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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
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Is It Snowing on Pluto?
Snowfall is rare in our solar system. A tantalizing new image suggests that the dwarf planet may be one of the few places where it occurs
Life, Unbounded
Good-Bye Pluto, Thanks for Everything
Although we've only just begun to see the scientific return from NASA's New Horizons mission and its close encounter with the Pluto–Charon system, this has been an unexpectedly profound human endeavor...
Symbiartic
Pluto Flyby Already Inspiring Artists
As the probe whizzes past, paint is already being dabbed, splattered and scumbled. The Pluto flyby is astounding everyone including artists. Here are a few works of #sciart that really stood out to me on Twitter, marking this historic event and the images from the NASA team and the New Horizons probe...
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Death by Flatulence and Other Shortcomings of Big Data
Bizarre fatalities and the limitations of the data revolution emerge from a review of CDC records
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Governments Need to Nudge Citizens to Make Good Choices
Behavioral science, when used correctly, can help everybody win
Frontiers for Young Minds
Students Get Creative When Competing to Study Genes in Space
Creativity may not be a term that the average person would associate with DNA research or space exploration, but the youth science competition Genes in Space is showing students and teachers that the concepts actually go hand-in-hand...
Observations
At Pluto, the End of a Beginning
Early this morning, if all has gone well, the first golden age of interplanetary exploration will have come to a close
The Urban Scientist
#DispatchesDNLee 2015: Week 4 Recap
Recaps from the field #DispatchesDNLee 2015. I share my week in tweets and pictures from Tanzania, researching giant pouched rats and living far from home.
Tetrapod Zoology
The Refined, Fine-Tuned Placental Mammal Family Tree
The 'Novacek tree' - an influential view of placental phylogeny from 1992. Our understanding of phylogeny – the shape of the tree of life – is constantly evolving, and it’ll continue to evolve as long as new data keeps coming in and so long as we continue to generate hypotheses based on this data...
Beautiful Minds
The Imagination Institute Awards Nearly $3M to Advance the Science of Imagination
We spend so much time on standardized testing and measuring learning ability that we don’t track how much we’re developing the key competencies that enable us to imagine what could be...
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