A New, Slightly More Comforting, Explanation For The Absence Of Aliens | IFLScience
Source: A New, Slightly More Comforting, Explanation For The Absence Of Aliens | IFLScience
Good use of my NAS and NUC
Human nature.
Source: A New, Slightly More Comforting, Explanation For The Absence Of Aliens | IFLScience
Source: Californians living with handgun owners more than twice as likely to die by homicide, study finds | News Center | Stanford Medicine. This is getting heavily downvoted where ever it appears. I wonder what lobby group is really scared about this research.
Source: Big-C creativity in artists and scientists is associated with more random global but less random local fMRI functional connectivity. – PsycNET
Source: How to Talk About Climate Change Across the Political Divide | The New Yorker
We humans like to think of ourselves as a unique species. However, little by little, all those traits that we have been relying on to ground this uniqueness have been falling, as the science advances and reveals the staggering diversity and complexity of animal minds and behaviour. We now have solid evidence of culture, morality, …
Source: Researchers reveal new suicide prevention tools from survivors | Cornell Chronicle
People who more strongly endorsed COVID-19 conspiracy theories reported greater concerns about their own safety and lower concerns about the safety of close others, compared to people who didn’t endorse the conspiracy theories as strongly Source: COVID conspiracy theorists: worried about others or just selfish? – UQ News – The University of Queensland, Australia
Doing stupid things that idiots think will somehow offend those more empathic is the epitome of belligerence. Plenty of imbeciles will do it. Source: The Fossil Fuel Debate’s Most Bizarre Byproduct: “Petro-Masculinity” – Mother Jones
Source: How to counter pseudoscience; it’s not about the evidence | Cognition Today
Will the future belong to the innovations that make our lives better, more fulfilled and more human? Or will it belong to those tools that prize our attention to the exclusion of everything else, compounding our fears and aggregating extremism, to serve ever-more-invasively-targeted ads over all other ambitions? Source: Tim Cook Implies That Facebook’s Business …
Source: The implications of jumping to conclusions — the behaviorist
Source: How Individuals With Dark Personality Traits are Reacting to COVID-19 – Psychiatry Advisor
Source: Children Prioritize Humans Over Animals Less Than Adults Do – Matti Wilks, Lucius Caviola, Guy Kahane, Paul Bloom, 2020
Source: Violent Video Games and Aggression: The Connection Is Dubious, at Best – Association for Psychological Science – APS