New study providing some #evidence that 'obvious' #solutions might not always be the answer.

(I.e., according to this #study, there is no evidence that restrictive #school #policies are associated with overall #phone and social media use or better #mental #wellbeing in #adolescents).

See full #Lancet study here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(25)00003-1/fulltext

#socialmedia #schools #education #research #mentalwellbeing #health #mentalhealth #studies #empiricaldata #empiricalresearch #empiricalstudy #empiricalstudies

#WorldDevelopment #population #industrialOutput #FoodProduction #NonRenewableResources #pollution #LimitedResources #LimitsToGrowth #degrowth #overshoot #collapse #researcharticle #EmpiricalData #simulation #learning

"Recalibration of limits to growth: An update of the World3 model"

You can see on the results section that the food production is estimated to peak around 2024.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jiec.13442

Clancey et al. study how the interactions between selection, phenotype-dependent dispersal, and mate preference drive microgeographic divergence. They pair models with empirical data using the island scrub-jay. Now available for free ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/727723

#selection #mate #matePreference #microgeographic #divergence #empiricalData #scrubJay

Around 50k people took their own live in #USA in the last year. #FaceFacts #EmpiricalData #WakeUp
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Steadily sinking in Skeptical Science "most read" stats for our collection of rebuttals: "It's not happening." Perhaps because too-rapid climate change is becoming an increasingly obvious financial burden? Prof. Benjamin Keys of the Wharton School discusses one aspect of that: insurance premiums going through the roof. #ClimateChangeEconomics https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/opinion/climate-change-homeowners-insurance-housing-market.html?unlocked_article_code=9jxIIhaF8WevasGJT8tPVSa47600Wd6ffC6L33w_LPQfl8hUUz1g1qTXfzbGTArE4dDoeVJ_ZX2hwXPUsh3s_SCePsruVLGCaYK6NJYuRch0EP4csNiW4_OhKR3dnImBMjgy1mxm1pmDPsLyW-pwUmkMXBqmHYF0g6IHzAeEksom7Xp928MxGWDQ2ISjh_O2h6EwSDeK79OSt7cJNy1DGBB2lyeViOxnQGYjwtaTG1x7KMhwjIn_b_kVEMhScWq9PhGr9ASl77lpYhZAcTmlGDkifHnvR35LBPEXDdlRl0LxtXg6nk30u1r7IFKMa6fi-hCKUih7rNrSsrznqCbNUXNwc7334ccNTrG4SbYbAF9a-r_HSLFSh4H_YrQ&smid=url-share

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