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New Scientist’s weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn’t miss Humans 1 July 2020 Play Duet-2 is a game from arts collective Invisible Flock on iOS and Android in which pairs of strangers establish a real, though mysterious, connection. Answer a question a day and share glimpses […] More
Picture a Scientist shines a light on gender discrimination in science – and also finds reasons to be hopeful, says Simon Ings Humans 1 July 2020 Film Picture a Scientist Sharon Shattuck and Ian Cheney Virtual screenings from 26 June WHAT is it about the institutions of science that encourages bullying and sexism? That pushes […] More
The leadership styles of Donald Trump and Jacinda Ardern are dramatically different, but our evolutionary history explains both – and why our preferences have changed Humans 1 July 2020 DONALD TRUMP in the US and Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand. Vladimir Putin in Russia and Sanna Marin in Finland. It is hard to imagine more […] More
Women continue to experience gender bias and discrimination – including lower pay and performance evaluations – even in workplaces where they are in a majority, according to a study of vets. Bias in the workplace appears to be perpetuated by people who don’t think it exists. The finding suggests that simply hiring more women won’t […] More
In some parts of the US, police kill black people at a rate six times higher than they kill white people. The differences are most stark in the northern Midwest, especially Chicago, and in north-eastern states like New York. Protest movements like Black Lives Matter have highlighted the disproportionate killing of black people by US […] More
The Black Lives Matter movement is primarily about social justice, but it will tackle environmental injustices too, says Graham Lawton Humans | Comment 24 June 2020 I WANTED to join the recent Black Lives Matter protests in London, but I also didn’t want to be in close proximity to thousands of other people for hours […] More
New Scientist’s weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn’t miss Humans 24 June 2020 Read Breath: The new science of a lost art sees journalist James Nestor describe the experiments conducted on him at Stanford University, California, to discover the impact of bad breathing. What he found […] More
“IN SCIENCE, I am surrounded by a lot of privileged white people,” says Aya Osman, a neuroscientist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Born in Saudi Arabia, she moved from the UK to the US two years ago for her postdoctoral degree. On her first day of orientation, she says, she was one of […] More
