Did you know parts of my book have been censored in China?
The CCP doesn't want people know the truth of a famine that killed 15-55 MILLION people.
So when I wrote to a school board about book bans, I tried to tell what happens when people rewrite history. https://teamtrash.substack.com/p/banning-books-and-rewriting-the-world
In the wild, baboons do NOT recognize themselves in a mirror.
This could mean that baboons, and primates...are not actually self-aware (according to the mirror test), unless they've been trained by people https://www.sciencenews.org/article/wild-baboons-mirror-recognize-test
Very well done obituary for Lyudmila Trut in today's Wall Street Journal.
"We’re about to be deluged with the most brazen and dangerous lies of our lifetimes."
Laura Helmuth has been flying free from SciAm for < 1 week and publishes a BANGER showing how RFK Jr. got where he is and why he's VERY dangerous. https://slate.com/_pages/cm3qctm2m0000lpkye5w6cw4v.html
Interesting results: people are more likely to believe fake news from a stranger than a from good friend.
This finding would be explained if people intuitively apply the three questions we suggest in our book to assess any claim:
1. Who is telling me this?
2. How do they know it?
3. What are they trying to sell me?
You know what your friends don't have a way of knowing (and often, what they're selling you). With a stranger, these are harder questions to answer.
We need to talk about F&%KING Kevin...the squirrel in my yard.
"I hate my Kevins because they are animals in a place I think of as mine. They are doing something I don’t want. They are taking something that I value.
For a word that is supposed to describe an animal, “pest” has a lot of “I” in it."
https://www.bbg.org/article/understanding_the_pests_in_your_garden
Bethany Brookshire
Lee Dugatkin
Carl T. Bergstrom
Steve Silberman