2016 : WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER THE MOST INTERESTING RECENT [SCIENTIFIC] NEWS? WHAT MAKES IT IMPORTANT?

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2016 : WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER THE MOST INTERESTING RECENT [SCIENTIFIC] NEWS? WHAT MAKES IT IMPORTANT?

Early Life Adversity and Collective Outcomes Linda Wilbrecht Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Psychology...	Q-Bio Nigel Goldenfeld Physicist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This Is The Science News Essay You Want To Read Marti Hearst Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information;...	An Unexpected, Very Haunting Signal Gerald Holton Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the...
Society Is Not A Machine, Optimization Not The Right Paradigm! Dirk Helbing Professor of Computational Social Science, ETH Zurich; TU...	Differentiable Programming David Dalrymple Research affiliate, MIT Media Lab
The Rule Of Anomalies Stephon H. Alexander Professor of Physics at Brown University; Author, The Jazz...	The (Much Anticipated) Dawn Of Understanding Thalia Wheatley Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences,...
How To Be Bad Together: Antisocial Punishment of Pro-social Cooperators Gloria Origgi Philosopher and Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche...	Quantum Entanglement Is Independent Of Space And Time Anton Zeilinger Nobel laureate (2022 - Physics); Physicist, University of...
Microbial Attractions Pamela Rosenkranz Artist	A World That Counts Alex "Sandy" Pentland Professor of Computer Science, MIT; Director, MIT...
r > g: Increasing Inequality of Wealth and Income is a Runaway Process S. Abbas Raza Founding Editor, 3QuarksDaily.com	The Big Bang Cannot Be What We Thought It Was Paul J. Steinhardt Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of...
The Hermeneutic Hypercycle Maximilian Schich Associate Professor in Arts and Technology, The University...	Computational Complexity And The Nature Of Reality Amanda Gefter Science writer; Author, Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn
The Mother Of All Addictions Helen Fisher Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why...	The Breathtaking Future Of A Connected World Christopher J. Anderson Curator, TED conferences, TED Talks; author, TED Talks
Synthetic Learning Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and...	Memory Is a Labile Fabrication Kate Jeffery Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Dept. of...
Emotions Influence Environmental Well-Being June Gruber Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado,...	That Dress Susan Blackmore Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth;...
Send In The Drones Diana Reiss Professor, Department of Psychology Hunter College; Author...	Pluto Now, Then On To 550 A.U. Gregory Benford Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine;...
Broke People Ignoring $20 Bills On The Sidewalk Michael Vassar Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, MetaMed Research	Technobiophilic Cities Scott Sampson President & CEO, Science World British Columbia;...
We Are Not Unique In The Universe, But We Are Very Much Alone Andrian Kreye Editor-at-large of the German Daily Newspaper, Sueddeutsche...	Self-Driving Genes Are Coming Stewart Brand Founder, the Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-...
The Epidemic Of Absence Matt Ridley Science Writer; Fellow, Royal Society of Literature and the...	The Strongest Prejudice Was Identified Jonathan Haidt Social Psychologist; Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical...
The Conquest Of Human Scale Charles Seife Professor of Journalism, New York University; Former...	Looking Where The Light Isn’t Brian G. Keating Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics,...
Deep Science Brian Knutson Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; Stanford...	Replacing Magic With Mechanism? Ross Anderson Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University
Anthropic Capitalism And The New Gimmick Economy Eric R. Weinstein Mathematician and Economist; Managing Director of Thiel...	Interdisciplinary Social Research Ziyad Marar President of Global Publishing, SAGE; Author, Judged: The...
The Origin Of Europeans Gregory Cochran Consultant; Adaptive Optics and Adjunct Professor of...	Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Work And Could Supplant Fossil Fuels Carl Page Serial Entrepreneur; Co-founder, eGroups
Religious Morality Is Mostly Below The Belt Michael McCullough Professor of Psychology, Director, Evolution and Human...	The Infancy Of Meta-Science Jonathan Schooler Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,...
The Dematerialization Of Consumption Rory Sutherland Vice-Chairman, Ogilvy London; Columnist, the Spectator;...	The Platinum Rule: Dense, Heavy, But Worth It Hazel Rose Markus Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford...
Einstein Was Wrong Hans Halvorson Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University	The Mating Crisis Among Educated Women David M. Buss Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;...
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Joichi Ito Director, MIT Media Lab; Coauthor (with Jeff Howe),...	New Experimental Probes Of Einstein’s Curved Spacetime—And Beyond? Steve Giddings Theoretical Physicist; Professor, Department of Physics,...
The Brain Is A Strange Planet Dustin Yellin Artist; Founder, Pioneer Works	Simplicity Neil Turok Director, Niels Bohr Chair in Theoretical Physics at...
Morality Is Made Of Meat Oliver Scott Curry Senior Researcher, Director, The Oxford Morals Project,...	Pluto Is A Bump In The Road Nicholas A. Christakis Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale...
Tabby's Star Yuri Milner Physicist; Entrepreneur & Venture Capitalist; Science...	Doing More With Less Freeman Dyson Physicist, Institute of Advanced Study; Author, Disturbing...
Our Collective Blind Spot Jennifer Jacquet Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU; Author,...	Complete Head Transplants Kai Krause Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, A Realtime...
There Is (Already) Life On Mars Michael I. Norton Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration,...	Everything Is Computation Joscha Bach Cognitive Scientist, MIT Media Lab, Harvard Program for...
Hope Beyond The Higgs Boson Sarah Demers Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics, Yale...	Hi, Guys Alan Alda Actor; Writer; Director; Host, PBS program Brains on Trial...
A Compelling Explanation For Science Misconduct Leo M. Chalupa Neurobiologist; Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology,...	One Hundred Years Of Failure Seth Lloyd Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author,...
Energy Of Nothing Andrei Linde Theoretical Physicist, Stanford; Father of Eternal Chaotic...	The Twin Tides Of Change Timo Hannay Founding Managing Director, SchoolDash; Co-organizer, Sci...
The Broadening Scope Of Science Tania Lombrozo Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley	Carpe Diem Ernst Pöppel Head of Research Group Systems, Neuroscience and Cognitive...
Magnet Meridian Contemporary Koo Jeong - A Artist	Diversity In Science Gino Segre Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of...
People Are Animals Laura Betzig Anthropologist; Historian	Rethinking Authority With The Blockchain Crypto Enlightenment Melanie Swan Philosophy and Economic Theory, the New School for Social...
Science Made This Possible Bruce Parker Visiting Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology; Author...	Fundamentally Newsworthy Stuart Firestein Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences,...
The Decline Of Cancer A. C. Grayling Master of the New College of the Humanities; Supernumerary...	Weapons Technology Powered Human Evolution Timothy Taylor Jan Eisner Professor of Archaeology, Comenius University in...
The Race Between Genetic Meltdown and Germline Engineering John Tooby Founder of field of Evolutionary Psychology; Co-director,...	Paleo-DNA and De-Extinction W. Tecumseh Fitch Professor of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna;...
A New Algorithm Makes Us Rethink What Computers Can—and Cannot—Do John Naughton Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts,...	J. M. Bergoglio’s 2015 Review of Global Ecology Stuart Pimm Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology, Duke University;...
Macro-Criminal Networks Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran Philosopher; Director, Scientific Vortex, Inc.	Pointing Is A Prerequisite For Language Nick Enfield Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University...
Use of 3D printing in the medical field Syed Tasnim Raza Medical Director, Cardiac Surgery Step-Down Unit at...	The Predictive Brain Lisa Feldman Barrett University Distinguished Professor of Psychology,...
True Breakthroughs Become Part Of The Culture Lisa Randall Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Dark Matter and the...	Science Itself Paul Bloom Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and...
The News That Wasn’t There Antony Garrett Lisi Theoretical physicist	Space Exploration, New and Old Robert Provine Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore...
Antibiotics Are Dead; Long Live Antibiotics! Aubrey de Grey Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation;...	The Ongoing Battles With Pathogens Robert Kurzban Psychologist, UPenn; Director, Penn Laboratory for...
Virtual Reality Goes Mainstream: A Complex Convolution Thomas Metzinger Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-...	Neuro-news Noga Arikha Associate Fellow, Warburg Insitute (London); Research...
Blue Marble 2.0 Giulio Boccaletti Chief Strategy Officer of The Nature Conservancy; Author,...	We Fear the Wrong Things David G. Myers Professor of Psychology, Hope College; Co-author,...
Psychology’s Crisis Ellen Winner Psychologist, Boston College; Author, How Art Works: A...	A Call To Action Hans Ulrich Obrist Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief...
A Collective Realization—We May All Die Horribly Robert Sapolsky Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Behave	Blinded By Data Gary Klein Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Seeing What...
Fatty Foods Are Good For Your Health Peter Turchin Evolutionary Scientist, University of Connecticut; Author,...	Unpublicized Implications Of Hawking Black Hole Evaporation Frank Tipler Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane University;...
Deep Learning, Semantics, And Society Steve Omohundro Scientist, Self-Aware Systems; Co-founder, Center for...	Progress In Rocketry George Dyson Science Historian; Author, Analogia
The Wisdom Race Is Heating Up Max Tegmark Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific...	Leaking, Thinning, Sliding Ice Laurence C. Smith Professor of Environmental Studies, Brown University;...
Human Chimeras David Haig George Putnam Professor of Biology, Harvard University;...	The 6 Billion Letters Of Our Genome Eric Topol Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Translational Science...
The Truthiness Of Scientific Research Judith Rich Harris Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The...	Biological Models of Mental Illness Reflect Essentialist Biases Bruce Hood Chair of Developmental Psychology in Society, University of...
Mathematics And Reality Clifford Pickover Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical...	The News Is Not The News Frank Wilczek Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics;...
Artificial Intelligence Rodney A. Brooks Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); Former Director...	Bugs R Us Nina Jablonski Biological Anthropologist and Paleobiologist; Evan Pugh...
3 Decarbonizing Scientific Breakthroughs and Some Lessons Learned Bill Joy Co-Founder, Former Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems;...	Growing A Brain In A Dish Simon Baron-Cohen Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of...
A New Space Age Takes Off…And Returns To Earth Again Peter Schwartz Futurist; Senior Vice President for Global Government...	Seeing Our Cyborg Selves Thomas A. Bass Professor of English and Journalism, State University of...
Bayesian Program Learning John C. Mather Nobel Prize in Physics; Senior Astrophysicist,...	The State Of The World Isn’t Nearly As Bad As You Think Steven R. Quartz Neuroscientist; Professor of Philosophy, Caltech; Co-author...
Gene Editing Will Transform Life Utterly Randolph Nesse Research Professor of Life Sciences, Director (2014-2019),...	A Genuine Science Of Learning Keith Devlin Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute,...
The Rejection of Science Itself Douglas Rushkoff Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks...	Breakthrough Listen Martin Rees Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of...
The Ironies of Higher Arithmetic Jim Holt Author and Essayist, New York Times. New Yorker, Slate;...	Feces Standard Money (FSM) Jaeweon Cho Professor of Environmental Engineering, UNIST; Director,...
The Epistemic Trainwreck Of Soft-Side Psychology Philip Tetlock Annenberg University Professor, University of Pennsylvania...	Theodiversity Ara Norenzayan Psychologist, University of British Columbia; Author, Big...
Cognitive Science Transforms Moral Philosophy Stephen J. Stich Board of Governors Professor, Department of Philosophy,...	News About How The Phyiscal World Operates Leonard Susskind Felix Bloch Professor in Theoretical Physics, Stanford;...
The Universe Surprised Us, Close To Home, In Unexpected Places, And Unexpected Ways Lawrence M. Krauss Theoretical Physicist; Foundation Professor, School of...	The En-Gendering Of Genius Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Philosopher, Novelist; Recipient, 2014 National Humanities...
News About Science News Sheizaf Rafaeli Professor, Director, The Center for Internet Research,...	Intellectual Convergence Adam Alter Psychologist; Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stern...
The Continually New You Stephen M. Kosslyn Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate...	A Science Of The Consequences Luca De Biase Journalist; Editor, Nova 24, of Il Sole 24 Ore
Sub-Prime Science Nicholas Humphrey Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of...	The Creation Of A "No Ethnic Majority" Society David Berreby Journalist; Author, Us and Them
Fear Of Dread Risks Gerd Gigerenzer Psychologist; Director, Harding Center for Risk Literacy,...	The Greatest Environmental Disaster in the World Today: Air Pollution Richard Muller Physicist, UC Berkeley; Author, Now: The Physics of Time
Interconnectedness Irene Pepperberg Research Associate & Lecturer, Harvard; Author, Alex...	The Most Powerful Carcinogen May Be Entropy George Johnson Author; The Cancer Chronicles, The Ten Most Beautiful...
The Great Convergence Quentin Hardy Deputy Technology Editor, The New York Times; Former...	We Are Not Special Kurt Gray Associate Professor of Psychology, University of North...
Programming Reality Neil Gershenfeld Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms;...	DNA Programming Paul Dolan Behavioral Scientist, LSE; Author, Happy Ever After
How Widely Should We Draw The Circle? Scott Aaronson David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science,...	I, For One Joshua Bongard Cyril G. Veinott Green and Gold Professor, Department of...
Imaging Deep Learning Andy Clark Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, Department of Philosophy...	Modernity Is Winning Gregory Paul Independent Researcher; Author, The Princeton Field Guide...
The Thin Line Between Mental Illness And Mental Health Joel Gold Psychiatrist; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,...	Open Water–The Internet Of Visible Thought Peter Gabriel Musician
The Neural Net Reloaded Jamshed Bharucha Psychologist; President Emeritus, Cooper Union	Neural Hacking, Handprints, And The Empathy Deficit Daniel Goleman Psychologist; Author (with Richard Davidson), Altered Traits
News That Stayed News Mary Catherine Bateson Professor Emerita, George Mason University; Visiting...	Toddlers Can Master Computers Alison Gopnik Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the...
Big Data And Better Government Margaret Levi Sara Miller McCune Director, Center For Advanced Study in...	The Democratization of Science Michael Shermer Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Monthly Columnist, Scientific...
Neuroprediction Abigail Marsh Associate Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University	Juice James Croak Artist
The Immune System: A Grand Unifying Theory for Biomedical Research Buddhini Samarasinghe Molecular Biologist	The State Of The Brain Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the...
Cancer Drugs For Brain Diseases Todd C. Sacktor Distinguished Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology, and...	Sensors: Accelerating The Pace Of Scientific Discovery Paul Saffo Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor,...
The News Behind The News Alun Anderson Senior Consultant (and former Editor-in-Chief and...	Human Progress Quantified Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;...
We Know All The Particles And Forces That We’re Made Of Sean Carroll Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, Something Deeply...	No News Is Astounding News Lee Smolin Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Einstein's...
The Facility Whose Data May Help Formulate And Test Ideas About A Final Theory Of Our Universe Is Now Working Gordon Kane Theoretical Particle Physicist and Cosmologist; Victor...	The Healthy Diet U-Turn Ed Regis Science writer; Author, Monsters
Designer Humans Mark Pagel Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Reading University, UK;...	Adjusting To Feathered Dinosaurs John McWhorter Professor of Linguistics and Western Civilization, Columbia...
Gigantic Black Holes At The Center Of Galaxies Carlo Rovelli Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille University, in the...	The Trust Metric John Gottman Psychologist; Co-founder, The Gottman Relationship...
Optogenetics Christian Keysers Neuroscientist; Director, Social Brain Lab, Netherlands...	Advanced Ligo And Advanced Virgo Paul Davies Theoretical physicist; cosmologist; astro-biologist; co-...
The Longevity Of News Diana Deutsch Professor of Psychology, University of California, San...	Weather Prediction Has Quietly Gotten A Lot Better Samuel Arbesman Complexity Scientist; Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital...
Life Diverging… Juan Enriquez Managing Director, Excel Venture Management; Co-author (...	The Universe Is Infinite Rudy Rucker Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Cyberpunk Pioneer;...
People Kill Because It’s The Right Thing To Do James J. O'Donnell Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, Pagans	Global Warming: Once Again, A Most Serious Challenge To Our Species Milford H. Wolpoff Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan; Adjunct...
Harnessing Our Natural Defenses Against Cancer Michael Hochberg Evolutionist, CNRS, Santa Fe Institute, Institute for...	Super Massive Black Holes Jeremy Bernstein Professor Emeritus, Stevens Institute of Technology; Former...
Extraterrestrials Don’t Land On Earth! David Christian Director, Big History Institute and Distinguished Professor...	Datasets Over Algorithms Alexander Wissner-Gross Scientist; Inventor; Entrepreneur; Investor
The Word: First As Art, Then As Science Brian Christian Author, The Most Human Human; Co-author (with Tom Griffiths...	Cellular Alchemy Roger Highfield Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Co-author...
The Convergence Of Images And Technology Victoria Wyatt Associate Professor of History in Art, University of...	Glaciers Robert Trivers Evolutionary Biologist; Professor of Anthropology and...
Life In The Milky Way Mario Livio Astrophysicist; Author, Why?: What Makes Us Curious	Systems Medicine Stuart A. Kauffman Professor of Biological Sciences, Physics, Astronomy,...
A Cheap, Naturalistic, Large-Scale Research Method Designed To Assess And Interpret Our Social Media Linguistic Interactions Nathalie Nahai Web Psychologist, Speaker; Author, Webs of Influence: The...	High Tech Stone Age Tor Nørretranders Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Mindful Opening And Meeting Of Minds Christine Finn Archaeologist; Journalist; Author, Artifacts, Past Poetic	A Robust Challenge To The Value Of A University Education Steve Fuller Philosopher; Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology,...
Nootropic Neural News George Church Professor, Harvard University; Director, Personal Genome...	Linking The Levels Of Human Variation Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of...
Our Changing Conceptions Of What It Means To Be Human Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard...	The Abdication Of Space-Time Donald D. Hoffman Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, The Case Against...
Those Annoying Ads? The Harbinger Of Good Things To Come Roger Schank CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of...	The Disillusionment Hypothesis And The Decline and Disaffection For Poor White Americans Richard Nisbett Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of...
The Most Important X...Y...Z... Jared Diamond Professor of Geography, University of California Los...	Identifying The Principles, Perhaps The Laws, Of Intelligence Pamela McCorduck Author, Machines Who Think, The Universal Machine, Bounded...