Ryan Jacobs, Author at Pacific Standard

Is the Dog Poo Problem Solvable?

It's really complicated, researchers say. So probably not.

University of Kentucky geographers used millions of geotagged tweets to produce fascinating beer maps of the United States.

In more primitive times, stigmatization used to be a helpful evolutionary adaptation. In a more civilized age, it could be an illness amplifier.

The visual field accounts for the recent past in order to prevent us from feeling like we've gone mad.

Not according to a pair of quantum physicists.

It decreases the formation of carcinogenic material.

When it comes to driving pro-environmental behavior, provincial norms are the most effective.

A conversation about the grim business of predicting mass atrocities.

A new study disputes the empathy theory.

With psychotropic drug cocktails, of course.