Reading demands introspection, sports physical discipline and stamina, and creativity imagination, but the digital hamster wheel that is gaming requires almost none of these, instead offering cheap algorithmic fantasies and dopamine hits, sucking the gamer into endless loops of

I'll note that Emily Willoughby and James Lee (two of the study's authors) have both faced threats of cancellation from the left over the years because of their research into the heritability of psychological traits. They're not activist scientists with an axe to grind.

About 70% of espionage-related arrests in the US over the past decade have involved Chinese nationals or US citizens of Chinese ancestry. The FBI opens a new China-related counterintelligence case roughly every 12 hours.

File under: Things For Which We Don't Need A Study Study: "Women with tattoos reported greater willingness to engage in uncommitted sexual relations, as well as higher endorsement of... sensation-seeking, relative to non-tattooed women." link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Control.

Apparently, higher rates of obesity and diabetes, and poor dietary choices play no role.

It's also based on data drawn mostly out of thin air.

Question for people who have never owned an electric vehicle: Are you more likely or less likely to buy an electric vehicle now than you were two or three years ago?

Here are more terms I'd love to never see again: Lived experience... Black Bodies... justice system involved... settler colonialism... cisheteropatriarchy... ways of knowing... erasure... queerness... front hole... intersectional... positionality... marginalized... decolonize...

Feel free to use this in the future in your online exchanges.

The two types of people they want the most: People like themselves (typically upper middle-class) and academically non-threatening black mascots. What they don't want: East Asian drones, super-smart heartland rubes, and conservatives.