Reality Checks: Mosquito Sex, Bee hydrofoiling, Ayahuasca Mental States, and Stopping Child Rape
Studying mosquito sex noises. (via scitechdaily) Bees hydrofoiling. (via phys.org ) EEGs on people under the influence of ayahuasca. (via Ars Technica) Stopping sexual violence against children. (via NPR) Featured image credit: flickr
Reality Checks: Space Object Names, Physics in the 2010s, the Source of Antivaxx Ads, and Sanitation Work
Space object renamed because of nazis. Damn nazis. They make everything inconvenient. (via Digital Trends) Physics changes in the last decade. (via Gizmodo ) Robert F Kennedy is the leading source of facebook’s antivaxx ads. (via Ars Technica) The hard lives of sanitation workers. (via NPR) Featured image credit: flickr
Reality Checks: Inequality in US, Satanic Plant Meat, Plastic Waste in Science, and Helium shortages
The US is the most unequal developed nation. (via upi) The satanic plot of…plant based meat alternatives. (via Right Wing Watch ) Science and plastic waste. (via Ars Technica) Running out of helium and why it matters. (via NPR) Featured image credit: flickr
Reality Checks: Racist songs in Music Education, Space Wine, Hacking Mics with Light, and E Jean Carroll Sues
Removing racist songs from children’s music education. (via medium) A startup is sending wine into space. (via techcrunch ) Getting microphones to respond to light rather than sound. (via Ars Technica) E Jean Carroll is suing Trump for defamation. Can we donate to her legal costs? (via NPR) Featured image credit: …
Reality Checks: Cars Seeing around Corners, Cars and Lines, Racist Healthcare Algorithms, and of Course, Cultural Appropriate on Halloween
Using shadows so cars can see around corners. (via techcrunch) Lyft invents…the line! (via jalopnik ) Algorithm on health care offers less care to black people. (via Ars Technica) Cultural appropriate and Halloween. (via NPR) Featured image credit: flickr
Reality Checks: Out of Botswana, Rat-Driven Cars, Cars on Halloween, and Poverty vs Brains
Modern humans may have come from Botswana. (via BBC) Tiny rats driving tiny cars! For science! (via Engadget ) Dangers to children on halloween: urban legends vs cars. (via Ars Technica) Poverty may be harder on teen brains than trauma. (via NPR) Featured image credit: flickr
Reality Check: Lego Fossils, Antarctic Nuclear remnants, Bad Science on High Heels, and Spying Tips
Lego dino fossils! (via Gizmodo) Traces of nuclear tests from the 1950s still detectable in Antarctica. ( via Phys ) Paper on men’s responses to women in high heels retracted. (via Ars Technica) Eateries and espionage (via NPR) Featured image credit: flickr
Reality Check: Nobel Prize for Attempting to Alleviate Poverty, CRISPR Baby Death Study Retracted, the Strains of the Black Plague, and Trump Fights the ACA
Nobel prize in economics goes for helping the poor. (via Nyt) Study saying first CRISPR babies might die retracted. ( via Nature. ) Just 2 plague strains devastated Europe. (via Ars Technica) Trump vs healthcare. (via NPR) Featured image credit: flickr