Links for 2021-10-11
We are failing to see how much better off humanity could be — “An heart-felt attempt to help you envision future potential.” — Robin Hanson youtube.com/watch?v=aAQR-_GKaR8
Antioxidant drug reverses process responsible for heart attacks and strokes https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-antioxidant-drug-reverses-responsible-heart.html
Ways to accelerate aging research https://longitudinal.blog/2021/10/03/ways-to-accelerate-aging-research/
BioNTech reports promising data on mRNA cocktail in mouse models of colon cancer and melanoma https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/biontech-reports-promising-data-mrna-cocktail-mouse-models-colon-cancer-and-melanoma
A breakthrough in building phase change memory that consumes little power may make phase change memory practical, allowing tighter integration between processors and storage. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-stanford-discovery-pave-ultrafast-energy-efficient.html
“…sociopolitical conservatism is extraordinarily heritable (74%) for the most informed fifth of the public – much more so than population-level results (57%) – but with much lower heritability (29%) for the public’s bottom half.” https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-experimental-political-science/article/genes-ideology-and-sophistication/91C7C343BBA8801732F62E7D55B16676
The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) and its possible impact on the outcomes of elections: “Specifically, we show that (i) biased search rankings can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20% or more, (ii) the shift can be much higher in some demographic groups, and (iii) such rankings can be masked so that people show no awareness of the manipulation.” https://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/E4512
Meet the College Student Who Makes His Own Chips https://thenewstack.io/meet-the-college-student-who-makes-his-own-chips/
In virtually every country that has closed nuclear plants, clean electricity has been replaced with dirty power. https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/08/energy-crisis-nuclear-natural-gas-renewable-climate/
For First Time, Half of Americans Favor Defending Taiwan If China Invades https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/research/public-opinion-survey/first-time-half-americans-favor-defending-taiwan-if-china-invades