Most individuals with Down syndrome have mild (IQ: 50–69) or moderate (IQ: 35–50) intellectual disability with some cases having severe (IQ: 20–35) difficulties. Those with mosaic Down syndrome typically have IQ scores 10–30 points higher than that. As they age, the gap tends to widen between people with Down syndrome and their same-age peers.
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Not to mention the horror that they all have dementia symptoms by the age of 40.
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“Interestingly, the drug’s effects were strongest in people who were naturally high in empathy, suggesting that serotonin could enhance people’s concern for others by making the prospect of harming them feel worse.”
Drugging people towards left-wing politics FTW!
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Bill Ackmann hoisted with his own petard?
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In a December social-media post announcing the closing of Pursuit, a 10-year-old wine bar and restaurant, owner Adam Kelinsky said doing business in the city “is no longer sustainable.” Aaron McGovern and Arturas Vorobjovas shuttered both Washington locations of their seafood restaurant Brine in November, saying that the combined effects of the pandemic, the sputtering economy and “the spike in violent crime” had made it “impossible to survive.” Others focus on the second-order consequences of crime: With homicides in Washington up 35% in 2023 and car thefts up 82%, restaurant operators report that people are choosing to eat elsewhere.
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“Studies show”. That clinches the argument. No rebuttal allowed. There studies are surely replicable, no?
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Some poor writing, but…
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I think one should take a closer look at those McKinsey studies - they cite them after all!
https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/featured%20insights/diversity%20and%20inclusion/diversity%20wins%20how%20inclusion%20matters/diversity-wins-how-inclusion-matters-vf.pdf
Here’s the first author:
Prior to joining McKinsey, Sundiatu worked with a leading Swiss pharmaceuticals company as a senior project manager in drug development, and with Geneva University Hospital as a clinical research coordinator.
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I’m afraid I have a trust problem with “studies” which happen to show politically-correct (especially social) results. This is the case a fortiori when those who pay for such studies are in alliance (explicit or otherwise) with the newly-improved, slick globalist fascism - which has completely captured and corrupted political elites, big corps, big media, and NGO’s. I think one must be very skeptical of such sociological/political “studies”.
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I consider “stakeholder” to be one of those “anti-shibboleth” words that identify those who use it as idiots or enemies, like “holistic” (or even better, “wholistic”), “undocumented”, “fair share”, and “reproductive rights”.
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There’s the whole science of framing:
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On the other hand, the psychological research on “priming” has become a poster child for the replication crisis. in the soft sciences.
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Betavolt successfully develops atomic energy battery for civilian use
Beijing Betavolt New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. announced on January 8 that it has successfully developed a miniature atomic energy battery. This product combines nickel-63 nuclear isotope decay technology and China’s first diamond semiconductor (4th generation semiconductor) module to successfully realize the miniaturization of atomic energy batteries, modularization and low cost, starting the process of civilian use. This marks that China has achieved disruptive innovation in the two high-tech fields of atomic energy batteries and fourth-generation diamond semiconductors at the same time, putting it “far ahead” of European and American scientific research institutions and enterprises.
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Betavoltaic nuclear batteries develop a completely different technological approach, generating electric current through the semiconductor transition of beta particles (electrons) emitted by the radioactive source nickel-63 . To do this, Betavolt’s team of scientists developed a unique single-crystal diamond semiconductor that is just 10 microns thick, placing a 2-micron-thick nickel-63 sheet between two diamond semiconductor converters. The decay energy of the radioactive source is converted into an electrical current, forming an independent unit. Nuclear batteries are modular and can be composed of dozens or hundreds of independent unit modules and can be used in series and parallel, so battery products of different sizes and capacities can be manufactured.
Zhang Wei, chairman and CEO of Betavolt, said that the first product the company will launch its BV100, which is the world’s first nuclear battery to be mass-produced. The power is 100 microwatts, the voltage is 3 V, and the volume is 15 X 15 X 5 Cubic millimeters, smaller than a coin. Nuclear batteries generate electricity every minute, 8.64 joules per day, and 3153 joules per year. Multiple such batteries can be used in series and parallel. The company plans to launch a 1-watt battery in 2025. If policies permit, atomic energy batteries can allow a mobile phone to never be charged, and drones that can only fly for 15 minutes can fly continuously.
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Zhang Wei said that the core of Betavolt atomic energy battery is the fourth generation diamond semiconductor, which is the ultimate semiconductor material well known in the industry and another high ground in the global semiconductor field technology competition. Betavolt is currently the only company in the world that can dope large-size diamond semiconductor materials. High-efficiency diamond converters are the key to manufacturing nuclear batteries. Betavolt is not only a new energy company, but also a fourth-generation semiconductor and ultra-long carbon nanotube new material company. Nuclear batteries, diamond semiconductors and supercapacitors are the three major technologies and materials that are linked and integrated to form Betavolt’s core technology and innovation capabilities.
Related, at Fourmilab: “From 1963: Nuclear Batteries Now!”. Patience pays.
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- 2006: “Burden of Proof”
- 2023: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Math 55”
Now here you have the fate,
of teaching maths at Hah-vahd.
Once rigour has been lost,
it cannot be re-cah-vahd.
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One wonders when rich Chinese parents are going to stop paying outrageous sums of money to send their kids to Harvard? When rigor is lost, reputation follows.
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Hmm… interesting choice of cover. Is this related to why “cat” videos are the most popular search online?
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