IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are influenced by education

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691825003853

#HackerNews #IQdifferences #identicaltwins #education #research #science #news

Britain’s Oldest Identical Twin Kathleen Whitehead Dies at 105

Kathleen Whitehead, Britain’s oldest identical twin, has passed away at the age of 105, three years after the death of her sister Dorothy Sivyer. The two sisters, who were born on August 28, 1920, were widely known as 'the Twinnies.' They attributed their long lives to a balanced lifestyle that comb... [More info]

A funny story:
My husband is an identical twin. A couple of years ago, his brother had a bad stroke and could barely walk or speak. We came to visit, and were all masked up when we walked in. But my husband had taken off his mask at one point, and had forgotten to put it back on when he left the patient room to ask a question at the nursing station.

The nurses at that station did a double-take, and one looked genuinely shocked. She began to ask how he was able to do that, when I realized the source of their confusion and shock, and I loudly interjected, "They're identical twins. This is his brother."

The nurses joined my husband and I in a long laugh.

[At the time of his stroke, my brother-in-law did not have his beard and was about the same weight as my husband, which is why the nurses were confused. And yes, my BIL is doing much better now.]

#HospitalStories #Twins #IdenticalTwins #TwinStories #Anecdote

 
#Thought #Experiment: What-if multiple stars are the same #star in different #times?

Disregarding our familiar #paradoxes for a moment, if Time Travel is possible, then mightn't it occur in #Nature? And if-then, how could one know? What evidence should we be looking for? Something duplicated: #stars, #galaxies, #quanta, #identicaltwins, #groundhogday, #Castor & #Pollux. 🌠🌠

🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_(star)
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollux_(star)

#Time #Timelessness #TimeTravel #Kronodon

"There was something different about this criminal, almost superhuman. He was known to pull off two robberies within a half-hour of each other, in towns that were more than a dozen miles apart.”

Read an excerpt of the new Atavist Magazine story by Andrew Dubbins, about a pair of bank robbers who happened to be identical twins: https://longreads.com/2025/01/09/twin-bandits-robbers-atavist-magazine/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Nonfiction #TrueCrime #Robbers #Twins #IdenticalTwins

1987

Two men in suits, one on each side of a central figure, all looking at mirrors with the same face reflected.
Tags: mirrors, reflections, suits, faces, identical twins, double image

https://nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/09-September1987-Page-125.png

#photography #illustration #madman #nocontext #sfw #mirrors #reflections #suits #faces #identicaltwins #doubleimage