It’s Monday, so you know what that means: Weekly Roundup!
Click through for the best of this week’s science news that you might have
missed.
Are universities' efforts to further their own social
mobility undermining
that of their students? A New
America white paper suggests so.
Is the multiverse theory already passé?
Another entry for Jenna's STS
Ferguson Syllabus: Nathaniel Comfort on the problem
with arguments over whether or not race is genetic, in Nature.
The
first blood
test for depression, or one more category
error?
Where do
your condoms come from? This fun NPR piece
explores recent consumer trends towards socially responsible condoms -
whether they be fair trade, organic, or GMO free.
NASA’s
MAVEN
rover has finally made it to Mar’s atmosphere!
In a
moving personal
essay, University of Hawaii geobiologist A. Hope Jahren shares how a sexual
assault early in her career forever changed the course of her scientific
work. She is not alone - an estimated 1/4 of all female
scientists have been sexually assaulted in the field, often by their own
senior colleagues. Jahren argues that this danger must be seriously addressed
if we hope to increase female representation within STEM.
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