This Nature article shows that most Nobel Prize winners are part of one big, incestuous academic network. Out of 736 Nobel Prize winners in science and economics, 702 are "part of the same academic family." Only 32 researchers out of this network have won the Nobel Prize.

In the era of the late sixties and early seventies, it was made socially unacceptable to have any expectations of women at all. No roles, no duties, no responsibilities, no societal influence, only an infinity of choice. No feedback. If and when men express no expectations

Instructing young people that marriage is for “later” has been disastrous for a number of reasons but one of the primary reasons is that as you age you become less flexible. Whether this is good or bad in aggregate is a matter of taste but in the realm of dating we can call it

in case u need to lose a boner fast (Grok Imagined) 😂

I found this section especially chilling:

5% of deaths in Canada are now euthanasia 😳

Christian Heiens 🏛 Squad

Someone has created a "Nick, 30" simulator, to capture the experience of the downtrodden productive class in the UK. Styling it like the UK government website is a nice touch.

"the market hires highly-paid people if they’re the best option it finds at that price." Indian managers are illegally taking kickbacks to hire other Indians, or are engaging in ethnic nepotism. More evidence will emerge over time.

🇨🇳 A Maine Coon owner in China built his cat his very own subway system. The optical effects are funny.

gm, look at this thing I found

🧵 It would be a miracle if the Russia-Ukraine war actually stops - the Russia’s War Dividends I have already argued that Putin cannot end this war, even if he wanted to. What appears to the outside world as a bloody quagmire has, within Russia, become a roaring engine of

Chinese guy puts up a video noticing a thing or two.

Not all white women but always white women😭

Fuckin Christ

In the summer, cicadas will fly into trees, drink tons of tree sap and spray out the excess, often mistaken for "summer rain" 😭

Men are the team-building sex. In team sports, you cooperate to compete. Women are 4.2 times more likely to be socially excluded and 13.69 times more likely to be attacked by their own teammates in college sports than men. "Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."

we are in end game.

🇨🇳🇹🇭 17-year-old girl sold her boyfriend into slavery for $14,000 and went on vacation to Thailand. A 19-year-old boy in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, China, was sold to the Triumph Telecom Fraud Park in Myanmar for RMB 100,000 ($14,000) by his 17-year-old cohabiting girlfriend

1/ Meet Gaurav Trivedi, an Indian scammer who impersonates Microsoft support and then rips off innocent vulnerable people. He tried to scam me......but instead of paying him money, I hacked into his laptop and turned on his live webcam feed.