“There was no evidence of [hiring] discrimination against women in male-dominated professions or in mixed-gender professions, but the researchers did find evidence of discrimination against men in female-dominated professions.” [Sweden] psypost.org/2021/05/swedis…

Jeg har vært så heldig å få være gjest i Ringpermen rett på video igjen. Denne gangen om Back to the future 2. Mye gøy om 80-tallets prognoser for en fremtid som allerede nå er fortid. open.spotify.com/episode/3HnlxR…

"Get Back" was okay, I really wish they had interviewed some of today's top artists for the film. Would have liked to see Dave Grohl say that there wouldn't have been Nirvana or the Foo Fighters without the Beatles, to put the band in historical context

EO Wilson was perhaps the 1st target of academic "cancel culture": the NYRB "Against Sociobiology" manifesto introduced the art of the politicized smear based on loose reading & guilt by association, leading to calls for silencing (see "Bring noisemakers" on this 80s poster)

Generasjonene som kommer etter oss kommer aldri til å forstå hvordan vi lærte oss å spille uten de små LED-lysene. #smartgitar #fremtidenerher

This ITV News report from November 22, 1988 unveiled an early BT mockup design for "the phone of the future" or what we'd now call a smartphone. There aren't apparently other evidences of the same mockup on the Internet [source: buff.ly/3h7xdYa] x.com/Rainmaker1973e…

Lukas Safranov, son of the famous artist Nikas Safranov, chained himself to a McDonald’s in Moscow saying “they fed us this food for 30 years (...) and now they are leaving us. The sanctions are depriving me of the food that I have eaten all my life”.

In the 1970s & 80s, anthropologists working in small-scale, non-industrial societies fastidiously noted down what people were doing throughout the day. I’ve been exploring the data & am struck by one of the most popular activities: doing nothing. [thread]

Thread: “Early cities in the Dawn of Everything: Shoddy scholarship in support of pedestrian conclusions.” Paper to appear soon in a special issue of Cliodynamics. This is a paper, not a book review. I’ll mainly use a bunch of quotes from my paper. #DawnOfEverything 1/13

In this clip taken from Tomorrow's World, originally broadcast December, 28 1966, pupils from Marlborough college, Roedean and Chippenham schools predict what life will be like for them in the year 2000 [full video, BBC Archive: buff.ly/3y6PazW]

This data by Adam Mastroianni is actually kind of worrying. Every field of popular art from 🎶 to 🕹 to 🎥 to 📚 has, quite quickly, become dominated by just a few repeated francises with few originals. The article speculates as to why, but it is unclear. experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/pop-culture-…

Study finds early exposure to testosterone predicts gender-role behaviors in boys "The findings are in line with experimental animal studies, which have found that exposure to androgens masculinizes the brain and behavior." psypost.org/2022/06/study-…

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Despite what many believe, the big companies of today are no more dominant in their markets than the giant companies of the past, in the US & globally. But they contribute much less to global employment, productivity, & growth than previous leading firms. nber.org/system/files/w…

Scientific American may be American, but is it scientific? Jerry Coyne writes, "Once again, Scientific American distorts biology, and now history, to buttress its ideology." whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/08/29/onc…

"Spesialenheten for henleggelse av politisaker" (via FairAndBalanced) vg.no/nyheter/i/q11z…

Nå som «Våre Beste År» er i gang på NRK, håper jeg virkelig at denne perla av ei bok (som serien er basert på) får en ny vår. Rett og slett utrolig fornøyelig lesning.

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Et perspektiv som gjorde meg både såret og munter. 😂