Offbeat: Open-access video curriculum improves comprehension of human behavior and motivations —
Ethics Unwrapped, a video-based behavioral ethics curriculum created at The University of Texas at Austin and adopted by educational institutions around the world,...
Offbeat: How people use, and lose, preexisting biases to make decisions —
From love and politics to health and finances, humans can sometimes make decisions that appear irrational, or dictated by an existing bias or...
Offbeat: A practical workflow for labs with limited resources —
Globally, biodiversity is concentrated around the equator, but the scientific institutions generating DNA sequence data to study that biodiversity tend to be clustered...
Offbeat: System encourages government transparency using cryptography on a public log of wiretap requests...
When the FBI filed a court order in 2016 commanding Apple to unlock the San Bernandino shooter's iPhone, the news made headlines across...
Offbeat: Solar geoengineering could reduce temperatures and heat stress, but also reduces photosynthesis —
Injecting particles into the atmosphere to cool the planet and counter the warming effects of climate change would do nothing to offset the...
Offbeat: Number of opioid prescriptions remains unchanged, research finds —
Despite increased attention to opioid abuse, prescriptions have remained relatively unchanged for many U.S. patients, research led by Mayo Clinic finds. The research,...
Jack Ryan Rouses Market, kind gesture to autistic Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge Rouses Market: Jack Ryan, Autistic Teen, Has Special Moment.
A teen with autism made an "instant connection" with a worker at a local...
Offbeat: Change detection plays key role in how we construct reality, new model suggests...
We may not be able to change recent events in our lives, but how well we remember them plays a key role in...
Offbeat: Study shows EU pesticide ban failing to protect suburban bees —
Bees living in suburban habitats are still being exposed to significant levels of pesticides despite the EU ban on the use of neonicotinoid...
Offbeat: How experience changes basics of memory formation —
We know instinctively that our experiences shape the way we learn. If we are highly familiar with a particular task, like cooking for...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
