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Lying About Your Weight
Tweet Share on Facebook January 31, 2013 CommentDo men and women lie about their weight? Of course they do—but a new study from researchers in Ireland shows we're getting much worse at our ability to estimate how much we actually weigh, and it may be profoundly affecting what we know about obesity epidemics.
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The Earth Breathes
Tweet Share on Facebook January 15, 2013 CommentA sad, new record was set last month: the amount of carbon dioxide we're putting into the atmosphere is now officially more than double the rate of what it was just a generation ago, according to meticulous monthly records kept at NOAA and at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. And it shows no sign of stopping. For those who understand compound interest, this doesn't bode well for the planet.
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The Daily Dish Move Brings New Meaning to Saliency
Tweet Share on Facebook January 8, 2013 CommentSocial scientists studying the rise and fall (and, perhaps, rise again) of American journalism and new media forms may have just found a new term as a companion to the phrase "Googled" that sits at the center of what used to be the Fourth Estate. The new term may be called "Dished."
Andrew Sullivan is moving his wildly popular, aggregated blogosphere, The Daily Dish, away from his home at The Daily Beast to a standalone site, and asked his loyal following of more than a million readers to move with him. But that isn't the news for social scientists studying how forms of journalism are going to survive in an era where Google News essentially ended most journalism business models.
