This morning - completely by coincidence - I stumbled across an interview of Dr. René Mõttus about personality and the BIG 5. Very interesting!

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Peter Singer recently started a new project.  Bold Reasoning with Peter Singer: 

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Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness

Two major problems with a review in Nature

JON HAIDT APR 09, 2024

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Vielen Dank für Von Viren, Fledermäusen und Menschen! Fledermäuse sind toll! :)
 
The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals - Merlin Tuttle
 
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Some Unintuitive Properties Of Polygenic Disorders - Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

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E. Fuller Torrey recently published a journal article trying to cast doubt on the commonly-accepted claim that schizophrenia is mostly genetic. Most of his points were ...

I think the first time Roy came onto my catamaran DHARMA BUM was 12 September 1989 in Kourou, French Guyana and he had devastating news for me.  We have been friends since those days and so far have met twice more.
 
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Sind wir alle bisexuell? - 42 - Die Antwort auf fast alles - Arte - Wissenschaft - Wissen kompakt

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Genetiker Abdel Abdellaoui vom Amsterdam UMC fängt nach ungefähr 14:50 Minuten an zu sprechen.

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Most Delicious Poison - The Story of Nature's Toxins - From Spices to Vices - Noah Whiteman

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The origins of toxins produced by plants, mushrooms, microbes, and even some animals. The mechanisms that animals evolved to overcome them

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And now for a short commercial break:

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I don't know whether you can still download all your raw data. If you can, make sure to start the download *immediately* and that you have loads of space on your HDD or SSD left.

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

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Twenty-First Century Plague: The Story of SARS - Thomas Abraham - Publication Date May 30, 2007

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Today I started listening to Kevin Mitchell's "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will". Pretty convincing so far (I am at 21%) and I am looking forward to Robert Sapolsky's arguments. www.audible.com/pd/Free-Agen...

GENETICS - How Life Really Works - Just as I uncovered a new way to understand life, I got news about my own. - PHILIP BALL
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The irony seemed a bit heavy-handed, frankly. Just as I was about to publish a book called How Life Works, my own life stopped working as it should.

Father:

Gordon Cook - Schooner to the Southern Oceans: The Captain James Cook Bicentenary Voyage, 1776-1976

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Same voyage - two very different perspectives. Ten years of a childhood spent on a boat.

Daughter:

Suzanne Heywood - Wavewalker: Breaking Free

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Hope Aurora Ulani doesn't feel the same way about us!

Persuasion - The Radicalization of the American Mind - And how social media crackdowns inadvertently help fuel it. - RIKKI SCHLOTT AND GREG LUKIANOFF - 30.10.2023
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Introduction to Behavioral Genetics by prof Matt McGue and Matt's Journal Club Behavioral Genetics and Individual Differences Psychology) was/is the most interesting thing in my life in the last few years. All the videos and lecture slides are available at: sites.google.com/umn.edu/beha...