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Once those have been eliminated, their extraversion predicts very long lives, because there’s a correlation between optimism and health, and extraverts are the great optimists. more here:

Because nunneries are places where extraverts have to sublimate the parts of their personality that most present them to risk. Nuns aren’t really allowed to go motor-bike racing or bungee-jumping or all-night raving - they have to rein in their riskiest or risqué-ist desires.

The personality trait that predicts lower life expectancy is extroversion. Extroverts like risk, they like parties, they're more likely to drink, smoke, sky-dive etc... EXCEPT in one beautiful instance. In a convent, extravert nuns are the nuns who live the longest. Why?

🚨 OK, I need your help. Andy Burnham's advisor Sacha Lord is threatening to sue @ManchesterMill. So we're publishing the document at the heart of the story - and asking for your help with a 'community fact-check'. My editor's note. Pls share. https://t.co/4sottZR1Tq

Some very exciting news...🚨 We've raised money from a group of readers and supporters, including ex-NYT CEO Mark Thompson and longtime Mill members like @turi and @DianeCoyle1859. It means this model can now expand - more journalists, more cities. https://t.co/WQ4MIt0Unk

In 1750, France had a population of 25M and were the China of Europe. If the French had continued growing at the same pace as the rest of Europe, they'd be 250M today. Why they stopped, and what the consequences were, are fascinating. @gguillaumeblanc https://t.co/va0gYTN7nN

Startling polling from @Unherd, on the eve of the 3rd anniversary of Brexit. In all 650 UK constituencies apart from three (all in Lincolnshire), more people now agree than disagree that Brexit was a mistake. Biggest movement in left leaning areas. https://t.co/tkb239vrTl

New paper! Here's the one-minute version. There's a puzzle I've been thinking about for a long time. Wealthy countries tend to be happier...

Big news for press freedom in the Philippines... #proudinvestor @northbasemedia https://t.co/Bv9HaSfLp6

⁦@propublica⁩ check your ad providers. I just got this, obscene at the best of times, while reading a piece about welfare support for single parents. 😳

This godforsaken country of Anglicans has miles more TV coverage of the death of Pele than of Pope Benedict.

This is lovely. "Elevating amateurism to an art" - making the case for amateurism, for putting real work into it, for committing to the discipline - "not only an act of delight and self-expression, but of curiosity and stepping into the unknown"

Uplifting story amidst the gloom: The 18-month-old @sheffieldtrib reached 1000 subs today. That means along with @ManchesterMill and @liverpoolpost, there are now 3,500 people paying for high quality northern journalism from publications that *didn't exist* before the pandemic.

Tres beau (et tres court). Les planetes de Bruno Latour - ou comment notre idee de nous meme depend de notre idee de la terre. https://t.co/TY2k0pbaCj

I’m not American, but I’m the context oD Thanksgiving, this is fascinating. There is a universal bias in human imagination: people think things could be better. It may be one of the greatest obstacles to being grateful for what we have.

This thread is wild.

Right-wing authoritarian attitudes tend to be hereditary too, with between 30-60% of the variance in social and political attitudes explained by genetics

Every single thing about Qatar’s World Cup has been a PR catastrophe for the country. In the pantheon of heroic PR disasters, does anything even come close?

Twitter grieving Twitter's death by spending record amounts of time on Twitter and carrying on as normal is (charmingly, wonderfully, movingly) very Twitter.