Culture
Hollywood's Portrayals of Science and Scientists Are Ridiculous
And Twitter is taking note
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Seeing Superman Increases Altruism
Subject who saw a Superman poster were more likely to offer help than were people who saw another image.
Space & Physics
Ultima Thule and the Apes of Earth
As the New Horizons mission approached Ultima Thule, Rowan University paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara put our close-up study of the Kuiper Belt object into a deep-time perspective.
Facebook Users Value the Service More Than Investors Do
Users of the social network said they'd require payment of more than $1,000 to quit the platform for one year. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Culture
Meet the Real Ravenmaster
Christopher Skaife talks about his new book The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London, in front of a live audience at Caveat, “the speakeasy bar for intelligent nightlife" in Lower Manhattan...
Germs of Genius—a Masterpiece’s “Microbiome” Can Spell Its Demise
But microbes living on canvases may also help preserve irreplaceable works of art
Culture
How Scientific American Helps Shape the English Language
The magazine is more widely cited than the Bible by the Oxford English Dictionary
100 Years after an Epidemic, a Scientific Guide to Alien Life and Other New Science Books
Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
Culture
Scientists and Artists Must Work Together
We need to engage people emotionally, not just intellectually, to address the plight of the planet
Artists Strive to Make Climate Impacts “Visceral”
Art that provokes emotions can complement climate science
Public Health
The Crusade against Dangerous Food, Part 2
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Deborah Blum talks about her book The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the 20th Century, Part 2...
Chemistry
The Crusade against Dangerous Food, Part 1
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Deborah Blum talks about her book The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the 20th Century, Part 1...
Culture
An Uncanny Display: Algorithmic Art at the Whitney Museum
A new show looks back over a half century of this surprisingly robust genre
Culture
How Have Plants Shaped Human Societies?
We still know very little, but a new project called the Plant Humanities Initiative aims to change that
Culture
Can AI Create True Art?
And if it can, what are the implications for the future of creativity?
Social Construct of Race Imposes Biology
Anthropologist Jennifer Raff argues that race is culturally created, but has biological consequences.
Liberals Are from Mars, Conservatives Are from Venus
Political attitudes reflect cognitive styles that are rooted in differing cultures
The Singular of “Data” Is Not “Anecdote”
Why the singular of “data” is not “anecdote”
EARTH
Bones and Stones: Cemetery Geology
A tour of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y., focuses on the geology of the landscape and the mausoleums.
The Roots of Data Visualization, Why We Kill Ourselves, and Other New Science Books
Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
