MBW - 2/18/2022
Hi guys! Happy Friday to you all.
Here’s today digest:
As you may know there has been some controversy about Joe Rogan recently. They accused him of misinformation regarding Covid and racism. Seems like he made it unscathed, but in his ‘apology’ he vowed to try to talk to both sides when it comes to sensitive topics. So in this regard he invited two scientist to speak about climate change. They both agree that the climate is changing, so no arguing there, but the difference is how fast and how alarmed should people be. These are long format interviews but so is the weekend ahead. There you go.
Very Alarmed:
Not so alarmed:
Nuclear fusion has been hailed as the holy grail of clean abundant energy and it seems like a huge milestone has been recently achieve. Look at the video below:
Furthermore, the Google owned artificial intelligence company, DeepMind, published a paper where they claim to have developed the first deep reinforcement learning system that can keep nuclear fusion plasma stable inside its tokamaks, opening new avenues to advance nuclear fusion research.
This is a big deal. Imagine quasi free energy for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, desalinating ocean water, terraforming deserts.
I have been arguing with my wife recently on how to deal with the constant efforts of our kids to try to break the rules. I was glad to find out that there is a paper which supports my argument in this debate. Controlling for IQ, parent socioeconomic status, and educational attainment, children who score higher on rule breaking and defiance of authority are more likely to attain higher incomes as adults.
Here’s a nice summary from Reddit on how academic publishing works:
And lastly, here’s a bunch of random stuff I found browsing around:
Here is how 1 million dead mosquitos look like.
This is a very serious question tbh.
The context here is that in many US states and Western European countries during the pandemic if you are fully jabbed you can dine inside restaurants, but the trick is that when you enter or move around you have to be masked, but while you are sitting you can take the mask off.
Beware out there ladies.
That was it for today. Have a great weekend guys.