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Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller
In fact, we are all so busy judging our own bodies that there is little energy left over to judge other people’s.
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Mariana Oliveira added 3mo ago
Parents are two and a half times more likely to ask “Is my son gifted?” than “Is my daughter gifted?”
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Mariana Oliveira added 3mo ago
It is probably nice for many people—particularly those who aren’t having much sex —to know the whole world isn’t fornicating like rabbits.
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Mariana Oliveira added 3mo ago
Similarly, you need a lot of observations in a dataset in order to be able to zoom in with clarity on one small subset of that data—for
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growing up near big ideas is better than growing up with a big backyard.
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One somewhat random topic I recently explored: how does pregnancy play out in different countries around the world? I examined Google searches by pregnant women. The first thing I found was a striking similarity in the physical symptoms about which women complain.
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Mariana Oliveira added 3mo ago
Preliminary evidence suggests that no part of the world has stumbled upon a diet or environment that drastically changes the physical experience of pregnancy.
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Mariana Oliveira added 3mo ago
Searches expressing thoughts, rather than looking for information, my research has found, are only made by a small sample of everyone for whom that thought comes to mind.
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Mariana Oliveira added 3mo ago
Google data also suggests a reason people may be avoiding sex so frequently: enormous anxiety, with much of it misplaced.
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