Friday, January 15, 2021

Facial recognition technology: Political orientation was correctly classified in 72% of liberal–conservative face pairs, remarkably better than chance (50%), human accuracy (55%), or 100-item questionnaire (66%)

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Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial images. Michal Kosinski. Scientific Reports volume 1...

This is a clear indication that the global signal from human-induced climate change is now as powerful as the force of nature, said Prof. Taalas

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2020 was one of three warmest years on record. World Meteorological Organization Press Release Number 14012021. January 14 2021. https://pub...

Although some mating strategies among gay people resemble heterosexuals of the same sex, others resemble heterosexuals of the opposite sex, & yet in others, the pattern is different than among either heterosexual men or women

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Valentova, Jaroslava V., and Marco Antonio C. Varella. 2021. “Initiation of Non-heterosexual Relationships.” PsyArXiv. January 14. doi:10.31...

Monkeys Prefer Reality Tee Vee

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Bliss-Moreau, Eliza, Anthony Santistevan, and Christopher Machado. 2021. “Monkeys Prefer Reality Television.” PsyArXiv. January 12. doi:10.3...

Much of science, including public health research, focuses on means (averages); the purpose of the present paper is to reinforce the idea that variability matters just as well

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Variability Matters. Maarten Jan Wensink, Linda Juel Ahrenfeldt and Sören Möller. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(1), 157; Dece...

Discrimination was positively associated with anxiety and negative affect, operationalized by a common latent factor; anxiety and related disorders are not a result of common genetic liability alone

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Discrimination and anxiety: Using multiple polygenic scores to control for genetic liability. Adolfo G. Cuevas, Frank D. Mann, David R. Will...

The Serpentine Illusion: A Visual Motion Illusion Induced by Phase-Shifted Line Gratings

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The Serpentine Illusion: A Visual Motion Illusion Induced by Phase-Shifted Line Gratings. Junxiang Luo et al. Front. Neurosci., December 7 2...

Integrated information as a possible basis for plant consciousness: Surgical interventions suggest the shoot, root and cambial meristems are candidates for regions of integrated information

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Integrated information as a possible basis for plant consciousness. Paco Calvo, František Baluška, AnthonyTrewavas. Biochemical and Biophysi...

What Caring for My Aging Parents Taught Me That Medical Education Did Not

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What Caring for My Aging Parents Taught Me That Medical Education Did Not. David I. Rappaport. JAMA Neurol. 2021;78(1):7-8. Nov 23 2020, doi...

Individual donors prefer to support ideologically extreme candidates; relaxation of contribution limits from political action committees lead to the selection of more moderate legislators

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Ideological Donors, Contribution Limits, and the Polarization of American Legislatures. Michael J. Barber. The Journal of Politics, Volume 7...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Oxford guys think that, in 2030, Africa total electricity generation will more than double current levels, & fossil fuels will account for 62pct of all generated electricity; of 2,500 power plants, about half will be coal & gas

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A machine-learning approach to predicting Africa’s electricity mix based on planned power plants and their chances of success. Galina Alova,...

When news is repeatedly retold it undergoes a stylistic transformation (disagreeable personalization), wherein original facts are increasingly supplanted by opinions and interpretations, with a slant toward negativity

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The Dynamics of Distortion: How Successive Summarization Alters the Retelling of News. Shiri Melumad, Robert Meyer, Yoon Duk Kim. Journal of...

Most women do not want a career in STEM and nor do most men; why should the small fraction of women who do want such a career be the same size as the small fraction of men?

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Men, women and STEM: Why the differences and what should be done? Steve Stewart-Williams, Lewis G Halsey. European Journal of Personality, J...