Maggie Koerth-Baker
Senior Science Reporter at @FiveThirtyEight. Nieman Fellow. Science and society = my jam. Tweets on a spectrum from Serious Discourse to Millennial Erma Bombeck
Last synced from Twitter 715d ago
How Weird Is Andrew Yang’s Tech Policy? Only About As Weird As America’s.
The American relationship with technology is a complicated one.
What Questions Do You Want Answered About Climate Change?
We're here to help.
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
Climate change (and how to deal with it) can make us all feel a little lost. We at @FiveThirtyEight would like to help. We're starting a new Q&A column around climate and we're letting your questions shape what the series becomes!
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A Cheat Sheet On Tonight’s Debaters’ Climate Positions
The Democratic primary candidates are basically all starting from the same big picture position on climate: it’s real, we need to address it now and the Green New Deal is a good way forward. (John Hickenlooper would disagree with that last bit, but...
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
Boy, that's a lot of people on stage. Here's where they all stand on climate
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First 2020 Democratic Debate, Night 1: Live Analysis
Live coverage of the first night of the first Democratic presidential primary debate, hosted by NBC in Miami, FL.
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
It's easy to feel like the #DemDebate candidates' climate positions are kind of indistinguishable from one another. fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/firs…
Here's a cheat sheet thread to help you out
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We Can Predict Where Measles Will Happen. Why Don’t We?
At the end of February, a team of researchers submitted a paper to the medical journal The Lancet that predicted the top 25 U.S. counties most at risk for measl…
The Anti-Vaxxer Movement Isn’t Really Growing
To insist it is distorts our view of public health.
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
This is good reading by @danengber. Measles cases are up in the US, but that doesn't necessarily mean US vaccine refusal is up.
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When Trying To Save The World Also Trashes It
Mauricio Urbina was trying to save the planet on the day he realized he was simultaneously destroying it. A biologist who studies the bodies of fish and other s…
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
Bioscience and medical research - alone - could be responsible for 2% of global plastic waste. So now what?
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The Grad Student Who Wants to Bring Down Trump
Ryan Shapiro takes his crusade against government secrecy to the steps of the White House.
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
This made me curious of the identities of the rest of the "Vexsome 11".
First up, Ryan Shapiro - MIT grad student, animal rights activist, Trump administration transparency activist chronicle.com/article/The-Gr… twitter.com/kenklippenstei…
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Can You Unwrinkle A Raisin?
The questions that kids ask about science aren’t always easy to answer. Sometimes, their little brains can lead to big places that adults forget to explore. Tha…
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
Today in Science Question from a Toddler: raisin rejuvenation, basement wine, and the struggle to turn back the clock on human aging
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
Scientists can look at your cells under a "Fischer-Price style microscope" and tell your age to within an error 2.5 years.
This, and more, in the latest #ScienceQuestionFromAToddler, exploring cellular aging.
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Smash the Wellness Industry
Why are so many smart women falling for its harmful, pseudoscientific claims?
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
That time capitalism figured out how to package eating disorders for sale. I'm reminded of Famine in Good Omens
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Everyone Knows Money Influences Politics … Except Scientists
Why is it so hard to prove something that’s common knowledge? And why try to do it in the first place?
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
Scientists have been trying (and mostly failing) to prove donor money influences politics for nearly 40 years.
Why is it so hard to prove a thing everybody knows? And what do you do with the evidence, once you have it?
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
Everybody knows $$ influence the American political system. Except scientists. Who have spent 40 years failing to conclusively prove it. Now, we have some of the best evidence ever. But why work so hard to prove what we already know?
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'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, 9 slave testimonies
The voices of five men and four women, once held in human bondage, interviewed in Alabama in 1937.
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
The @MGMAdvertiser throws down on an AL state holiday celebrating the life of Jefferson Davis with 9 first-hand accounts of the horrors of slavery. This is good newspapering. If the state wants a holiday, don't let them forget what they're celebrating.
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Ohio Legislature Considering An Abortion Bill That Is More Restrictive Than The "Heartbeat Bill"
A new bill would ban most private insurance coverage for abortions. But opponents say it would also ban effective methods of birth control.
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
Ohio anti-abortion bill targets birth control and requires a treatment for ectopic pregnancies that doesn't exist. statenews.org/post/ohio-legi… pic.twitter.com/SY46U5gPad
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The Hilarious World of Depression® | Podcast | APM Podcasts
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
The Hilarious World of Depression is so good and so perfect for anyone who has ever found themselves telling a really funny story, and then been confused when half the room looks horrified. Where has this podcast been all my life, @johnmoe?
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Who Owns The Dinosaurs? It All Depends On Where You Find Them
In early April, a paleontology graduate student, Robert DePalma, published a major find in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and hyped the dis…
Even Brain Function Tests Can’t Tell Us How Old Is Too Old To Be President
Joe Biden entered national politics as one of the youngest people to ever serve in the Senate. Today, at 76, he’s considering a run for president which, if he c…
Former 'climate change denier' explains his shift » Yale Climate Connections
Here's what led him to change his mind.
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
Interesting interview with someone who changed their mind on climate change (and a lot of other things, it seems). But this bit is most telling ... and is why charts don't change minds. yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/04/former… pic.twitter.com/3Uf3acjZ1A
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State production of cultural nationalism: political leaders and preservation policies for historic buildings in France and Italy - Thatcher - 2018 - Nations and Nationalism - Wiley Online Library
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
Check out this for some history on how nationalist movements in France and Italy have used historic preservation as a part of their platform in the past.
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The Notre-Dame Cathedral is falling apart — and the U.S. is fixing it
Experts say the structural overhaul of Notre-Dame could cost more than $185 million, but no one knows who's supposed to pay for it.
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
Vice News video from last year says the flying buttresses were starting to shift, threatening the structural integrity of Notre Dame.
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Notre Dame Cathedral Is Crumbling. Who Will Help Save It?
It's seen more than its share of epic dramas, but now there is another challenge
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
Read this ... it's pretty clear both church and state were already pissed at each other about Notre Dame's condition before renovations even began.
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