Disparata öar

(Bryggor.)

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Goda nyheter för alla plast-troende: TGPGP växer riktigt snabbt! (Det älltså the Great Pacific Garbage Patch som vi pratar om.)

"[...] our results suggest that ocean plastic pollution within the GPGP is increasing exponentially and at a faster rate than in surrounding waters."

Exponentiell tillväxt... That's some Hans Rosling shiet right there.

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Goda nyheter för homo vetenskapiens. Folk som vägrar konventionella medicinska insatser, och istället förlitar sig på alternativmedicin, dör dubbelt så ofta. Två gånger, således.

"In this cohort study of 1 901 815 patients, use of complementary medicine varied by several factors and was associated with refusal of conventional cancer treatment, and with a 2-fold greater risk of death compared with patients who had no complementary medicine use."

Nice tho att vi fortfarande upptäcker nya organ - allt är uppenbarligen inte gjort. Keep on keepin' on, vetenskapen!

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(Relaterat: Putin erövrar världen; Pomerantsevs bok; syntetiserar allt; populationen och populasen.)

Ryssland, som tidigare förstört demokratin, har nu dock också förstört den allmänna opinionen med avseende på just medicinvetenskapen. Tydligen är ryska troll medskyldiga till den växande masskepsisen mot vaccinationer.

"Conclusions. Whereas bots that spread malware and unsolicited content disseminated antivaccine messages, Russian trolls promoted discord. Accounts masquerading as legitimate users create false equivalency, eroding public consensus on vaccination."

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Ragnarök, dvs. ett climate change-relaterat massutdöende i paritet med perm/trias-klimatkrisen, är ett faktum. Snart. Let's do something, y'all.

"We explore the risk that self-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth System toward a planetary threshold that, if crossed, could prevent stabilization of the climate at intermediate temperature rises and cause continued warming on a “Hothouse Earth” pathway even as human emissions are reduced. Crossing the threshold would lead to a much higher global average temperature than any interglacial in the past 1.2 million years and to sea levels significantly higher than at any time in the Holocene. We examine the evidence that such a threshold might exist and where it might be. If the threshold is crossed, the resulting trajectory would likely cause serious disruptions to ecosystems, society, and economies. Collective human action is required to steer the Earth System away from a potential threshold and stabilize it in a habitable interglacial-like state. Such action entails stewardship of the entire Earth System—biosphere, climate, and societies—and could include decarbonization of the global economy, enhancement of biosphere carbon sinks, behavioral changes, technological innovations, new governance arrangements, and transformed social values."

(Och korallreven dör också, sa jag det? Liksom djuren och växterna. Polarisarna smälter snabbare än nån hade trott. Och ölen håller på att ta slut! Dags att ta den här skiten på allvar för fan.)

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Fan, jag får nog dra tillbaka viss kritik kopplat till neandertalarnas bristande kreativitet. De visar sig att these dudes målade grottor långt innan sapiens got going:

"It has been suggested that Neandertals, as well as modern humans, may have painted caves. Hoffmann et al. used uranium-thorium dating of carbonate crusts to show that cave paintings from three different sites in Spain must be older than 64,000 years. These paintings are the oldest dated cave paintings in the world. Importantly, they predate the arrival of modern humans in Europe by at least 20,000 years, which suggests that they must be of Neandertal origin. The cave art comprises mainly red and black paintings and includes representations of various animals, linear signs, geometric shapes, hand stencils, and handprints. Thus, Neandertals possessed a much richer symbolic behavior than previously assumed."

(Relaterat: Gammal, gammal målning!)

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Och på tal om det: Blandningshypotesen fortsätter sitt segertåg. Nu helt utan oss sapiens-apor.

"Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct groups of hominins that separated from each other more than 390,000 years ago. Here we present the genome of ‘Denisova 11’, a bone fragment from Denisova Cave (Russia) and show that it comes from an individual who had a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. The father, whose genome bears traces of Neanderthal ancestry, came from a population related to a later Denisovan found in the cave. The mother came from a population more closely related to Neanderthals who lived later in Europe than to an earlier Neanderthal found in Denisova Cave, suggesting that migrations of Neanderthals between eastern and western Eurasia occurred sometime after 120,000 years ago. The finding of a first-generation Neanderthal–Denisovan offspring among the small number of archaic specimens sequenced to date suggests that mixing between Late Pleistocene hominin groups was common when they met."

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Oh, yes, det är Mosanto som dödar bina. Jävla skit.

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Det där med jämställdhetsparadoxen är studerat. Och ja, den är. Paradoxal. (Min fetstil nedan.)

"RESULTS 

The data revealed substantial cross-country variation in gender differences in preferences. Gender differences were found to be strongly positively associated with economic development as well as gender equality. These relationships held for each preference separately as well as for a summary index of differences in all preferences jointly. Quantitatively, this summary index exhibited correlations of 0.67 (P < 0.0001) with log GDP per capita and 0.56 (P < 0.0001) with a Gender Equality Index (a joint measure of four indices of gender equality), respectively. To isolate the separate impacts of economic development and gender equality, we conducted a conditional analysis, finding a quantitatively large and statistically significant association between gender differences and log GDP per capita conditional on the Gender Equality Index, and vice versa. These findings remained robust in several validation tests, such as accounting for potential culture-specific survey response behavior, aggregation bias, and nonlinear relationships. 

CONCLUSION 

The reported evidence indicates that higher levels of economic development and gender equality favor the manifestation of gender differences in preferences across countries. Our results highlight the critical role of availability of material and social resources, as well as gender-equal access to these resources, in facilitating the independent formation and expression of gender-specific preferences."

Annan studie med snarlik slutsats här, specifikt utifrån STEM-området (min fetstil):

"Paradoxically, the sex differences in the magnitude of relative academic strengths and pursuit of STEM degrees rose with increases in national gender equality. The gap between boys’ science achievement and girls’ reading achievement relative to their mean academic performance was near universal. These sex differences in academic strengths and attitudes toward science correlated with the STEM graduation gap. A mediation analysis suggested that life-quality pressures in less gender-equal countries promote girls’ and women’s engagement with STEM subjects.

Så, detta verkar vara avgjort helt enkelt.

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Ge bläckfiskar MDMA är också forskning. Och ja, de blir mer sociala de också.

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Mer om Bajau-folket! Större mjälte m.fl. adaptioner är genetiskt bestämt, så vitt jag tolkar mumbo-jumbot ifråga. (Relaterat: Allt om Bajau-folket, ba' jao.)

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Asså är det bara jag som tycker att replikerbarheten är helt okej hög ändå?

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Slut.