Links from Spring 2023
Darwinian evolution of prion proteins, no DNA involved (h/t Eukaryote)
Claims on inflation: producer prices are decreasing but consumer prices are still rising, and companies are increasing their profits instead. I’m not qualified to fact-check any of this, but I feel like people in my ideological tribe overlook this possibility.
Ceci, Kahn and Williams’ adversarial collaboration about gender bias in academic science, a very thorough review of the available evidence. Most of the focus has been on the main claim that there’s basically no bias against women in STEM fields, but I think it misses the most interesting part: a section called “role of citation bias in fostering beliefs in existence of gender bias”. It gives some hints about how smart and responsible academics could end up with a completely distorted vision of the world.
Brain wave synchrony between teachers and students.
An empirical experiment about the Ideological Turing Test. Some surprising results.
Meta-contrarian take of the season: Dying to die: New micro and macro evidence that suicide terrorists are suicidal. “The decision of some terrorists to sacrifice their life may well have been subject to over-theorization.”
On drosophila, it looks like the link between food deprivation and aging does not come from the lack of nutrients, but from the sensation of hunger itself (full text).
Everything is correlated: “We present a model for how wind speed on Election Day affects voting by shifting the regulatory focus of voters.”
Wholesale wikipedias
Windfucker (a bird)