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Here are some of this week's Human Nature short takes on the news. To get them in real time, subscribe to the HN Twitter feed.
1. Is youth a kind of wealth? Should you pay more for health insurance so old folks can pay less, in the name of equality?
2. Runaway Toyotas don't help us get comfortable with automated cars. Expect more such oops stories as we delegate driving.
3. Now that we can test for genetic susceptibility to harm from vices , we'll use this to find out what we can get away with.
4. Cell phones as microscopes: Another step in the relentless consolidation of gadgets to 1 handheld ().
5. Fascinating challenge to Judaism as inherited trait: Is racial self-definition of who's a Jew religious discrimination?
6. US kids too fat/unfit for military? Bah. More jobs are automated or remotely operated, e.g. drones ().
7. Fruit juice is as bad as soda: Just as I feared. "Natural" isn't a sure guide to morality—or to healthy eating.
8. War against the machines, traffic-cam version: Humans will win these elections ... till machines get the right to vote.
9. Experts using "panda viagra, panda porn and pelvic-thrust exercises" to make pandas mate. Pathetic. Let this species die.
10. Using pot munchies to sell sushi: Commercial integration will legitimate marijuana more effectively than politics can.
11. Uproar over doctors group letting Coke fund its education site: Are soda makers heading toward tobacco's pariah status?
12. The fierce urgency of now can blind you: Gay marriage backers should delay such showdowns till old folks have died off.
13. Dog-scent lineups: Like polygraphs (), a device to make you think you've been caught and confess.
14. Muslim creationism more flexible than Christian version: More evidence that creationism is mostly attitude, not theory.
15. Reframing of mental disorders from either/or to spectra: Good move. The brain is hugely complex with lots of gray area.
16. Sleeping while your copilot minds the instruments is banned by airlines "but is allowed on military planes." Why?
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Here are some of this week's Human Nature short takes on the news. To get them in real time, subscribe to the HN Twitter feed.
1. "Abortion addict" http://bit.ly/VRJHr says she "abused her rights." Bingo: Abuse doesn't invalidate rights, and rights don't validate abuse.
2. IEDs spreading across south Asia & Africa: http://bit.ly/vSb9l Huge problem for the future. See http://bit.ly/2beWk7 and http://bit.ly/7ABuJ
3. GPS RIP: http://bit.ly/NF0U0 The reduction of gizmos to smartphone apps continues. Better figure out how to sell your hardware as software.
4. Using gene therapy ... to repair somebody's organs ... to give to somebody else. http://bit.ly/2k8uZ8 Another step in human parts technology
5. Agassi admits he used meth and lied after being caught: http://bit.ly/3NnF1B Remind me why we test athletes for drugs that don't help them?
6. Dad's absence alters brain growth in rodents: http://bit.ly/Q2d1N Lesson: Brain & environment aren't alternative explanations for behavior.
7. No more simulated sex while dancing: http://bit.ly/yp8as Regulation hasn't been this interesting since Sonny Bono "cracked down" on bikinis.
8. Baby Einstein? Not: http://bit.ly/KoOL6 Here's a tip: Your kid does not need more IQ. Just give her the mental health to use the IQ she has.
9. Requiring RX for cold meds? To stop meth production? (http://bit.ly/bLHgB) Good luck putting the home chemistry genie back in the bottle.
10. "Screaming is the new spanking," http://bit.ly/33SsYl. Yes, and representative democracy with executive power is the new fascism. Please.
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