Saturday, January 22, 2022

How did birds like penguins evolve into some of the world’s best swimmers?

MOTES AND BEAMS:  Something in Your Eyes May Reveal if You’re at Risk of Early Death, Study Shows.“For instance, if the algorithm predicted a person’s retina was a year older than their actual age, their risk of death from any cause in the next 11 years went up by 2 percent. At the same time, their risk of death from a cause other than cardiovascular disease or cancer went up by 3 percent. The findings are purely observational, which means we still don’t know what is driving this relationship at a biological level.”

Tamara Rojo, Now Headed To San Francisco, Genuinely Transformed English National Ballet

To put it succinctly, she's responsible for "turning ENB from a respected but unexciting touring company into a news-making organisation." - The Guardian

Center for Data Innovation: “Bastian Herre, a researcher at the U.K.-based nonprofit Our World in Data, has released a dataset of the economic ideologies of political leaders. The dataset lists the political leaders of 182 countries every year from 1945 to 2020 and classifies their economic ideology as leftist, centrist, rightist, or non-ideological. According to the dataset, leaders of democratic countries are more likely to have either leftist or rightist ideologies, whereas dictators are more likely to hold the full range of economic ideologies.”  Get the data




WHAT ARE THE DEEP SEVENS UP TO?  Earth’s interior is cooling faster than expected.