Top stories published by Science and Innovation in February of 2016

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Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 25, 2016

“The Rise and Fall of .Ly”

“Syria is by no means alone as a complicated country in control of a catchy .com alternative. Montenegro is responsible for .me addresses — popular for personal portfolios, and also with Facebook, which now owns fb.me. Libya licenses every url that ends in .ly: embed.ly, crowd.ly…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 15, 2016

“Why Your Birth Date May Not Match Your Body’s Age”

“In the study, researchers looked at a group of people, all of whom were 38 years old. The researchers determined these participants’ “biological ages” based on how well their body systems were working. To determine each person’s biological…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 17, 2016

“At a Neurological Level, Narcissists Are Needy”

“Narcissists may say they have high self-esteem, and their boastful behavior could be interpreted as a sign that they do, but the brain scan evidence suggested otherwise. The more highly students scored on narcissism, the less connectivity they…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 26, 2016

“Who Controls Your Facebook Feed”

“for all its power, Facebook’s news feed algorithm is surprisingly inelegant, maddeningly mercurial, and stubbornly opaque. It remains as likely as not to serve us posts we find trivial, irritating, misleading, or just plain boring. And Facebook knows it. Over the past…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 15, 2016

“Our Absurd Fear of Fat”

“The meta-analysis, published this week in The Journal of the American Medical Association, reviewed data from nearly a hundred large epidemiological studies to determine the correlation between body mass and mortality risk. The results ought to stun anyone who assumes the definition…

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Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 4, 2016

“This Professor Fell In Love With His Grad Student — Then Fired Her For It”

“Now the two women who filed the harassment complaint — the graduate students Io Kleiser, whom he fell in love with, and Sarah Gossan, whom he confessed his feelings to — have shared their stories…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 8, 2016

“Google’s sexist algorithms offer an important lesson in diversity”

“Stories like this aren’t just fodder to titillate your friends on Facebook (governed by its own algorithms), but should drive home two important lessons. The first is that as our machines get smarter and we trust…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 23, 2016

“.io — British Indian Ocean Territory”

“The Chagos had a population of some two thousand inhabitants, known as Ilois — French creole for “islanders” — or Chagossians, who had lived on the islands, first as slaves and later as free plantation workers, for generations. Although they knew no other home…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 13, 2016

“Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science”

“The availability of so much well-financed ambition has created a new kind of dating game. In what is becoming a common narrative, researchers like to describe how they begged the federal science establishment for funds…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 20, 2016

“The Family That Couldn’t Say Hippopotamus”

“Coming out of an era of rapid advances in computer technology, the idea of a discrete, common origin to human language made intuitive sense. It was also consistent with observations that many languages have similar features, suggesting that the brain…

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These were the top 10 stories published by Science and Innovation in February of 2016. You can also dive into daily archives for February of 2016 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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