Links for 2021-10-25
Ashkenazim and Sepharadim thrived under the pressure of marginalisation yet in lands where Jews were only curiosities, they were swallowed by the majority population and disappeared. razib.substack.com/p/under-pressure-the-paradox-of-the
Trumps chance to be next President about same as Biden + Harris. 40% chance someone else. https://electionbettingodds.com/
Pre-agriculture gender relations seem bad: “…it looks as though most of these societies have rules and/or norms that aggressively and categorically limit women's influence and activities.” https://www.cold-takes.com/hunter-gatherer-gender-relations-seem-bad/
Non-magnetic objects induced to move by electromagnets: “A set of electromagnets has been used to move metal objects without touching them, even though the objects are not magnetic. This method could potentially be used like a ‘tractor beam’ to move hazardous objects in space.” [paywall] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02771-5
Leaded fuel reduced the IQ of everyone born before 1990 by ~4.25%. Millennials are the first to be born with unleaded gas [paywall] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2613136
Environmental lead levels from leaded gasoline are still around in cities today and cause continued neurotoxicity. [paywall] https://www.pnas.org/content/118/26/e2102791118
"Lead exposure accounts for a loss of 23 million IQ points in a 6-year birth cohort of US children" https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5736171/pdf/pbio.2003066.pdf
Hormone-disrupting plastics and reproductive health youtube.com/watch?v=Uo-kSxHNSDQ
Sex differences in upset over being deceived in online dating...Males more upset by a date's attractiveness deception, females more upset by a date's deception over status/resources, in line with evolved mate preferences https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-01945-6
Chinese-built security cameras are pretty much everywhere. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/china-america-surveillance-hikvision/620404/
Long description of how sailors failed to fight the fire aboard light carrier USS Bonhomme Richard in 2020. https://news.usni.org/2021/10/19/long-chain-of-failures-left-sailors-unprepared-to-fight-uss-bonhomme-richard-investigation-finds