@davidmsolomon@GoldmanSachs 6/ Given AI fears and political uncertainty, having leaders who combine experience with groundedness is a gift. Solomon, like Gurley, models something increasingly rare: wisdom without arrogance.
Reading this, I’m reminded of @nntaleb’s reflection in #Antifragile on the Greek Orthodox fasting calendar, which suggests that alongside diet type, periodic fasting rhythms might be an additional variable shaping long-term health.
The link between diet and cancer types in 1.8 million people, 9 prospective cohorts
Media is reporting it as vegetarians have lower risk of 5 cancers, but it's more nuanced than that.
media example
https://t.co/y071legOEa
paper https://t.co/Fv1nqlPtlo
Fascinating.
Considering shared evolutionary history and what is already known about animal communication, it makes sense that some foundations of language run much deeper in our cross-species lineage than once thought.
In linguistics studies across cultures, humans have been shown to associate certain nonwords with shapes; the iconic example is “bouba,” which associates with a round shape, and “kiki,” which sounds spiky.
In a new Science study, researchers report that the bouba-kiki effect is also exhibited by newly hatched chickens.
The authors propose that such sound-shape correspondences may belong to a set of innate cross-modal associations that are shared across species, rather than being a speech-related phenomenon that is distinctive to humans.
📄: https://t.co/JC6GvitgEu
#SciencePerspective: https://t.co/csaa2BiTG5
A leader meeting the moment:
PM Carney’s #Davos address is a clear-eyed, principled & pragmatic framework for how middle powers can navigate the decline of the old order.
Wise, urgent, and concrete. Read it in full. via @yarotrof
https://t.co/a2gBERK7kh
@elidourado@MarathonFusion We’re in an era where it’s hard to differentiate a hoax joke from research that’s actually receiving funding and could show results.
I generally agree with the distinguished economic historian Barry Eichengreen. But I think he is a bit too pessimistic here -- the euro has its limits, but I suspect it would work reasonably well as a vehicle currency that lubricates global trade and finance
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“Even among the post-industrial towns of northern England, Rochdale, the setting for the ugliest by-election in memory Thursday, has a haunted quality. The town hall is a Gothic palace that looks as if it could, if asked, drip blood.”
@TanyaGold1’s article in Politico about George Galloway’s return to parliament - and the conditions of his Rochdale constituency- is a vivid, evocative read as you can see from the opening paragraph:
https://t.co/wxXPWu3mwg