Tuesday, July 21, 2020

From 2013... . Hegelian-Marxist Pornology, Lack of Courage, and Babbling Theorizing

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Pornodialectics: From Coming to Becoming. Bradley Tuck. One+One Issue 10. Feb 25 2013. https://www.academia.edu/3723924/ Introduction: ...

Are there means to help optimize the (science, technology, and enterprise) components of Earth System predictability research? Would a top-down Systems-of-Systems design & development approach help advance research?

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2020. Earth System Predictability Research and Development: Proceedings of a Work...

All the 4 facets of justice sensitivity were moderately heritable (21%–33%) & the non-shared environmental factors accounted for the rest variations (67%–79%); sensitivity to others’ suffering is grounded upon genetic origin

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Heritability of justice sensitivity. Wang,Yun 1,2,3 ; Luo,Yu 3,4 ; Wu, Shengtao 5 ; Zhou, Yuan. PsyChinaXiv, Jul 10 2020. http://psych.china...

Children Are Not Losing Contact with Nature: They have less experience with traditional extensive farming activities, but have much more experience with nature, connected with recreational and field-trip activities

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Are Children Actually Losing Contact with Nature, or Is It That Their Experiences Differ from Those of 120 years Ago? Petr Novotný et al. En...

From 2019... Resistance, Subversion, and the Absence of Religion in Traditional Societies

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From 2019... Resistance, Subversion, and the Absence of Religion in Traditional Societies. June 2019. Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Richard Sosis...

Germany 2003-2017: Overall physical activity remained stable among youths in the past ten years, however, there is an ongoing trend towards organized forms of PA at the expense of unorganized sports and playing outside

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The physical activity of children and adolescents in Germany 2003-2017: The MoMo-study. Steffen C. E. Schmidt ,Bastian Anedda,Alexander Burc...

Mixed cyber aggressor-victims reported more social dominance and dating partners, and highly reactive cyber aggressor-victims reported more sexual partners, when compared to uninvolved peers

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Social advantages and disadvantages associated with cyber aggression-victimization: A Latent Class Analysis. Kiana R. Lapierre, Andrew V. Da...
Monday, July 20, 2020

Rolf Degen summarizing... People differ systematically in the tendency to see the best or worst in others, with women and the less educated being more likely to take a rosy view

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Seeing the Best or Worst in Others: A Measure of Generalized Other-Perceptions. Richard Rau et al. Assessment, February 26, 2020. https://do...

Decline in adolescent drinking: Some possible explanations

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Decline in adolescent drinking: Some possible explanations. Ingeborg Rossow  Hilde Pape  Leila Torgersen. Drug and Alcohol Review, July 19 2...

The Opioid Epidemic Was Not Caused by Economic Distress But by Factors that Could be More Rapidly Addressed

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The Opioid Epidemic Was Not Caused by Economic Distress But by Factors that Could be More Rapidly Addressed. Janet Currie, Hannes Schwandt N...

Effects of credit restrictions in the Netherlands and lessons for macroprudential policy: 1960s-1990s

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Effects of credit restrictions in the Netherlands and lessons for macroprudential policy. Gabriele Galati, Jan Kakes and Richhild Moessner. ...

Canada was left with a self-selected group who didn't want much from life: an agrarian, very religious, austere population of peasants and labourers who tended to see a consumer economy as generally sinful excess

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Maximum Canada: Toward a Country of 100 Million Paperback. Doug Saunders. August 20, 2019. https://www.amazon.com/Maximum-Canada-Million-Can...

Increased pillow talk (i.e., communication after sexual activity) produces greater relationship satisfaction for men (but not women), but does not benefit either group’s physiological stress responses

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Exploring the effects of pillow talk on relationship satisfaction and physiological stress responses to couples’ difficult conversations. Am...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

Whites with darker skin will be motivated to protect the boundaries of Whiteness due to the loss of status they would face if not White; they are more likely to hold conservative political views on racialized issues

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Shades of Privilege: The Relationship Between Skin Color and Political Attitudes Among White Americans. Nicole Yadon & Mara C. Ostfeld ....

No direct association between contraceptives use and the risk of female sexual dysfunction was found; nevertheless, declining sexual desire was significantly associated with contraceptives use

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Huang M, Li G, Liu J, et al. Is There an Association Between Contraception and Sexual Dysfunction in Women? A Systematic Review and Meta-ana...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

Feynman on utter honesty & scientific integrity: "Cargo Cult Science," 1974

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Feynman on utter honesty & scientific integrity: "Cargo Cult Science," 1974. http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCu...

Effects of Leaving a Covenantal Religion: Those who experienced more push toward disaffiliation, reported decreased current wellness; significant differences in the experiences of disaffiliation between men & women

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Engelman, Joel, Glen Milstein, Irvin S. Schonfeld, and Joshua B. Grubbs. 2019. “Leaving a Covenantal Religion: Orthodox Jewish Disaffiliatio...

Initiation of Drug and Alcohol Use and Personality Development During Adolescence: initiation of substance use leads to changes in personality; cocaine and cigarettes were the substances that had the largest impact

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Wright, Amanda J., and Joshua J. Jackson. 2020. “What Happens After Your First Time? Initiation of Drug and Alcohol Use and Personality Deve...

Gray Matter Microstructure: While macrostructural features, like brain volume, are mainly genetically influenced, there are genetic & environmental influences on microstructure

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Quantifying Genetic and Environmental Influence on Gray Matter Microstructure Using Diffusion MRI. Madhura Baxi, Maria A Di Biase, Amanda E...
Friday, July 17, 2020

At least 16 species of deep-sea fishes have ultra-black skin; by reducing reflectance, ultra-black fish can reduce the sighting distance of visual predators more than 6-fold compared to fish with 2% reflectance

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Ultra-black Camouflage in Deep-Sea Fishes. Alexander L. Davis, Kate N. Thomas, Freya E. Goetz, Bruce H. Robison, Sonke Johnsen, Karen J. Osb...

Negative relationship quality, notably, criticism received from one’s spouse or partner, heightens older adults’ risk of mortality

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Bookwala, J., & Gaugler, T. (2020). Relationship quality and 5-year mortality risk. Health Psychology, 39(8), 633–641. https://doi.org/1...

Individuals who moved in with a partner/got married/separated from a partner primarily experienced changes in openness in the first year; & those who separated from a partner/got divorced became less emotionally stable

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Asselmann, E., & Specht, J. (2020). Taking the ups and downs at the rollercoaster of love: Associations between major life events in the...