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Daisy Yuhas

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As seen in: Public Health Watch, Scientific American, Medium, El País, NBC News, Salon, Audubon, Texas Tribune, Genetic Literacy Project, Spektrum.de, El Diario de El Paso, Activist Post and
Covers:  brain, behavior, animal behavior, health
Author of the Kids' Field Guide to Birds; Contributing Editor for @_TheTransmitter & @SciAm Mind Matters (rarely on social but trying to get better!)

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Science writer and editor
Covers brain and behavioral science
Author of the Kids' Field Guide to Birds
Contributing editor for The Transmitter and Scientific American

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How mental exhaustion changes the choices you make

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By Daisy Yuhas Verified
| Scientific American Verified
Neuroscientists show how the brain weighs effort against reward when we're mentally fatigued This scenario will feel familiar to many parents: Imagine spending the day watching your kids—making them breakfast, settling arguments, answering their questions and trying to keep them from getting bored.
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How a Futurama writer's plot problem led to a totally new math proof

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By Daisy Yuhas Verified, Manon Bischoff Verified
| Scientific American Verified
In an episode of the cartoon, a machine lets characters swap bodies, but they can't switch back with the same person. Math helped all the characters return to their original bodies This article is from Proof Positive , our friendly math newsletter that's delivered to your inbox every Tuesday afternoon. Sign up today and read it first. Nerdy jokes are no longer rarities on TV. As I wrote about a few weeks ago, even The Simpsons is rife with mathematical high jinks.
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Supreme Court Decision on Roundup Weedkiller Highlights Another Dangerous Pesticide — Paraquat

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By Marcus Stern, Daisy Yuhas Verified
| Activist Post
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision on June 25 shielding Bayer, the maker of Roundup, from claims it failed to warn of the weedkiller’s cancer risk could do more than close the courthouse door on tens of thousands of lawsuits. It pushes the national fight over paraquat — linked for decades to Parkinson’s disease — back to the two institutions critics say have spent decades failing to act on it: the EPA and Congress.
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