Top stories published by Science and Innovation in March of 2016

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Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Mar 6, 2016

“Does Psychiatry Need Science?”

“A group of seventeen prominent doctors; biological psychiatrists, experts in diagnostics, subspecialists in the field of depression, and even a historian; petitioned the D.S.M.-5 mood-disorders committee to add a diagnosis they named melancholia… melancholia lost its place…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Mar 12, 2016

“Mind and Cosmos: Philosopher Thomas Nagel’s Brave Critique of Scientific Reductionism”

“The greatest advances in the physical and biological sciences were made possible by excluding the mind from the physical world. This has permitted a quantitative understanding of…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Mar 12, 2016

“The Science of “Intuition”

“these days cognitive scientists think of intuition as a set of nonconscious cognitive and affective processes; the outcome of these processes is often difficult to articulate and is not based on deliberate thinking, but it’s real and (sometimes) effective nonetheless. It was…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Mar 22, 2016

“SEAN F. BRADY, PH.D. — Biosynthetic potential of uncultured bacteria”

“Soil microbes that have not yet been cultured outnumber their cultured counterparts by at least two to three orders of magnitude. Uncultured bacteria are one of the largest pools of genetic diversity that…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Mar 1, 2016

“Fleming’s discovery of penicillin couldn’t get published today. That’s a huge problem.”

“Blattman asked himself some simple but profound questions: Was all this work on a single study really worth it? Was it best to spend months revising one study — or could that…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Mar 4, 2016

“Textio Talent”

“Textio shows you how your job listings and candidate emails will perform before you’ve even posted them. Will the role be popular among qualified job seekers? Will it fill quickly? How gender-biased is it? Our predictive models give you analytics and feedback right as you’re typing.”

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Mar 11, 2016

“When You Give a Tree an Email Address”

“Officials assigned the trees ID numbers and email addresses in 2013 as part of a program designed to make it easier for citizens to report problems like dangerous branches. The “unintended but positive consequence,” as the chair of Melbourne’s Environment…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Mar 20, 2016

“Promoting doctoral students’ research self-efficacy: combining academic guidance with autonomy support”

“The degree to which supervisors encouraged students to think and act autonomously (autonomy support) was not uniquely associated with students’…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Mar 3, 2016

“A Personalized Diet, Better Suited to You”

“Research increasingly suggests that each of us is unique in the way we absorb and metabolize nutrients. This dawning realization has scientists, and entrepreneurs, scrambling to provide more effective nutritional advice based on such distinguishing…

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Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Mar 10, 2016

“Using Algorithms to Determine Character”

““We’re always judging people in all sorts of ways, but without data we do it with a selection bias,” he said. “We base it on stuff we know about people, but that usually means favoring people who are most like ourselves.” Familiarity is a crude form of…

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

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