Are Humans The Only Rational Animals? (academic.oup.com)
A human experiment in nerve division (academic.oup.com)
From the history of pretty crazy self experimentation in medicine, a doctor has a cutaneous branch of his own radial nerve surgically cut. He then meticulously documents the progress of nerve regrowth, initial total numbness followed by neuropathic pain, and a partial return of sensation over time
Does Pricing Carbon Mitigate Climate Change? Firm-Level Evidence from the European Union Emissions Trading System (academic.oup.com)
"Using administrative data, we estimate that, on average, the EU ETS – the world’s first and largest market-based climate policy – induced regulated manufacturing firms to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 14-16% with no detectable contractions in economic activity. "
[2020] Content Moderation Technologies: Applying Human Rights Standards to Protect Freedom of Expression (academic.oup.com)
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Steeper at the top: cognitive ability and earnings in Finland and Norway (academic.oup.com)
High Lead Levels in 2 Independent and Authenticated Locks of Beethoven’s Hair (academic.oup.com)
The composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s health issues throughout his life are well documented, with many conjectures on the cause of his death from liver and kidney disease. The presence of high hair lead concentration in Beethoven led to speculation by Reiter, who claimed that it caused the composer’s ailments, including his...
German towns and cities with a history of medieval pogroms were likelier to support Fascism (academic.oup.com)
cross‐posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/691946...
The Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture (academic.oup.com)
Abstract The Neolithic revolution saw the independent development of agriculture among at least seven unconnected hunter-gatherer populations. I propose that the rapid spread of agricultural techniques resulted from increased climatic seasonality causing hunter-gatherers to adopt a sedentary lifestyle and store food for the...
Young Plasma Rejuvenates Blood DNA Methylation Profile, Extends Mean Lifespan, and Improves Physical Appearance in Old Rats (academic.oup.com)
Purple is the new green: biopigments and spectra of Earth-like purple worlds (academic.oup.com)
Using life on Earth as our guide we identified purple bacteria as biota that could dominate a wide range of environments on exoplanets....
Frame Variation in Child Protectionist Claims: Constructions of Gay Men and Transgender Women as Strangers (Amy L Stone, 2019) (academic.oup.com)
This research studies how the idea of "child protection" has been historically misused as a tool for discriminating against gay men, portraying them as a danger to children. Over time, this argument evolved into subtler claims as it became less effective and faced greater rejection from the general public due to increased public...
Brains creating stories of selves: the neural basis of autobiographical reasoning (academic.oup.com)
Sensory trap leads to reliable communication without a shift in nonsexual responses to the model cue (academic.oup.com)
Human papillomavirus infection increases the risk of death from cardiovascular diseases in women - The risk increased several times (academic.oup.com)
The dark matter profile of the Milky Way inferred from its circular velocity curve (academic.oup.com)
Invasive cervical cancer incidence following bivalent human papillomavirus vaccination: a population-based observational study of age at immunization, dose, and deprivation (academic.oup.com)
AbstractBackground. High-risk human papillomavirus causes cervical cancer. Vaccines have been developed that significantly reduce the incidence of preinvasive a
The value of information gathering in phage–bacteria warfare (academic.oup.com)
From Vexing Uncertainty to Intellectual Humility (academic.oup.com)
Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices: Spices taste good because they are good for us (academic.oup.com)
Toxic comments are associated with reduced activity of volunteer editors on Wikipedia (academic.oup.com)
What Makes Heavy Metal ‘Heavy’? (academic.oup.com)
The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory (academic.oup.com)
The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory (academic.oup.com)
Climate conditions become "very distressing and potentially unmanageable for large regions of the world", new report says (academic.oup.com)
A group of international scientists warn that the effects of global warming are “progressively more severe, and possibilities such as a worldwide societal breakdown are feasible and dangerously underexplored.”...