Science Briefing is a personalised digest of recent scientific papers, summarising each study and explaining what it means for readers in a given field. The excerpts are short paper abstracts and teasers across neuroscience, medicine and cardiology, each with a note on relevance to a paramedic-type reader.
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Todd Kashdan's newsletter challenges popular assumptions about psychology, including hardship and character, relationships, and sexuality, drawing on research and interviews with experts. Readers get evidence-based, conversational takes that question conventional wisdom and offer practical relationship advice.
A professor of evolutionary psychology writes about sex differences, the nature-nurture debate, and human behaviour, often discussing new papers and excerpts from his book. Readers get research-based commentary with evolutionary context and the author's own views.
A paleontologist's blog about Ice Age fossils from Riverside County and the Western Science Center, working through unidentified bones from a poorly documented Temecula site and explaining museum practices like skeletal mounting. Readers get detailed, first-hand identification reasoning and insight into how museum exhibits are built.
Long-form essays that apply a physicist's lens to biology, cancer metabolism and the energy economics of AI-driven science. Readers get quantitative, cited analysis and skeptical readings of announcements such as AI-agent analysis of large CRISPR datasets.
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