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“SOMETIMES, the crocodile biting your leg isn't the one that eats you. Default is on everyone's mind and deflation keeps economists turning restlessly until dawn. But the risk of inflation should not be ignored while we're nationalising and bailing out. source...

"Talking Hands" takes readers to a place like nowhere else on earth: the village of Al-Sayyid, a remote Bedouin community in Israel where everyone "speaks” sign language. There, scientists are discovering the essential ingredients of all human language - and more...

support for “cultural intelligence hypothesis": equivalence in technical skills between apes - chimpanzees and orangutans - and two-year-old human children, but inferior social skills in the apes.

Satoshi Kanazawa is now accused of reviving the politics of eugenics by publishing the research which concludes that low IQ levels, rather than poverty and disease, are the reason why life expectancy is low and infant mortality high

the human mind does not automatically detect when a cause has an unconstraining arrow to its effect. Worse, thanks to hindsight bias, it may feel like the cause constrains the effect, when it was merely fitted to the effect. Interestingly, more...

Watson is a dog, SJ Gould to the rescue