Interesting Links for 23-03-2023
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andrewducker- 1. Here's the full analysis of newly uncovered genetic data on COVID's origins
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- 2. How fast does spring travel? About 2mph
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- 3. GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question
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- 4. Fungus! Attacks! America!
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- 5. One of history's most famous psychological experiments was probably fake (Sending well people into psychiatric hospitals)
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- 6. Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic
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- 7. Ethical AI art generation? Adobe Firefly may be the answer
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- 8. Comparing the cost of living in the UK and Germany
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- 9. Life hacks from the 90s
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- 10. Scientists can now separate sperm based on whether they carry X or Y chromosomes with 80% accuracy
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- 11. Female Afghan judge living in fear of Taliban denied sanctuary in Britain
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Date: 2023-03-23 04:36 pm (UTC)And I think we've seen some examples in polygamous societies in the past where wealth imbalances were so pronounced that, even though the ratio of men to women was not hugely skewed the effect on poorer and lower status men was noticable because the wealthy men were involved in relationships with several women at once. The impact was some destabilisation of the polity.