Fonts Can Send Political Messages, Don’t Always Trust Your First Instinct, and Nucleic Acids Beyond DNA and RNA

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🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Learn about how certain fonts can send political messages; why the “first instinct fallacy” says you shouldn’t always go with your first instinct; and why DNA and RNA are just two of millions of possible genetic molecules.

Fonts can send political messages by Kelsey Donk

Fonts in campaign communications have liberal or conservative leanings. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/vt-fic012420.php
What’s in a Font?: Ideological Perceptions of Typography. (2019). Communication Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10510974.2019.1692884

The "first instinct fallacy" says your gut response isn't always right by Steffie Drucker

Harford, T. (2019, May 10). Our first instinct is far too often wrong. Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/32e4b22e-7197-11e9-bbfb-5c68069fbd15
Couchman, J. J. (2015, September 3). Should you rely on first instincts when answering a multiple choice exam? The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/should-you-rely-on-first-instincts-when-answering-a-multiple-choice-exam-43313
Kruger, J., Wirtz, D., & Miller, D. T. (2005). Counterfactual thinking and the first instinct fallacy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88(5), 725–735. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.88.5.725
Couchman, J. J., Miller, N. E., Zmuda, S. J., Feather, K., & Schwartzmeyer, T. (2015). The instinct fallacy: the metacognition of answering and revising during college exams. Metacognition and Learning, 11(2), 171–185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-015-9140-8

DNA and RNA are only two of millions of possible genetic molecules by Grant Currin

DNA is only one among millions of possible genetic molecules. (2019). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/tiot-dio103119.php
Mandelbaum, R. F. (2019, November 12). DNA Could Be One of a Million Possible Genetic Molecules. Gizmodo; Gizmodo. https://gizmodo.com/dna-could-be-one-of-a-million-possible-genetic-molecule-1839807587
Cleaves, H. J., Butch, C., Burger, P. B., Goodwin, J., & Meringer, M. (2019). One Among Millions: The Chemical Space of Nucleic Acid-Like Molecules. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 59(10), 4266–4277. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00632

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:06.0	I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.0	Today you learn about how certain fonts can send political messages, why you shouldn't always go with your first instinct, and why
0:15.0	DNA and RNA are just two of millions of possible genetic molecules.
0:20.1	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:22.3	Here's something weird.
0:23.4	Certain fonts can send political messages.
0:26.7	And with that, I am announcing my campaign for presidency
0:30.2	using Comic Sans MS. Well, actually, when you listen to this research,
0:35.0	you're going to realize why you don't want to use Comic Sans,
0:37.0	because nobody likes it.
0:39.0	And liking fonts is one big part of this.
0:41.0	I like Comic Sans. No, you don't. Nobody likes Comic Sans.
0:45.6	Fine I'll run using papyrus. Even worse. My running mate will be Matthew McConaughey.
0:51.7	All right, well a little while ago, a researcher at Virginia Tech named Catherine
0:56.4	Hanson noticed that a local political candidate used different fonts on their
1:00.8	signs in rural areas than they did in town. As a political
1:04.9	messaging expert she wondered why. Was there something different about the
1:08.8	fonts that worked best with people in the city versus people in the country?
1:12.2	So Hanschen turned that question in with people in the city versus people in the country?
1:12.8	So Hanshin turned that question into a research project.
1:16.6	She and her team surveyed more than 2,000 people
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