In Obesity Research, Fatphobia Is Always the X Factor

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March 08, 2021

Behavior & Society In Obesity Research, Fatphobia Is Always the X Factor Contrary to what you've undoubtedly been told, you can be fat and fit at the same time By Virginia Sole-Smith

Evolution Neandertals Probably Perceived Speech Quite Well Could they speak, too? Did they proposition modern humans in an interspecies creole language? By Jan Osterkamp

Evolution Prehistoric Plankton Became Predators to Survive a Mass Extinction When the sun disappeared, tiny coccoliths turned to hunting By Riley Black

Energy Utilities Are Installing Big Batteries at a Record Pace Blackouts due to wildfires and wild weather are prompting action By Corbin Hiar,E&E News

Neurological Health We Need to Rename ADHD Calling it a disorder falsely implies we know of a cause located in the brains of people diagnosed with ADHD—and we don't By Branko van Hulst,Sander Werkhoven,Sarah Durston

Policy & Ethics Biden Should Push States and Cities to Use Stimulus Money for Gun Violence Prevention As we build back from one public health crisis, we must take steps to address another By Joseph V. Sakran,Chethan Sathya,Corey Ciorciari

Biology Hummingbirds' Iridescent Feathers Are Still a Bit of a Mystery Scientists still don't know the full purpose of this changeable biological trait By Leslie Nemo

Cognition Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate and Gesturer Laureate She shows us that gestures are not mere hand-waving; they can convey images that either magnify speech or even add new ideas not found in the spoken word By Susan Goldin-Meadow

Space Hearing about the Big Bang for the First Time A jaded old science writer rediscovers the thrill of science by teaching undergraduates By John Horgan

Policy & Ethics In Case You Missed It Top news from around the world By Sarah Lewin Frasier

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FROM THE ARCHIVE What if Doctors Stopped Prescribing Weight Loss? Focusing on body size isn't making people healthier. Some clinicians are trying a different approach By Virginia Sole-Smith | July 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "To give the impression that changing your weight status from obese to overweight or normal weight is this straightforward, easy thing to do is to effectively ignore 50 years of research." Marlene B. Schwartz, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut

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