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Ivory Towers and Abattoirs – Temple Grandin

How can research improve the lives of livestock, even as they’re on their way to slaughter? In episode 67, Temple Grandin from the Colorado State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences talks with us about her work on promoting improved communications between academic researchers and those in the animal agriculture industry.

The week's top science news from @ParsingScience ...

Beyond flight shaming

Requiring fewer than 2% of aircraft fly 2,000 feet higher or lower than their originally planned flight path may reduce their warming effect by almost 60.

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The influenza vaccine during pregnancy

Incidence of flu a third lower among mothers and newborn infants receiving the influenza vaccineays.

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Distorted thinking on social media

Study suggests that those with a self-reported diagnosis of depression on Twitter have up to twice the levels of distorted thinking than do a random sample of the general population.

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Doctors who bill you while you’re unconscious

A fifth of U.S. patients receive surprise bills after surgery — even if the doctor and the hospital are in network.

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Encrypting information using crystals

Scientists develop a nearly-true random number generator that leverages the the process of crystallization to create random strings of numbers and encrypt information.

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Ideology in political psychology

Political communications researcher finds that 70% to 80% of American voters do not exhibit consistently coherent liberal or conservative worldviews.

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Boys experience with digital dating abuse

Study indicates that males may be more likely to have experienced digital dating abuse and physical aggression than females.

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Upcoming guests

Jeremy Gunawardena from Harvard University will join us to discuss his article “A Complex Hierarchy of Avoidance Behaviors in a Single-Cell Eukaryote” [email us to submit a question].

Veronica Sevillano from the University of Madrid will join us to discuss her chapter “Animals as Social Groups: An intergroup relations analysis of human-animal conflicts” [email us to submit a question].

Trevor Wardill from the University of Minnesota will join us to discuss his article “Cuttlefish use stereopsis to strike at prey” [already recorded].

Royel Johnson from Pennsylvania State University’s Department of Education Policy Studies discusses his article “The state of research on undergraduate youth formerly in foster care: A systematic review of the literature” [already recorded].

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