dvergano

dvergano, 12 days ago to random

jic you need a sense of smell over a life time graphic, Evolutionary Anthropology has you covered

"Smell throughout the life course"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/V6QIJMRAIVWV7XB7HAIA?target=10.1002/evan.22030

dvergano, 2 months ago to random

Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't.

The Strongman Fantasy
And Dictatorship in Real Life

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-strongman-fantasy?r=e1ktt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

dvergano, 2 months ago to random

Political Ads Can Target Your Personality. Here’s What Could Go Wrong

This banner year for elections worldwide may witness the arrival of advertising tailored to your personality

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/political-ads-can-target-your-personality-heres-what-could-go-wrong/

dvergano, 3 months ago to random

"Prevalence of energy drink consumption world-wide: A systematic review and meta-analysis"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/add.16390?campaign=woletoc

"world-wide-pooled prevalence was estimated to be 54.7%"

dvergano, 5 months ago to random

"...we formally test whether Christian nationalism is associated with greater symptoms of anger and non-specific psychological distress (anxiety and depression)..."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ssqu.13327?campaign=wolearlyview

"we find that stronger Christian nationalist beliefs are associated with greater psychological distress. However, we offer an important extension to this literature by demonstrating that Christian nationalist beliefs are also found to be associated with greater anger."

dvergano, 5 months ago to random

"What causes threats directed at the president?"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PNYJ6YWPWZQR8CCIDIGQ?target=10.1111/psq.12865

tldr: Racists

"Civil rights issues in particular may serve as a strong provocation for political violence. .."

"...during times of heightened social conflict, presidents who take positions, advocate for legislation, or sign executive orders on controversial issues, such as expanding civil rights, and who challenge the existing social order seem to receive a greater amount of political violence."

JamesGleick, 6 months ago to random

A more direct headline would be:

Trump Showing Signs of Cognitive Decay https://newsie.social/@stevesilberman/111325420691387497

dvergano, 7 months ago to random

"The role of cable news hosts in public support for Supreme Court decisions" - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jels.12367?campaign=wolearlyview

"The concept of a “celebrity journalist” and its implications for the age of the cable news host"

NinaBernstein1, 8 months ago to random

Enough already! So tired of these stories about Dem voters wanting a younger candidate. The reality check:
“Any discussion of an alternative is little more than a fantasy, they say, since challenging Mr. Biden would not only appear disloyal but would also most likely fail — and potentially weaken the president’s general-election standing.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/17/us/politics/biden-democrats-voter-concerns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

dvergano, 8 months ago to random

A blast from the past from Phil Plait, @badastro,
from when the lies just seemed risibly stupid, and not seditious and diabolic -- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/moon-landing-hoax-early-antiscience-conspiracy-theory-shot/

contains Phil's origin story, when I sent a radioactive VHS tape to bite him, unaware the fate of the multiverse was at stake

maxkennerly, 8 months ago to random

Presumably there'd be Congressional interest in a private citizen monitoring an ally's military in real-time, chatting with the enemy about it, then thwarting the ally. But the GOP House will protect Musk, and the Senate will likely continue its proud tradition of doing nothing.

Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”

dvergano, 8 months ago to random

The old and the new way of understanding autistic lives: Reflections on the life of Donald Triplett, the first person diagnosed as autistic

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13623613231194476

"...the story of a contented, comfortable man who lived on his own terms..."

dvergano, 8 months ago to random

My stubborn refusal to sell back my freshman physics textbook for $5 to the Penn State bookstore four decades ago perhaps my best financial decision ever. a) kids using example problems to study for their tests now, and b) propped up sagging couch in living room for three years.

A big win for the real book industry.

clive, 9 months ago to random

When did people stop being drunk all the time?

A fascinating historical analysis: https://lefineder.substack.com/p/when-did-people-stop-being-drunk

dvergano, 9 months ago to random

" How Loud Does the Watchdog Bark? A Reconsideration of Losing Local Journalism, News Nonprofits, and Political Corruption"

The International Journal of Press/Politics.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19401612231186939?ai=37f&ui=nrw1&af=T

"US newspaper newsroom employees dropped by 57 percent between 2008 and 2020—from about 71,000 to 31,000"

"...our findings suggest that nonprofit interventions in failing local commercial news markets may be an important safeguard for keeping public officials accountable."