Ed Yong
Science writer at The Atlantic. Author of I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, a New York Times bestseller on animal-microbe partnerships. edyong.me
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Why Jeffrey Epstein loved evolutionary psychology
And why evolutionary psychologists loved him right back.
WeWork and the Great Unicorn Delusion
Why the consumer-tech revolution can’t seem to survive public scrutiny
The Real Danger of Booze-Making Gut Bacteria
Microbes can produce so much alcohol that people become drunk—and sustain liver damage—without touching any booze.
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The man would get so drunk that he’d black out, lose jobs, end up in hospital—all without drinking any booze. The alcohol was coming from the bacteria in his gut.
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"The Klebsiella strains in Yuan’s patient were exceptions: At one point, they produced so much [alcohol] that it was as if the man had knocked back 15 shots of whiskey."
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Younger Black Voters to Their Parents: Break Up With Joe Biden, I’m Bored
An organic effort by black millennials and Gen Z-ers to influence their older family members may be key to overtaking Mr. Biden in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
North America Has Lost a Quarter of Its Birds in 50 Years
Though the continent has lost 3 billion birds since 1970, those losses are hard to glean because it’s the commonest species that have been hit hardest.
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North America has lost a quarter of its birds in 50 years. 3 billion individuals. And surprisingly, it’s the common species that have been most heavily hit
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“As with the passenger pigeon, abundance obscures decline. “If you have a lot of birds coming to your feeder and they’re reduced by 30 percent, you might not see that. This loss of abundance can be happening right under our noses.””
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Often with these biological annihilation stories, people want to know what they can personally do (besides voting/activism). Often the answers aren’t clear. Not so for bird declines. Start with keeping domestic cats indoors (or on a leash).
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Jeffrey Epstein infiltrated science because it was ready to accommodate him
What could "nerd tunnel vision" possibly mean?
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An excellent piece from @mslopatto about all the shitty behavior that's allowed to pass in science because of the “nerd tunnel vision" of men.
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How the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Created an Abyssal Wasteland
A nightmare at 6,000 feet.
Ancient DNA Helps Undo the Colonial Myth of Puerto Rico’s History
The people of pre-colonial Puerto Rico did not disappear entirely—a new study shows that the island’s residents still carry bits of their DNA.
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A new ancient DNA study shows that modern-day Puerto Ricans can trace some ancestry to the island's Indigenous peoples. It supports their oral histories, and helps counter the common colonial narrative of complete extinction.
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The Problem with Sugar-Daddy Science
The pursuit of money from wealthy donors distorts the research process—and yields flashy projects that don’t help and don’t work.
The Power of Fear in the Thawing Arctic
Living north of the Arctic Circle meant learning fear and its power to motivate in the face of danger—whether from a bear or climate change.
Let Them Fight
Democratic primary voters should have a chance to evaluate how their potential standard-bearers fare against hostile criticism.
Use ancient remains more wisely
Researchers rushing to apply powerful sequencing techniques to ancient-human remains must think harder about safeguarding, urge Keolu Fox and John Hawks.
Marooned: Researchers Will Freeze Their Ship into Arctic Ocean Ice for a Year
Scientists setting sail to the North Pole will become stranded in slowly migrating sea ice to investigate climate change
The world has a third pole – and it's melting quickly
An IPCC report says two-thirds of glaciers on the largest ice sheet after the Arctic and Antarctic are set to disappear in 80 years
The New Republic & The New School Present: Covering Climate Change: How to Turn up the Heat
Join a panel of journalists and activists on the US media coverage of the most urgent question to human existence, the climate emergency. The goal will be not only to shed more light on the current coverage; but discuss how we can do more to sound...
Famed Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Described Epstein Victims As 'Entirely Willing'
Stallman, a pioneer of the free software movement, argued about the definition of "sexual assault" on an MIT email listserv about the university's connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
A Woman’s AncestryDNA Test Revealed a Medical Secret
As a cancer patient, she had received cord-blood cells from an anonymous donor. The DNA from those cells led her to him.