Hello,
Here's what I have published on the blog:
Here's the best of what I have published on Medium (free to access from this email):
Here's the interesting stuff I have learned:
Friendly reminder that birds are dinosaurs that survived the impact of the asteroid.
People who seem frustrated online are frustrated because of their personal lives, not because of what they read online.
Oral contraceptives may be driving mental health problems among teenage girls.
Science has now confirmed that humor is attractive (who would have thought hahaha).
This study looked at the impact that narcissistic parents had on their children and highlighted that positive education techniques (encouragement) have a more positive impact than negative techniques (punishment). Read this book to fix the consequences of bad parenting.
A study highlighted that growing up with several caretakers is as important as the mother-child bond. You do need a village to raise a child.
Loneliness can blur the distinction between real friends and fictional characters. In the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, the viewer takes the place of a hypothetical sixth friend…
A paper found out that content producers produce more content when they receive attention for it. Attention behaves therefore a little bit like money does.
70% of rich families lose their wealth by the second generation and 90% lose it by the third. This confirms what Nassim Taleb said a long time ago: socio-economic inequalities are dynamic, not fixed.
People with a victim mentality are more likely to become social justice warriors.
Getting an opinion from several doctors instead of just one improves the accuracy of the diagnostic from 46% to 76%.
Interesting summary of all trends of 2023 (quiet quitting, etc).
France has spent British immigration money on…vacuum cleaners and microwave ovens.
Here are the next towers and hotels that will be built in Dubai in the next years.
The biggest empires in history, how big they were, and when they peaked. Source.
As I want to keep the quality standards of this newsletter high, I will move it (back) to a monthly schedule from December onward.
See you in two weeks!
Aure :)