What’s News For February 27th? As always we search the globe to find the news overlooked or ignored by the MSM!
1. Across cultures, people group stars in the night sky into many of the same constellations, suggesting the influence of deep-seated principles of perception common to human nature. https://journals.sagepub.com/…/10.1177/09567976211044157
2. A research effort led by Stanford scientists set the first Guinness World Record for the fastest DNA sequencing technique, which was used to sequence a human genome in just 5 hours and 2 minutes. https://med.stanford.edu/…/dna-sequencing-technique.html
3. “The first draft of the human genome was completed at a cost…of about $3 billion. Just 22 years later…consumer can buy a kit from Nebula in the US or Dante…and send in their spit for a whole-genome sequence at a cost of between $100 $1,000” https://razib.substack.com/…/life-science-comes-at-you…
4. First Successful Implantation of Revolutionary Artificial Vision Brain Implant https://scitechdaily.com/first-successful-implantation…/
5. What happens to proxy wars once great powers develop fully autonomous weapons? https://nuclearspaceheater.tumblr.com/…/the-long…
6. Eternal inflation: when probabilities fail — “…the selection of the appropriate inductive logic is an empirical matter to be decided by the physical facts and background conditions of an eternally inflating cosmology.” https://sites.pitt.edu/…/eternal_inflation_final.pdf
7. Preschool has negative effects on academic achievement and non-academic outcomes. https://drive.google.com/…/1vfShplpa…/view
8. Gwern on the failures of 20th century eugenics. https://www.gwern.net/Dune-genetics#alternative-paradigms
9. Magpies have outwitted scientists by helping each other remove tracking devices https://www.abc.net.au/…/magpies-show…/10085145810. No Evidence Against the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis: A Commentary on Harrison et al.’s Meta-Analysis of Animal Personality https://psyarxiv.com/6ua8r
11. “Global warming is real. It is also – so far – mostly beneficial. This startling fact is kept from the public by a determined effort on the part of alarmists and their media allies” https://www.rationaloptimist.com/…/how-global-warming…/
What’s News For February 27th? As always we search the globe to find the news overlooked or ignored by the MSM!
