What’s News For February 10th? As always we search the globe for the most unique news items we can find!
1. Everything you always wanted to know about marginal likelihood https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.08334.pdf
2. Multiple lines of evidence showing Hispanics are moving away from the Democrat party https://ideasanddata.wordpress.com/…/are-hispanic…/
3. Observed patterns around major technological advancements. Apparent regularities in how major new technological capabilities and methods come about. https://www.lesswrong.com/…/observed-patterns-around…
4. New Super-Conducting Technology Takes Data Beyond Ones and Zeroes https://scitechdaily.com/new-super-conducting-technology…/
5. More heavily bombed areas in the Blitz in London exhibit taller buildings today. Without it, a simulation suggests the reduction in agglomeration economies arising from the loss of higher-density redevelopment would lead London’s GDP to drop by some 10% https://academic.oup.com/joeg/article/21/6/869/6213370…
6. Nuclear power is clean, safe and cheap. We need it to stop global heating https://www.opendemocracy.net/…/nuclear-power-is-clean…/
7. An excellent video explaining prediction markets and futarchy from Robin Hanson. https://youtu.be/4yZKGbq1YmA
8. Solar Geoengineering Research Is a Risk Worth Taking https://www.bloomberg.com/…/a-ban-on-solar…
9. Everything we see is a mash-up of the brain’s last 15 seconds of visual information https://theconversation.com/everything-we-see-is-a-mash…
10. New highly virulent and damaging HIV variant discovered in the Netherlands https://www.ox.ac.uk/…/2022-02-04-new-highly-virulent…
11. Modern’s HIV vaccine begins human trials https://www.them.us/…/hiv-aids-vaccine-human-trials…
12. Scientists leave the UK as China overtakes US as most favoured destination https://sciencebusiness.net/…/scientists-leave-uk-china…
