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September 2, 2019

Genes linked to being gay may help straight people get more sex. The largest-ever study of genetics and sexual orientation offers a theory about the longevity of genes that influence homosexuality.

That Beloved Hospital? It’s Driving Up Health Care Costs. It’s easy to criticize pharmaceutical and insurance companies. But we spend much more on hospitals.

The Body Electric.

Brain-reading tech is coming. The law is not ready to protect us.

The algorithms encode biases surrounding attractiveness, perpetuating the stereotype that “what is beautiful is good.” Furthermore, women are often misinterpreted as men.

Results show psychopathy was related to sociosexuality, specific factors of social intelligence, and generating higher desirability ratings from women after controlling for men’s physical attractiveness.

The Idiotic Reason That Egg Companies Are Turning to Plastic Packaging.

Who falls for rumor? Influence of personality traits on false rumor belief.

Millions of Americans have full-time jobs that don’t pay enough to make ends meet. So they have to work a second job, too.

September 1, 2019

Archaeologists worldwide pooled their knowledge of past land use — and pushed back the date when human farming and other practices began altering the planet.

The bottom half of all U.S. households, as measured by wealth, have only recently regained the wealth lost in the 2007-2009 recession and still have 32% less wealth, adjusted for inflation, than in 2003, according to recent Federal Reserve figures.

737 Max: Boeing’s Crashes Expose Systemic Failings.

What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work.

Quantum radar has been demonstrated for the first time.

Greta Thunberg’s Slow Boat to New York.

In total, new commenters were asked to read approximately 205,000 words, about the equivalent of Moby-Dick, before typing a single sentence at Shakesville.

Women on the far right.

No, no, you have no idea. It actually IS the beginning of the whole so-called “kawaii culture”. And it started because girls started using mechanical pencils, which provided fine handwriting. After being banished (more precisely, during the 80s), this kind of writing started being used in products like magazines and make-up.

The Misogyny of Climate Deniers.

Worrying About ‘Bulky’ Muscles on Women Is Some Sexist Bullshit. And it’s extremely difficult for most women to get truly bulky. Talking 10 years in the gym every day kind of hard.

Hilariously Terrible Kitchen Designs.

Friends is absolute garbage.

Why do sloths move so slowly?

We Men of Science.

It’s Time to Try Fossil-Fuel Executives for Crimes Against Humanity.

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