Empty Cosmos

●Podcaster
●Realist
●Futurist

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[Empty Cosmos @EmptyCosmos_]

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[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

If you sleep 5 hours per night and die at age 75, you'll still have spent just as many years awake as a person who sleeps 8 hours per night and dies at age 89.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This aged unfortunately well.

[Forbes @Forbes]

Quote of the day. #qotd

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Achieve automaticity on foundational skills to free up mental resources for higher-level creative thinking.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

It is easier than ever to live a comfortable life and harder than ever to live a beautiful one.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Today 82 years ago, the largest amphibious invasion in history began along the coast of Normandy, known as D-Day

[🗾 World in Maps]

[Hereafter @idyllicmusing]

Soil fertility alone explains 34% of the differences in national IQ. Countries on the best soils (Mollisols, Andisols) average 10–15 IQ points higher than those on the wort soils (Oxisols, Ultisols), even before accounting for education or income.
This geographic pattern is visible in real populations. Japan and Taiwan sit on volcanic Andisols and consistently rank among the highest in global intelligence metrics due to their nutrient‑rich, high‑CEC soils. Meanwhile, much of equatorial Africa rests on Oxisols, soils so weathered and nutrient‑stripped that they produce chronically low micronutrient availability.
The further a soil’s pH drifts from 6.5, the more national IQ (MNIQ) declines. If your soil is too acidic (like much of the tropics), zinc and iron become unavailable. If your soil is too alkaline (like the Middle East), micronutrients get locked up too. The correlation between soil fertility and national IQ is r = 0.58, meaning soil alone accounts for 34% of the variation. Explaining 34% of a complex human trait is extremely high.

[The Earl of Nutria @ReverendNutria]

@irthyfour68495 @AryanXatra No… my state had a board that operated forced sterilizations of the mentall ill & criminally feeble-minded until the mid 80s

Was called the Board of Social Protection. I think about it when I see families of 3 generations of tweakers

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘Kung Fu Panda’ was released 18 years ago today.

[Reuters @Reuters]

🎙️ US colleges are closing, students are disappearing, and debt — for students and universities — is soaring. @jonmarcusboston of the @hechingerreport joins this week's episode of the Econ World podcast to explore where US higher education is heading https://t.co/1yEw7mCiuA

[Crazy Kennar @crazy_kennar]

LADIES VS MEN USING A TOWEL😂😂😂😂😂

[Facts On Rwanda @FactsOnRwanda]

RWANDA 🇷🇼🇺🇸 USA

Rwanda says it wants to deepen cooperation with the United States in space exploration and innovation, with discussions underway on potential collaboration with the U.S. space agency, NASA, as part of the growing strategic partnership between the two countries. #FactsOnRwanda

[Empty Cosmos @EmptyCosmos_]

@jak3 @TresyHQ @CNN Galileo Galilei

[by @beyoumf]

Instagram: where average people pretend to be millionaires.

Twitter: where millionaires pretend to be average people.

[Adesewa @t_Duches]

Men are so private online. A guy could be moving to another country or having his first child, and he’d still only post a random football score on his story.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

The "YKK" on your zipper stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha, the Japanese company that makes over half the world’s zippers.

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

Think of yourself as an LLM.

Every social interaction, every meeting, burns your tokens.

Unless someone is a paid subscriber to your attention, you are under no obligation to answer low-quality prompts.

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

The biggest debate in modern football... who's the GOAT: Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi? 🤔

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Australian authorities seize over 100,000 illegal exotic cockroaches worth roughly $143,000 — some as large as human hand.