Kids of same-sex parents are… pretty normal, according to an international study.
The Guardian reports on a geographically broad study – a study of studies from many different countries – that looked at same-sex couples and found […]
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No sex, please. Not menopausal, just busy! (Research says.)
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine looked (I’m tempted to say “longingly”) at the sex lives of middle-aged women, and found the main […]
Researchers: one police stop makes a person less likely to vote.
Bolts magazine has an article by one of the researchers published in American Political Science Review who found that police interactions directly correlate with lower […]
Study: ChatGPT could earn an MBA from Wharton
A professor at the prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania – probably America’s most highly regarded business school – has found […]
Good friendships make a healthier gut biome (in monkeys, at least).
Phys.org passes along research led by Dr. Katerina Johnson of Oxford and Dr. Karli Watson of UC Boulder, who found that the more social a […]
Twitter’s collapse could wipe clean the historical record – of the last 16 years’ major moments, at least.
MIT Technology Review takes a serious look at the ramifications of having public discourse in private hands, especially when it comes to a written record […]
Sleep-deprived people are more selfish and lonely.
As a habitual night-owl, it pains me to consider this Scientific American interview with UC Berkeley neuroscientist Eti Ben Simon, whose research has shown that […]
Science Art: “Get Squid Facts” street art, Philadelphia, 2022.
A friend of mine clued me into this project. It really works and I encourage you to try it. Did you know cephalopods have been […]
SONG: False Social Reality
SONG: “False Social Reality”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature Communications 23 Aug 2022, “Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by […]
“False social reality”: More people care about climate change than you think. A LOT more.
Nature looks at a “false social reality” that shapes our government policy – a persistent, mistaken belief across the population that underestimates support for climate-change […]
Science Art: Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil…, Etienne Klein, 2022.
Maybe you saw this image on Twitter with a blurb like: Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil, située à 4,2 […]
Mind-reading helmet used to detect porn in China.
Maybe a half-step beyond “I know it when I see it.” PC Gamer repeats reports of some strange technological applications allegedly being tested in China, […]
Pop-song paradox: What it takes to be a one-hit wonder is the opposite of what it takes to have a long career.
Science News examines the science of the Top 40, with a survey of the charts that found what goes into that first, breakthrough hit is […]
People are having less sex.
Scientific American interviews two Indiana University researchers, Debby Herbenick and Tsung-chieh (Jane) Fu, who’ve found that folks of all ages are getting a little less […]
Singapore robots patrol against “anti-social behavior.”
Euronews.com reports on a new use for robots, to enforce social mores and good citizenship. Citizens seem less than pleased with the artificial politeness police, […]