Ethan Mollick@emollick
Toxoplasma (š parasite) alters host behavior to go from rats to cats to breed; it makes rats take risks so they are more likely to be eaten by cats.
It might do the same for founders: students with it are 180% more likely start ventures & infected founders have 8% more revenue.
8:41 PM Ā· Oct 24, 2021
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Ethan Mollick@emollick
Um, in case it wasnāt clear, there are lots of other bad behavioral & health affects associated with toxoplasmosis. Donāt dose yourself on cat feces as an entrepreneurship drug. (A sentence I never thought I would type)
4:12 AM Ā· Oct 25, 2021
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Ari Drennenš² š@AriDrennen
Donāt make me tap my favorite chart https://t.co/B6mtJOyfaV
CTV News @CTVNews
Dramatic increase in children and youth seeking gender treatments has some experts alarmed https://t.co/kQs3uA1FOC
4:40 AM Ā· Oct 25, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
99 percent hate speech free
11:05 AM Ā· Oct 25, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This wouldāve been perfect if he couldāve brought himself to just say āchurchesā but everyone has limits. https://t.co/Vz3lgk404i
Josh Mandel @JoshMandelOhio
Shut down government schools and put schools in churches and synagogues.
11:44 AM Ā· Oct 25, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
When he was five my kid opined that the students who do the worst in school should go to the best colleges because they need the most help, and there's probably something to that.
5:53 PM Ā· Oct 25, 2021
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Noah Smith š@Noahpinion
The strongest reason to rethink broad-spectrum racial preferences in college applications, IMO, is that people just lie to game the system. Limiting affirmative action to Black people might solve this; very few White people would try to be a Dolezal, I think.
Chryl Laird @chryllaird
"34Ā percent of white Americans who applied to colleges or universities admit to lying about being a racial minority on their application. The most common lie (by 48Ā percent of those who lied) was to be a Native American."
https://t.co/nBf0nmIxCG
6:25 PM Ā· Oct 25, 2021
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong
just occurred to me that the increasing abandonment of Facebook and the increasing wordiness of Instagram are the same phenomenon. Iām slow.
7:43 PM Ā· Oct 25, 2021
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong
I really wish people would stop posting slide decks on their instagrams though
7:44 PM Ā· Oct 25, 2021
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Noah Smith š@Noahpinion
The divorce rate is way lower than 50% now, down about a third from its peak. Teen drug use has fallen, as has teen pregnancy. Social conservatives won more than people realize.
Carlos That Notices Things @BasQuetzal
How can westerners see their 50% divorce rate and shrinking birth rates and suicide and drug use epidemic and not realize that the social conservatives were in the right?
8:36 PM Ā· Oct 25, 2021
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