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Jamie Jones
juemos
New paper out today with @MikePricePhD on how biological entities, who have been shaped by natural selection, should make decisions when the payoffs to those decisions are variable and have
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Post-Liberal Pete 🇬🇧
post_liberal
Important. Discussed by Haidt in his last book. Concepts such as trauma & prejudice (real things that exist) creeping downward - to apply to things of less severity - &
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Whyvert
whyvert
Lee Kuan Yew was a realist on IQ, heritability, race differences, and dysgenics.Was he the only prominent one who didn't get cancelled or fired?E.g a 1983 speech quoting up-to-date findings
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Charles C. Mann
CharlesCMann
New Nature paper uses genetic evidence to argue that pre-1492 population of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico was **much** lower than previously thought—fewer than 80,000 people.Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03053-2NY Times
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Iris @ FFXIV・CEO of Lesbians 🏳️🌈♀️🇺🇸🔞
lilykar2
Here's the thing about Cyberpunk: it's everything The Woke SAY they want: diversity, multiculturalism, representation, normalization. It's consciously political, critical of status quo. It allows players to experiment with gende
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✪SovietSpaceDog✪
palante_palante
When a socialist country undergoes a liberalization of the economy -- of using the market and participating in free trade with capitalist nations, and opening the economy for private businesses,
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Egyptian history
EgyptAnthro
A thread about the DNA (as well as cranial and dental) evidence that shows that Egyptians are overwhelmingly indigenous. 1) this one is the easiestNational Geographic Genographic project that concludes
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Tim Soret
timsoret
We are on the verge of a civilizational change.Yet outside of books, there is an intense philosophical void.Little thread. Pop culture is failing to prepare us to the shattering existential
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Conor Harris
Conor_Harris_
A thread on how body types affect athletic potential & how athletes succeedAny S&C coach knows that some athletes respond better to certain types of training more than others.Genetics are
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George Mack
george__mack
TODAY I LEARNT: Another outstanding episode from @farnamstreet, with the beautiful mind of @danariely. Dan has great mental models for making the good choices easier, and the bad choices harder.Here
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David Bowles (Mācuīl Ehēcatl) 🏳️🌈
DavidOBowles
Just yesterday, @lobahuisa and I were discussing the religious and cultural syncretism that existed in Mesoamerica before the Spanish invasion.When the Mexicah arrived in Anahuac (the Valley of Mexico), they
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Stephen A. Ramsey
stephenaramsey
I respectfully disagree with the claim of @manoliskellis that one should be comfortable putting one's genome on the web if one is comfortable searching the web. US statutory protections against
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Joel Blake 🏭
joelrandyblake
A Poor Kid's Path to Prosperity: Get good grades and high test scores. This comes naturally to some people, others have to work hard. Know yourself and do what it
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Dr Adam Rutherford
AdamRutherford
I'm seeing a lot of chat about PCR and COVID, some of it quite bonkers. So here’s a PCR 101. DNA is very small and therefore not easy to detect.
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Tirsoh
TirsohCartoons
One of the half truths we are told about copyright and patent laws is that it protects the people who come up with the ideas. If we reward people for
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Yixuan He
he_yix
How do environmental exposures and lifestyle factors compare to genetics and clinical factors for predicting risk of type 2 diabetes? Our paper just out in Diabetes Care introduces the polyexposure
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