Links for 2022-08-05
June 29 was the shortest day in recorded history — a 'wobble' in the Earth's spin shaved off 1.59 milliseconds https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/shortest-day-2022
"... correlations between national IQ scores and the three national fertility indicators were as follows; Total Fertility Rate (r=−0.71, p<0.01), Birth Rate (r=−0.75, p<0.01), and Population Growth Rate (r=−0.52, p<0.01)." https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289607000244
A large study of Swedish families (~2 million) found that the misattributed paternity rate decreased from ~3% in 1930 to 1% in 2010, and was inversely associated with education level https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joim.13351
"People who are willing to pay nearly an hour’s worth of wages for privacy are also willing to give away their data for small monetary bonuses if given a chance to avoid seeing the consequences to privacy." https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/718680?journalCode=jls
SAR 101: An Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar https://www.capellaspace.com/sar-101-an-introduction-to-synthetic-aperture-radar/
Book Review: A Global History of the Black Death https://undark.org/2022/07/29/book-review-a-global-history-of-the-black-death/
“It has been speculated that life could exist in the liquid methane and ethane that form rivers and lakes on Titan's surface, just as organisms on Earth live in water.Such hypothetical creatures would take in H2 in place of O2, react it with acetylene instead of glucose, and produce methane instead of carbon dioxide.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Titan
The mere exposure effect ("familiarity breeds liking") is one of the classic cornerstones of academic psychology. And unfortunately, it failed to replicate just now. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-84296-001
A new study based on data from the 19th century gives insight into how few of us can expect to have grandchildren and great-grandchildren. https://sciencenorway.no/childlessness-demography-fertility/more-than-half-of-us-may-end-up-without-descendants/2055465
Institutional racism isn't a new phenomenon at Harvard. Today it is directed against Asians but once it was directed against Jews. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/harvard-s-jewish-problem