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 did 50 years ago:
… Read the rest “We spend more time with kids than our grandparents did.”Mothers — and fathers
PhysOrg is offering a tub of hot, buttered aesthetic vindication with its survey revealing that high education correlates with a love for awful movies:
… Read the rest “Highly educated audiences prefer trash films.”However, with three sequels and
Nature skips past the blue-and-black dress to ask: Have you seen the one about viral scholarship?:
… Read the rest “Viral science – things that spread fast.”In a paper due to appear in Management Science, Sharad Goel and his collaborators propose
Or so says a new analysis published in Nature. That’s 4% of condemned people who would be exonerated given enough time:
… Read the rest “1 in 25 Death Row inmates don’t belong there.”Few convictions result in an exoneration, most of those convicted
ABC (the Australian network) muses on the next generation… wondering why the kids are avoiding alcohol nowadays:
… Read the rest “Kids these days… so *sober*.”The findings of a survey of more than 2,500 young people published
The Atlantic reveals the fluid dynamics of deadly mob disasters that shows how crowds can be so blindly powerful:
… Read the rest “Fear of crowds – it might not be so irrational.”“It happens like magic,” says Dirk Helbing, a professor in
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 known that offering… Read the rest “About those CEO bonuses: How financial incentives make us less creative.”
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 than standard employment… Read the rest “Facebook more efficient than IQ tests at determining employability. (Yeah, HR will be reading your updates.)”
“Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson answering the… Read the rest “And now, a word from Neil deGrasse Tyson…”
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 live in lots of different social… Read the rest “Humans: The *sociable* ape?”
Scientific American interviews Brian David Johnson, Intel’s “future caster,” who combines science fiction with software and hardware design to predict what’s… Read the rest “The professional prophet of Intel.”
PhysOrg reveals a one-sided increase in sexual imagery. Men are as manly now as in years past, but women are getting more “pornified” than ever:
… Read the rest “Women are getting sexier… on the page.”Erin Hatton, PhD, and Mary Nell
We’ve got until August 2013. All of us. Technology Review is teaching us how we can count down to the food riots:
… Read the rest “Food riots in five…four…three…”… Marco Lagi and buddies at the New England Complex Systems Institute
Time reveals more of the Pentagon’s social media warfare research:
… Read the rest “The Twitter trenches”The new Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program was submitted under the Defense Advanced Research
Ten percent. That’s all it takes to start a mob or to sell a coup d’etat. ScienceBlog digs up the numbers we need to make a change. Once 10 percent accept a thing as a rock-solid … Read the rest “The math of the madness of crowds.”
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