Top stories published by Science and Innovation in December of 2015

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Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Dec 12, 2015

“Time in the bank: A Stanford plan to save doctors from burnout”

“The meals, housecleaning and a host of other services — babysitting, elder care, movie tickets, grant writing help, handyman services, dry cleaning pickup, speech training, Web support and more — are part of a…

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Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Dec 12, 2015

“Black scientists respond to Scalia’s suggestion that they took ‘less advanced’ classes”

“Elizabeth Wayne holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in biomedical engineering from Cornell University.

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Dec 9, 2015

“500 Million, But Not a Single One More”

“Cultures grew and faltered, and it remained. Empires rose and fell, and it thrived. Ideologies waxed and waned, but it did not care. Kill. Maim. Spread. An ancient, mad god, hidden from view, that could not be fought, could not be confronted, could not even…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Dec 20, 2015

“People’s Deepest, Darkest Google Searches Are Being Used Against Them”

“In some cases, the most intimate questions a person is asking — about health worries, relationship woes, financial hardship — are the ones that set off a chain reaction that can have troubling consequences…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Dec 21, 2015

“Humans Did Not Wipe Out the Neanderthals, New Research Suggests”

“These findings suggest that modern humans did not rapidly replace Neanderthals in Europe — say, via violent means. Rather, the Neanderthal extinction “might have been more complex and drawn out than previously…

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Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Dec 6, 2015

“Beyond Bar and Line Graphs: Time for a New Data Presentation Paradigm”

“Papers rarely included scatterplots, box plots, and histograms that allow readers to critically evaluate continuous data. Most papers presented continuous data in bar and line graphs. This is problematic…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Dec 19, 2015

“Imagining The Post-Antibiotics Future”

“Predictions that we might sacrifice the antibiotic miracle have been around almost as long as the drugs themselves. Penicillin was first discovered in 1928 and battlefield casualties got the first non-experimental doses in 1943, quickly saving soldiers who…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Dec 9, 2015

“Apocalypse Pig: The Last Antibiotic Begins to Fail”

“On Thursday, researchers from several Chinese, British and US universities announced in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases that they have identified a new form of resistance, to the very last-ditch drug colistin — and that it is…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Dec 19, 2015

“The awful truth about climate change no one wants to admit”

“The latest contretemps was sparked by a comment in Nature by Oliver Geden, an analyst at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. In it, he made a simple argument. Politicians, he says, want good news…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Dec 1, 2015

“As research teams grow, academic career prospects may shrink”

“Sociologists John P. Walsh and You-Na Lee of the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta wondered what this increase in team size meant for the way that scientific projects are conducted…

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