Christie Aschwanden (117 entries)

Your Job May Affect How Your Brain Ages
Your Job May Affect How Your Brain Ages
The Case Against Early Cancer Detection
How Skyrocketing Gun Sales Are Helping To Conserve Butterflies
Conservation Efforts Are Set To Get A Boost — Thanks To The Duck Stamp
Conservation Efforts Are Set To Get A Boost — Thanks To The Duck Stamp
We Could See More And More ‘Hot Droughts’ Like California’s
We May Never Know How Well Cloud Seeding Works
Every Time You Fly, You Trash The Planet — And There’s No Easy Fix
Some Airlines Pollute Much More Than Others
Some Airlines Pollute Much More Than Others
How Much Fuel We Need To Leave Buried To Beat Climate Change
This Algorithm Knows You Better Than Your Facebook Friends Do
This Algorithm Knows You Better Than Your Facebook Friends Do
Why The CDC And FDA Are Telling You Two Different Things About Flu Drugs
Partisanship Has Swallowed Up The Debate Over Climate Change
There’s A Gap Between What The Public Thinks And What Scientists Know
There’s A Gap Between What The Public Thinks And What Scientists Know
Your Brain Is Primed To Reach False Conclusions
What It’s Like To Be A Woman At The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Maybe Conservatives Just Think They’re Happier Than Liberals
Nudging Climate Scientists To Follow Their Own Advice On Flying
America’s New Climate Policy Is Its Boldest Ever, And Still Not Enough
Football Leads To An Early Death? If Only It Were That Simple
The EPA’s Significant Yet Totally Insufficient Approach To Plane Emissions
The Pope’s Not Going To Like How Far We Are From Our Climate Change Goals
The Pope’s Not Going To Like How Far We Are From Our Climate Change Goals
Stop Trying To Be Creative
Frank Drake Totally Saw Kepler-452b Coming
Meet The Maniac Who Scaled 58 Peaks In Less Than 10 Days
Science Isn’t Broken
Psychology Is Starting To Deal With Its Replication Problem
Psychology Is Starting To Deal With Its Replication Problem
Ignore The Headlines: We Don’t Know If E-Cigs Lead Kids To Real Cigs
Science Won’t Settle The Mammogram Debate
Concussion Tests Won’t Fix The Concussion Problem
Keystone XL Wasn’t About Jobs Or The Climate — It Was All Politics
How To Tell Good Studies From Bad? Bet On Them
Not Even Scientists Can Easily Explain P-values
Significant Digits From The Paris Climate Talks
Putin’s 12-Year Flip-Flop On Climate Change And Other Significant Digits From Paris
A Lesson from Kyoto’s Failure: Don’t Let Congress Touch A Climate Deal
The 2-Degree Warming Limit Is Arbitrary And Beside The Point
The Paris Climate Agreement Would Be A Great First Step If This Were 1995
You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition
The Record For The Hottest Year Ever Just Got Broken Again
Methane Is Leaking All Over The Place
Why It’s So Hard To Prove Zika Is Causing Birth Defects
Statisticians Found One Thing They Can Agree On: It’s Time To Stop Misusing P-Values
Failure Is Moving Science Forward
The NFL’s Shoddy Science Means We Know Even Less About Concussions
Soccer Hamstring Injuries Are Up, But Preventing Them Is Complicated
How Two Grad Students Uncovered An Apparent Fraud — And A Way To Change Opinions On Transgender Rights
The Achiness Of The Long Distance Runner
Democrats — And Republicans — Are Growing More Worried Over Climate Change
Even Tug-Of-Warriors Can Be Dopers
Even Psychologists Respond To Meaningless Rewards
Women Get Sports Concussions At Higher Rates Than Men
How Your Gut Affects Your Mood
Can Microbes Heal Your Gut And Mind?
Is It Fair To Ban All Russian Athletes From The Olympics?
The 5K, Not The Marathon, Is The Ideal Race
Why Do You Comment Online?
The Olympics Are Still Struggling To Define Gender
There’s Probably Nothing That Will Change Clinton Or Trump Supporters’ Minds
Want To See A Faster Olympic Marathon? Move It To The Winter Games
Sprinters Should Start Fast; Everyone Else Should Finish Fast
Let Caster Run! We Should Celebrate Semenya’s Extraordinary Talent
Can A Candidate Be Too Old To Run For President?
Wanted: Mars Explorers. Must Be Able To Tolerate Boredom And Play Nice With Others.
Even More Evidence That Mammograms Have Been Oversold
How Fast Would You Run A Marathon? [project]
Tell Us Two Things And We’ll Tell You How Fast You’d Run A Marathon
Trump Doesn’t Have To End Agreements To Set Back Climate Progress
We Asked 8,500 Internet Commenters Why They Do What They Do
All We Really Need To Get To Mars Is A Boatload Of Cash
NASA Is Digging In The Snow To Help The West Manage Its Water
Some Doctors Are Giving Mammogram Advice That Could Hurt Women
One Runner Came Tantalizingly Close To A 2-Hour Marathon
Leaving Social Media Taught Me How Broken The News Cycle Is
Track And Field May Scrap Its Records Because Of Doping Scandals. Is That A Good Idea?
Surgery Is One Hell Of A Placebo
‘Diagnosing’ Trump Is More About Politics Than Mental Health
Now Stare Directly At This Eclipse Story
A Blood Test Promised To Make Me A Better Runner, But It Just Made Me Worry I Pee Too Much
The GOP’s Abortion Ban Is About Politics, Not Science
The Healthiest State In The Country Has Some Of The Steepest Premiums
Handwriting Analysis Can’t Exonerate Roy Moore
There’s No Such Thing As ‘Sound Science’
Can Teamwork Solve One Of Psychology’s Biggest Problems?
Got A Flu Shot? Great. Wash Your Hands, Too.
Tom Brady Is Drowning In His Own Pseudoscience
What A Badass Olympic Skier Can Teach Us About Work-Life Balance
This Year’s Super Bad Flu Season In 20 Maps
Anyone Can Now Take This Breast Cancer Gene Test, But It Probably Won’t Tell You Much
There’s Still No Such Thing As Sound Science
How Shoddy Statistics Found A Home In Sports Research
How Harmful — Or Helpful — Are E-Cigarettes, Anyway?
How Early Is Too Early To Get A Colon Screening?
Driving? Your Phone Is A Distraction Even If You Aren’t Looking At It
A Flawed Statistical Method Was Just Banned From A Major Sports Science Journal
Psychologists Looked In The Mirror … And Saw A Bunch Of Liberals
What Climate Change Looks Like In 2018
The Case Against Screening For Thyroid Cancer
What Does Science Tell Us About Sex Ed?
Does CBD Really Do Anything?
Make A Flu Shot Your Halloween Tradition
No, LaCroix Isn’t Poisoning You Like You’re A Giant Cockroach
It’s Easier Than Ever To Get The Recommended Amount Of Exercise
Why California’s Wildfires Are So Destructive, In 5 Charts
Psychology’s Replication Crisis Has Made The Field Better
Why We Still Don’t Know How Many NFL Players Have CTE
How To Make Good New Year’s Resolutions
Sports Science Is Finally Talking About Its Methodology Problems
Is Trump Trying To Politicize Agricultural Data? Some Former USDA Officials Suspect Yes.
You Don’t Need Sports Drinks To Stay Hydrated
How Jay Inslee Could Win The 2020 Democratic Nomination