Meal kits have smaller carbon footprint than grocery shopping, study says ~enviro Article 1211 words 17 votes
Giant pandas are macronutritional carnivores - A new study shows that the nutrient profile of the bear’s all-bamboo diet is much closer to that of a typical meat eater ~science biology Article 509 words 4 votes
Coronary atherosclerosis in indigenous South American Tsimane: A cross-sectional cohort study ~health medicine Link 6 votes
Gender dysphoria isn’t a “social contagion,” according to a new study ~lgbt transgender Article 2163 words 23 votes
Meal kit delivery services like Blue Apron have an overall smaller carbon footprint than grocery shopping because of less food waste and a more streamlined supply chain ~food Article 1211 words 10 votes
Instead of ‘finding your passion,’ try developing it, Stanford scholars say ~life Article 773 words, published Jun 18 2018 20 votes
Can food choices reduce greenhouse gas emissions? ~enviro Article 858 words, published Mar 28 2019 5 votes
LGBT people a 'fundamental part of the fabric of rural American communities' ~lgbt Article 566 words 10 votes
The internet's hidden rules: An empirical study of Reddit norm violations at micro, meso, and macro scales ~science sociology PDF 19 votes
Big gods came after the rise of civilisations, not before, finds study using huge historical database ~humanities.history Article 994 words, published Mar 20 2019 15 votes
Apple and Stanford’s Apple Watch study identified irregular heartbeats in over 2,000 patients ~health Article 683 words 5 votes
Halving warming with idealized solar geoengineering moderates key climate hazards ~enviro climate change Article 692 words 7 votes
Sleeping more on weekends does not make up for past sleep loss ~health diet Article 741 words, published Mar 4 2019 10 votes
CO2 emissions fall in eighteen countries with strong policies, study finds (in the journal Nature Climate Change) ~enviro climate change Article 705 words 18 votes
A $300 billion business tax break meant to raise wages is instead helping companies replace workers with machines, study says ~finance economics business Article 18 votes
Adblockers Performance Study - A detailed analysis of the performance of some of the most popular content-blocker engines ~tech browsers Link 18 votes
Chimpanzees’ gestural communication follows same laws as human language ~humanities language Link 3 votes
Study shows that "beer before wine" makes no difference to a hangover ~food Article 642 words 10 votes
Pew study: 74% of Facebook users did not know Facebook was maintaining a list of their interests/traits, 51% were uncomfortable with it, and 27% felt the list was inaccurate ~tech facebook social media privacy Article 2317 words 21 votes
"Mischievous responders" have been tainting the data about health disparities between LGBT youth and their peers ~lgbt Article 1170 words 13 votes
What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | Robert Waldinger ~life Video 12:47, published Jan 25 2016 7 votes
New study shows Medicare-For-All savings likely 2.5x previous estimates ~health healthcare Article 2145 words 15 votes
Association of frequency of organic food consumption with cancer risk - Findings from the NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort study ~health Article 3608 words 7 votes
Study of Puerto Rico rainforest shows massive, climate-driven decline in population of insects and insect-eating animals ~enviro climate change Article 1521 words 9 votes
An optical illusion that resembles "looming googly eyes" scares some types of birds, and is being used to keep them away from an airport ~science Article 885 words 12 votes
How to study abusers: Should reading lists come with a content warning? ~humanities education.higher Article 814 words, published Sep 25 2018 12 votes
Growing up in a house full of books is major boost to literacy and numeracy, study finds ~books Article 620 words 15 votes
Academic grievance studies and the corruption of scholarship ~humanities education.higher Article 11 758 words 11 votes
Gender dysphoria may have genetic basis: Australian study ~lgbt transgender Article 1014 words 8 votes
The dangers of DNA testing - In a new study, 74 out of 108 crime laboratories implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical bank robbery ~science biology Article 553 words 15 votes
Litigation gone digital: Ottawa experiments with artificial intelligence in tax cases ~finance Article 839 words 4 votes
Latest study reveals sharp rise in essay cheating globally, with millions of students involved ~humanities education Link 13 votes
Y Combinator plans to start doling out $60 million next year to study universal basic income ~finance Article 652 words 22 votes
Fifty-four oenology students described white wine dyed red with descriptors strongly correlated with red wine ~food drinks Article 585 words 9 votes
A study on the online "filter bubble" found that liberals and conservatives were actually recommended similar stories on Google News, representing a fairly homogeneous set of mainstream news sources ~science Article 1168 words 8 votes
Study shows forest conservation is a powerful tool to improve nutrition in developing nations ~enviro conservation Link 6 votes
Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in eighteen countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study ~health diet Link 4 votes
Brain drain: The mere presence of one’s own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity ~science Link 6 votes
Health effects of overweight and obesity in 195 countries over twenty-five years ~health medicine Link 4 votes