Journalists, please pitch me! I edit mind & brain news at @sciam.bsky.social and I'm looking for psychology and neuroscience stories. I'm especially interested in consciousness science and linguistics. Guidelines and contact info: www.scientificamerican.com/page/submiss...

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I left my kindle at home and now I'll have to read the pretentious academic tome I brought with me purely as a prop for beach photos.

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I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place.

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3) Bringing a species back from extinction without resolving the conservation problem that caused them to go extinct makes no goddamn sense. They'll just go extinct again.

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Europeans hate US beef and poultry because it’s cruelly reared, pumped full of hormones and antibiotics, and washed in chlorine. The US FDA allows scores of chemicals in foodstuffs that are banned in EU food production. Buy European!

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