Selectively breeding the most *individually* productive hens leads to lower overall egg production, so chicken farmers have cleverly learned to shift selection to the level of the *group*. Economists, on the other hand >
A highly placed Zelensky admin source to me: “Keeping the Americans in the dark was also key to keeping the Russian intelligence services and army from being able to prepare. “We have learned some very hard lessons from the events of the previous counteroffensive,” a highly
New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school
- significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls
- reduced bullying among both genders
- improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates
- largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids
Italy’s Foreign Press Association moved into Silvio Berlusconi’s old Rome apartment this morning. First discovery was a secret door to a back staircase. Good way to allow party guests to leave in a hurry?
Easy-to-make deepfake memes are showing up on Twitter, Instagram, and especially TikTok. So our photo editor decided to make one of one of our AI writers. The rapidly increasing accessibility of this technology raises new concerns about its abuse.
Smart people tend to accrue many accomplishments with age.
The people who go into Mensa tend to be smart people who didn't realize their potential, but they still want to be seen as smart.
Accordingly, Mensa samples distort relationships between intelligence and other outcomes.
The government of El Salvador made a declaration of national mourning over the passing of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama.
(I've seen Japanese mainstream media coverage of the French government's reaction, but not much about Latin American countries.)
“It looks like the original paper that established the amyloid plaque model as the foundation of Alzheimer’s research over the last 16 years might not just be wrong, but a deliberate fraud.”
Liberal democracy won the 20th century decisively. So why does it seem to be on the back foot in the 21st?
Maybe it's a coincidence, or a result of specific actions. But maybe there's something deep and structural going on as well.
To cut a long story short...the authors may not exist, the institution has no record of the study, no ethics application seems to have been filed, and at the time the study was written in the region it supposedly came from there were only 2 confirmed COVID-19 cases
On some measures men and women differ on average, but more striking is that men tend to be more variable, with more each extreme. New paper: Converging evidence for greater male variability in time, risk, and social preferences
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Germany is caught in the high-income version of the middle-income trap: "Roughly one-quarter of German jobs depend on exports, compared with about 6% in the US. Germany’s home market is too small to absorb the surplus production of its firms."