RT @historyinmemes: In Japan's Edo period (1603–1868), wealthy women employed female servants known as "heoibikani" to accept responsibilit….

RT @bryan_caplan: Cool paper! A twin study showing which external factors durably cause happiness - and which ones don't. .

RT @JesusFerna7026: 🇲🇽 Mexico’s Fertility Collapse 📉. In 2023, Mexico’s total fertility rate (TFR) was just 1.60. Yes—lower than the U.S. (….

RT @Osint613: The firenado that occurred during the Deer Creek Fire near La Sal, Utah Saturday has been rated as a EF-2, with maximum winds….

RT @JackKornfield: When you sit, you recognize the river of the mind. 🏞️. Like rivers, feelings and thoughts come and go, relationships com….

RT @historyinmemes: In Biertan, Romania, a church used a "divorce room" to counsel couples seeking separation. For two weeks, they were con….

RT @PatrickTBrown31: Corroborating @RogerPielkeJr's summary here, Zhang et al. 2022 also have some nice plots illustrating that both observ….

RT @douglewinenergy: There's a new battery record in Texas. Last night was the first time batteries discharged over 6,000 megawatts of powe….

Great egret fishing in the Mink River estuary, Door County, WI. A truly beautiful place. Didn't catch any fish, but it didn't matter. The egret did catch fish, effortlessly.

Here are @tedgioia’s key principles for a new indie movement in music and the arts, to free us from the algorithms, memes, sequels, stasis, and top-down control.

RT @jmhorp: "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world. "For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent. "For depriving us in man….

Comparing the value of perceived human versus AI-generated empathy | Nature Human Behaviour

RT @Psyched_Alpha: Reps Jack Bergman (R) and Lou Correa (D) successfully had an amendment inserted into the House Military Construction and….

Lucian Leape, Whose Work Spurred Patient Safety in Medicine, Dies at 94 - The New York Times

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RT @peterboghossian: . @ZohranKMamdani has a degree from Bowdoin College. His father, Mahmood Mamdani, has a degree from Harvard. His mothe….

If there is a bigger scam than the fitness club industry and their cancellation policies, I don't know what it is. Absolutely crooked from top to bottom using every dark pattern known to man. #FFC.

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RT @AlexAndBooks_: General Jim Mattis on the importance of reading: