Favorite Rejects 2021-10-25

Ethan Mollick @emollick

Toxoplasma (🐈 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.

Ethan Mollick @emollick

Um, in case it wasn’t clear, there are lots of other bad behavioral & health affects associated with toxoplasmosis. Don’t dose yourself on cat feces as an entrepreneurship drug. (A sentence I never thought I would type)

Ari Drennen🌲 🏔 @AriDrennen

Don’t 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

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

99 percent hate speech free

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This would’ve been perfect if he could’ve brought himself to just say “churches” but everyone has limits. https://t.co/Vz3lgk404i

Josh Mandel @JoshMandelOhio

Shut down government schools and put schools in churches and synagogues.

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.

Noah Smith 🐇 @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

"34 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 48 percent of those who lied) was to be a Native American." https://t.co/nBf0nmIxCG

sarah jeong @sarahjeong

just occurred to me that the increasing abandonment of Facebook and the increasing wordiness of Instagram are the same phenomenon. I’m slow.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong

I really wish people would stop posting slide decks on their instagrams though

Noah Smith 🐇 @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?