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The decline of violence (and especially the weekend pub brawl) marches on in England and Wales

Why and how political ideas matter by Lionel Page open.substack.com/pub/lionelpage…

academics rn

Wow! Check out this cool working paper. "War Causes Religiosity" The authors scraped web images of hundreds of thousands of gravestones of deceased Americans. They found that people who were randomly drafted into war are at least 20% more likely to have religious gravestones.

Why do we adopt political ideologies—the root of all polarization? To cynics, they are rationalizations justifying the (material) interests of our social groups; to idealists, powerful ideas shaping how we think and act. Can Lionel Page reconcile them? buff.ly/QaqICkE

Are #smartphones and #socialmedia harming a generation? This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we surveyed over 120 experts on the topic to see where there was genuine consensus (or not), like experts have previous done for climate change. 92–97% of experts

Good news of the day: Murder rates are plummeting across the country

Educational institutions selling mass learning at a high price are standing on the cliffs of a technological revolution, and they hardly seem ready for it.

Could prompt some thinking usually associated with conservatism

Confidence is key! Alice Soldà Lionel Page

👊🏻 Lionel spot on. I've seen organizations turn down great ideas... Because their own bonus would have been risked.

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times LESS accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

Three reasons I think rational persuasion is generally underrated:

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absurd proposition, patently false

20th-century anthropologists called romantic love a Western invention – our new paper, with data from 9 non-WEIRD societies (N = 937), finds high levels of passion, intimacy & commitment everywhere, adding evidence for the universality of love hypothesis. Link to the pdf below!

I learn new things every day! There are European cities that have been continuously inhabited for 7000-8000 years!

Once again, a great article by Lionel Page. Looking forward to the second part