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Academic Science Rethinks All-Too-White 'Dude Walls' Of Honor By Nell Greenfieldboyce (NPR)
Ancient DNA is a powerful tool for studying the past – when archaeologists and geneticists work together By Elizabeth Sawchuk and Mary Prendergast (The Conversation)
Ancient humans used the moon as a calendar in the sky By Rebecca Boyle (Science News)
Ancient palace emerges from drought-hit Iraq reservoir By Jack Guy (CNN)
Are we on the way to civilisation collapse? By Luke Kemp (BBC)
A Scientist Witnessed Poachers Killing a Chimp By Ed Yong (The Atlantic)
A Week of Misconceptions By The New York Times (The New York Times)
Americans for Medical Advancement - Advocates for Science-Based Medical Research
At Langley, Admiration and Gratitude Multiply on Katherine Johnson’s 100th Birthday (NASA)
Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science By William J. Broad (The New York Times)
Britain's equivalent to Tutankhamun found in Southend-on-Sea By Mark Brown (The Guardian)
Caroline Criado-Perez On Data Bias And 'Invisible Women' By Lulu Garcia-Navarro (NPR)
Chemical Study Becomes A Tale of Conspiracy And Paranoia (NPR)
Crossing From Asia, the First Americans Rushed Into the Unknown By Carl Zimmer (The New York Times)
David Reich Unearths Human History Etched in Bone By Carl Zimmer (The New York Times)
Drugs That Work In Mice Often Fail When Tried In People By Richard Harris (NPR)
Exploring Your Brain’s Pokémon Region (Science Friday)
Female rats face sex bias too By Bethany Brookshire (Science News)
Foetus 18 Weeks: the greatest photograph of the 20th century? By Charlotte Jansen (The Guardian)
From identity politics to medicine, the DNA revolution demands a new bioethics -An interview with Alondra Nelson (Aeon)
Geology’s Timekeepers Are Feuding By Robinson Meyer (The Atlantic)
He Was Dying. Antibiotics Weren’t Working. Then Doctors Tried a Forgotten Treatment. By Maryn McKenna (Mother Jones)
How A Budget Squeeze Can Lead To Sloppy Science And Even Cheating By Richard Harris (NPR)
How an outsider in Alzheimer’s research bucked the prevailing theory — and clawed for validation By Sharon Begley (Stat)
How have pharmaceutical companies corrupted medical literature? (Thoughts of a Simple Citizen Blog)
How Mouse Studies Lead Medical Research Down Dead Ends By Richard Harris (NPR)
How natural is numeracy? By Philip Ball (Aeon)
Now you see it By Daniel Yon (Aeon)
How the periodic table went from a sketch to an enduring masterpiece By Tom Siegfried (Science News)
Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’ By Damian Carrington (The Guardian)
Inside Trump’s Cruel Campaign Against the U.S.D.A.’s Scientists By Michael Lewis (Vanity Fair)
Institute for Cross Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth
Investigating The USDA’s Silence On Climate Change (Science Friday)
IsisCB Explore
Is It Safe For Medical Residents To Work 30-Hour Shifts? By Rob Stein (NPR)
Male scientists are often cast as lone geniuses. Here’s what happened when a woman was. By Brian Resnick (Vox)
Massive Science
Mistress of all trades By Valerie R. Sanders (Aeon)
The Poison Squad: The American People Had No Idea What They Were Eating (PBS: American experience)
Prison, spectacle, refuge By Nigel T Rothfels (Aeon)
Protesting Too Much About #OverlyHonestMethods By Anastasia Kulpa (The Society Pages)
Questioning Truth, Reality and the Role of Science By Philip Ball (Quanta Magazine)
Racial purity is “scientifically meaningless," say 8,000 geneticists By Paul Ratner (Big Think)
Relearning The Star Stories Of Indigenous Peoples By Christie Taylor (Science Friday)
Researchers Show Parachutes Don't Work, But There's A Catch By Richard Harris (NPR)
Rethinking Death: Ted Radio Hour
Retracted Scientific Studies: A Growing List By Michael Roston (The New York Times)
Retraction Watch
Scholar's Lab - University of Virginia
Science (Aeon)
Science Debate
Science in History, Volume 1: The Emergence of Science  By J. D. Bernal
Science News - The New York Times
Scientists Are Discovering Long-Lost Rules for Ancient Board Games By Matthew Gault (Vice)
Scientists at Work - New York Times Blog
Scientists reveal 10,000-year-old mummy is Native American ancestor By Hannah Devlin (The Guardian)
Seed Magazine
See how visualizations of the moon have changed over time By Cassandra Willyard (Science News)
600 Club Gets a New Member By Amanda Cox and Kevin Quealy (The New York Times)
Skeptic
Statistical Literacy
Statisticians' Call To Arms: Reject Significance And Embrace Uncertainty! By Richard Harris (NPR)
Still Now, Should Lab Monkeys Be Deprived Of Their Mothers? By Barbara J. King (NPR)
Sydney Initiative for Truth
The Case for Professors of Stupidity By Brian Gallagher (Nautilus)
The Gay Penguins of Australia By Nellie Bowles (The New York Times)
These skulls look purple and orange. They are both red. By Nicole Westman (Popular Science)
The maimed and the healing By Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers (Aeon)
The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet By Steven Strogatz (The New York Times)
The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease By Maria Popova (Brain Pickings)
The Skeptics Society
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions By Thomas Kuhn -- Outline prepared by Professor Frank Pajares
13.7: Cosmos and Culture: Commentary on Science and Society (NPR)
This Article Won’t Change Your Mind By Julie Beck (The Atlantic)
Three Popular Psychology Studies That Didn't Hold Up By Benedict Carey and Michael Roston (The New York Times)
Time to update the Nobels By Brian Keating (Aeon)
Too Few University Jobs For America's Young Scientists By Richard Harris (NPR)
Top Scientists Revamp Standards To Foster Integrity In Research By Richard Harris (NPR)
Tree Scientist Inspires Next Generation ... Through Barbie By Madeline K. Sofia, Maia Stern, and Becky Harlan (NPR)
UK Biobank Requires Earth's Geneticists To Cooperate, Not Compete By Richard Harris (NPR)
Undark: Truth, Beauty, Science
Understanding Science (UC Berkeley)
U.S. Science Suffering From Booms And Busts In Funding By Richard Harris and Robert Benincasa (NPR)
What Happened to America’s Political Center of Gravity By Sahil Chinoy (The New York Times)
What Painting With Your Feet Does to Your Brain By Francie Diep (The New York Times)
When Science Gets Ahead Of Itself By Adam Frank (NPR)
Why a Medieval Woman Had Lapis Lazuli Hidden in Her Teeth By Sarah Zhang (The Atlantic)
Widening The Lens On A More Inclusive Science (Science Friday)
With No Boys Born in Nearly 10 Years, a Polish Village Finds Fame in Its Missing Males By Joanna Berendt (The New York Times)
World's 'oldest figurative painting' discovered in Borneo cave By Ian Sample (The Guardian)