Sunday, August 8, 2021

Max Planck Institut's MPI-M Earth System Model v1.2: To prevent a sensitivity of 7C in average temperature instead of the right value (2.77C), an atmospheric parameter had to be tuned by a factor of 10 (!)

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Mauritsen, T., Bader, J., Becker, T., Behrens, J., Bittner, M., Brokopf, R., et al. (2019). Developments in the MPI-M Earth System Model ver...

Women learn while men talk?: Women appear to need a sense of higher levels of competence in order to engage with online political content, especially for sharing and commenting

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Women learn while men talk?: revisiting gender differences in political engagement in online environments. Darren Lilleker et al. Informatio...

News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding Information Overload—News avoidance indeed has a positive effect on perceived well-being

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News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding Information Overload. Kiki de Bruin et al. Digital Journalism, Aug 6 2021. https://...
Saturday, August 7, 2021

Squirrel parkour

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Acrobatic squirrels learn to leap and land on tree branches without falling. Nathaniel H. Hunt et al. Science  Aug 6 2021:Vol. 373, Issue 65...

Humans resist unequal distributions of goods in their social interactions, even if it requires foregoing personal gains—Study Finds A Causal Role of the Insula in Aversion to Social Inequity Via Lesion Evidence

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Lesion Evidence for a Causal Role of the Insula in Aversion to Social Inequity. Felix Jan Nitsch, Hannah Strenger, Stefan Knecht, Bettina St...

Politically partisan left-right online news echo chambers are real, but only a minority of approximately 5% of internet news users inhabit them; the continued popularity of mainstream outlets often preclude the formation of large partisan echo chambers

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How Many People Live in Politically Partisan Online News Echo Chambers in Different Countries? Richard Fletcher, Craig T. Robertson, Rasmus ...

Found that anal sex had a much later age of initiation compared to oral and vaginal sex; anal sex is a less common and more sexually advanced behavior and may require greater preparation compared to oral and vaginal varieties

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Roberts H, Clark A, Sherman C, Heitzeg MM, Hicks BM (2021) Age, sex, and other demographic trends in sexual behavior in the United States: I...

The agony of partner choice: Excessive partner availability increased fear of being single, and perceived overload, and decreased self-esteem

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The agony of partner choice: The effect of excessive partner availability on fear of being single, self-esteem, and partner choice overload....

Political Taste: Exploring how perception of bitter substances may reveal risk tolerance and political preferences

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Friesen, A., Ksiazkiewicz, A., & Gothreau, C. (2021). Political Taste: Exploring how perception of bitter substances may reveal risk tol...
Friday, August 6, 2021

Folklore in 1000 societies: Communities with low tolerance towards antisocial behavior, captured by the prevalence of tricksters getting punished, are more trusting and prosperous today

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Folklore. Stelios Michalopoulos and Melanie Meng Xue. NBER Working Paper No. 25430. January 2019, Revised January 2021. https://www.nber.org...

Some people may frequently forget about their age and be horrified at those moments when they realise their age

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What does feeling younger or older than one’s chronological age mean to men and women? Qualitative and quantitative findings from the PROTEC...