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 […]
sociology
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 […]
Fear of crowds – it might not be so irrational.
The Atlantic reveals the fluid dynamics of deadly mob disasters that shows how crowds can be so blindly powerful: “It happens like magic,” says Dirk […]
About those CEO bonuses: How financial incentives make us less creative.
Nature blogger Graham Morehead isn’t looking over any new research with this post, which makes it all the more remarkable. Since the early 1960s, we’ve […]
Facebook more efficient than IQ tests at determining employability. (Yeah, HR will be reading your updates.)
Forbes takes us one step closer to the Facebook-dominated society with a Northern Illinois University study that finds a quick social media review works better […]
And now, a word from Neil deGrasse Tyson…
“Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson answering […]
Humans: The *sociable* ape?
That’s the idea behind a study by University of Oxford and the University of Auckland researchers in PhysOrg. The scientists found that our ability to […]
The professional prophet of Intel.
Scientific American interviews Brian David Johnson, Intel’s “future caster,” who combines science fiction with software and hardware design to predict what’s happening next: How can […]