On participants in developmental psychology studies: "Countries in Central and South America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Israel contain around 85 per cent of the world's population, yet contributed less than three per cent of participants."
"at least since 1959, there an inverse correlation between poverty and homicide in the US. Homicide goes up when poverty decreases. Statically significant and everything. Well, that's awkward."
"dry counties with at least one wet neighbor saw baseline infant mortality increase by roughly 3% while wet counties themselves saw baseline infant mortality increase by roughly 2%. Cumulating across the six years from 1934 to 1939, our results indicate an excess of 13,665 infant deaths that could be attributable to the repeal of federal prohibition in 1933."
Passive temperature control technologies sound really interesting. See also How to keep cool without costing the Earth which looks at a different approach to passive cooling.
I guess it shouldn't be too surprising that they're putting together a Stargate spinoff. Will I watch it? Probably at least one episode but I'm fairly skeptical about the long-term prospects here:
"Data from the General Social Survey suggest that conservatives have be-come less trustful of scientists since the 1970s. ... the General Social Survey data concern trust in scientists, not in science. We suggest that conservatives’ diminishing trust in scientists reflects the fact that scientists in certain fields, particularly social science, have increasingly adopted a liberal-activist stance, seeking to influence public policy in a liberal direction."
