Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Bill Gates: Rich nations' populations should shift entirely to synthetic beef because the prices will be low enough, but maybe we will "use regulation to totally shift the demand"

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Bill Gates: Rich nations should shift entirely to synthetic beef. James Temple. MIT Technology Review, February 14, 2021. https://www.techno...

Filter bubbles and digital echo chambers. Judith Möller. Chapter in The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism, 2021

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Filter bubbles and digital echo chambers. Judith Möller. Chapter in The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism, 2021, http...

What Proportion of the Coupled Population Cheats? Despite dozens of studies, the true prevalence of infidelity remains a mystery

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What Proportion of the Coupled Population Cheats? Despite dozens of studies, the true prevalence of infidelity remains a mystery. Michael Ca...
Monday, February 15, 2021

241 million observations from 3.3 million women across 109 countries: The menstrual cycle had the greatest magnitude for most of the measured dimensions of mood, behaviour and vital signs

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Daily, weekly, seasonal and menstrual cycles in women’s mood, behaviour and vital signs. Emma Pierson, Tim Althoff, Daniel Thomas, Paula Hil...

Perceived negative effects of social media are stronger for others than for oneself; & the beneficial effects of social media platforms are perceived to be stronger for the self than for society

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Antecedents of support for social media content moderation and platform regulation: the role of presumed effects on self and others. Martin ...

Voice attractiveness also conveys important psycho-socio-biological information that have a significant effect on the speaker’s mating and reproductive success

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Vocal Preferences in Humans: A Systematic Review. Melissa Barkat-Defradas, Michel Raymond, Alexandre Suire. Chapter in Voice Attractiveness ...

Chimpanzees both revealed a substantially higher frequency of general mirror-related behaviors & engaged in significantly more and longer behaviors indicating self recognition when provided with small mirrors

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Small mirrors do the trick: A simple, but effective method to study mirror self-recognition in chimpanzees. Kathrin S. Kopp et al. Accepted ...

From 2017... From paranoid readings to post-capitalist futures: Move away from a capitalocentric understanding of online pornography towards a 'diverse economies' approach

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From 2017... The diverse economies of online pornography: From paranoid readings to post-capitalist futures. Eleanor Wilkinson. Sexualities,...

Analyzing a global sample of 4 million authors and 26 million scientific papers: The top 1% most-cited scientists have increased their cumulative citation shares from 14 to 21% between 2000 and 2015

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Global citation inequality is on the rise. Mathias Wullum Nielsen and Jens Peter Andersen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...

Respondents interviewed in the months preceding election day report significantly lower levels of life satisfaction; once voting has taken place, aggregate well-being immediately returns to its regular average

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Changes in Well-Being Around Elections. Nicolas Schreiner. WWZ, Working Paper 2021/03, January 21, 2021. https://edoc.unibas.ch/81295/1/2021...
Sunday, February 14, 2021

From 2019... Rolf Degen summarizing... Neurotic psychotherapists achieved better outcomes with their clients

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From 2019... The professional and personal characteristics of effective psychotherapists: a systematic review. Erkki Heinonen  & Helene ...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Tweets about new scientific findings rarely succeed in getting readers to click on the linked sources

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How is science clicked on Twitter? Click metrics for Bitly short links to scientific publications. Zhichao Fang  Rodrigo Costas  Wencan Tian...

Testosterone therapy masculinizes speech and gender presentation in transgender men

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Testosterone therapy masculinizes speech and gender presentation in transgender men. Carolyn R. Hodges-Simeon, Graham P. O. Grail, Graham Al...