Links for 2021-09-10
mRNA cancer therapy works (in mice): “Nineteen of 20 mice treated with the four-component mixture had complete tumor regression.” Now in human trials. https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/biontech-reports-promising-data-mrna-cocktail-mouse-models-colon-cancer-and-melanoma
Tolerance requires IQ: "Cognitive ability was the single strongest predictor of political tolerance, with larger effects than education, openness, ideology, and threat. …Ability predicted tolerance best when extending such tolerance was hardest" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jopy.12667
New Evidence against the Standard Model of Cosmology — “What does it mean? It means the evidence is mounting that the cosmological principle is a bad assumption to develop a model for the entire universe and it probably has to go. It increasingly looks like we live in a region in the universe that happens to have a significantly lower density than the average in the visible universe.” https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/09/new-evidence-against-standard-model-of.html
Try it yourself: Text-Driven Manipulation of StyleGAN Imagery https://replicate.ai/orpatashnik/styleclip
Richard Feynman's paper trying to make sense of negative probabilities: http://cds.cern.ch/record/154856/
USB cables that can pwn your computer are now a commodity on the Internet. https://shop.hak5.org/products/o-mg-cable-usb-a
Jebel Sahaba is one of the oldest burial sites showing evidence for Palaeolithic violence and warfare. A re-evaluation of the bones has revealed scores of new lesions and stone projectile injuries, confirming the area saw repeated raids and skirmishes. https://nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89386-y
“when alpha males of some species are preoccupied with fighting, weaker bystander males can take advantage of the commotion to mate with otherwise inaccessible females. This is actually known among zoologists as the ‘sneaky-fucker strategy.’” https://amzn.to/38GqeRK
“In this paper, students with different academic ability were assigned to groups for a single week for college orientation. Low-ability students placed with high ability students become discouraged, with significantly lower grades & higher dropout rates for the next 4 years.” https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2021.3993