"We are endlessly cooperative. We say yes seven times more often than we say no. Six times more often than we just ignore them altogether." — The Sydney Morning Herald interviews PI Nick Enfield (and his kids) about our study https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/humans-ask-for-help-every-couple-of-minutes-and-we-mainly-say-yes-20230419-p5d1n9.html?btis=
(Note that the headline's 'every couple minutes' is relative to the hours of social encounters we recorded, not all waking hours or sth)
paper is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-30580-5
De W van wakker blijven, Wordle spelen.
Wordle 643 2/6
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I came to Rome, and visited the Vatican, and climbed ~320 steps, and took many photos.
But my favourite is this cranky-looking seagull.
This is a really interesting thread about a number of cis men--who had fathered children, had the expected chromosomes, etc.--who were discovered to have uteruses during medical treatment for various issues. Biology sure is more complicated than a lot of people tend to think.
In 2014, a 70 year old cis man who had fathered four children went to hospital in Kashmir with an inguinal hernia. Everything about him and his life had so far been ordinary - except that the hernia turned out to be his uterus with an ovarian tube and broad ligament.
Love to see how mad the Onion is here. More folks should be this mad about this.
If you want a really solid critique, it's actually here too. They put their *all* into this piece and while it's sarcastic as usual, it really does cover *so many* aspects of how horrible the current trend of "news" in this space has been.
Go read it:
https://www.theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997
The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that our coverage will influence not only how people think, but also how they act. This responsibility is at the core of an…