of a survey of more than […]