Underestimating Counterparts’ Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations.
From the comments on Do bamboos set themselves on fire: Mruwnik brings up pyrophytes, a category of plants that use fire as a part of their normal life cycle. This one is my favourite:
In an essay from 1999, Richard Stallman describes an hypothetical online user-contributed encyclopedia from the future.
Fœtuses can taste what their mother is eating and it has downstream consequences on baby behaviour. I’ll wait for the replication.
Rattractor: Instant guidance of a rat into a virtual cage using a deep brain stimulation. Is this animal abuse?
I tend to be skeptical about gender pay discrimination, but this new study is one of the most convincing I’ve seen so far. Of course they are not accounting for all possible confounders, but it’s less apples-to-oranges than usual. Kumquats-to-oranges, maybe.
Also in discrimination: bystanders are less likely to perform CPR on ethnic minorities.
Market exposure and human morality, based on the motifs that appear in the folklore of pre-industrial societies (see also this older article).
Wholesale wikipedias
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_Washington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown_college
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophrenia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysaesthesia_aethiopica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-standard_dates#January_0 (soon)