Nature has a fascinating piece of research (with great graphics, so please click through) on how exactly public opinions can be molded by a few […]
Nature has an essay up by a disinformation researcher, who wants us to know that disinformation is usually partially true, and mostly spread by people […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
UC Santa Cruz – or at least one of its professors – has raised an ominous warning of “robot gridlock,” caused when self-driving car algorithms […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Science Daily finds that those who give back also seem to be getting back – because people who volunteer for causes are in better health […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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