Top stories published by Science and Innovation in February of 2017

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Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 7, 2017

“Why you might want to think twice about getting your wisdom teeth removed”

“For 30 years, Dr. Jay Friedman has been on a one-man crusade to halt the tide of wisdom teeth removal, which he says is one of the most egregious examples of unnecessary medical procedures. In 2007…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 12, 2017

“Beyond the penis: Vaginas shaped evolutionary history”

“Researchers studying whales, snakes, and other animals are finding that female sex organs have some of the same baroque complexity seen in males. They now see females as active participants in an arms race, likely evolving more…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 4, 2017

“In an age of rampant narcissism and social cheating — the importance of teaching social evolutionary mechanisms.”

“While evolutionary processes are often caricatured as favoring selfish behaviors, the facts tell a more complex, organism-specific…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 23, 2017

“How a dispute at Harvard led to a grad student’s forced mental exam and an extraordinary restraining order against a prominent scientist”

“German, however, believes the forced evaluation was an act of revenge by Rubin, retaliation…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 10, 2017

“Yes, You’re Irrational, and Yes, That’s OK”

“The decoy effect is just one example of people being swayed by what mainstream economists have traditionally considered irrelevant noise. After all, their community has, for a century or so, taught that the value you place on a thing arises from its…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 23, 2017

“Guilt And Shame As A UI Design Element”

“This guilt strat isn’t just locked in the primordial garden of several argumentative Medium thinkpieces. It is actually built into sites themselves. It manifests as cute little images that appear on various sites when they detect readers have ad blockers…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 19, 2017

“Rogue Scientists Race to Save Climate Data from Trump”

“The group was split in two. One half was setting web crawlers upon NOAA web pages that could be easily copied and sent to the Internet Archive. The other was working their way through the harder-to-crack data sets — the ones that…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 2, 2017

“Mice can be male without Y chromosome”

“Reproductive biologist Monika Ward of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu and colleagues started with mice that have only one X chromosome (and no second sex chromosome). Normally those animals would develop as females. But when the researchers manipulated…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 3, 2017

“What’s a Species, Anyways?”

“Since the red wolf was originally classified as an endangered species, biologists have studied it intensely — sequencing its DNA, scrutinizing its morphology, and piecing together its evolutionary history. And they’ve put forward a compelling new theory: The red wolf, an animal…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 9, 2017

“The Digital Materiality of Gifs”

“animated gifs, whether you are hypnotized by them or nauseated by them, have become a visual language unto themselves, an emotive vocabulary made out of culture.”

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These were the top 10 stories published by Science and Innovation in February of 2017. You can also dive into daily archives for February of 2017 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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