The global LGBT community would have the 4th-largest GDP in the world if it were a country.

How LGBT Customers Became the Most Undervalued Economy in the World

Chinese criminal gangs spreading African swine fever to force farmers to sell pigs cheaply so they can profit Report by state media says some offenders are leaving infected feed in sties and are even using drones to spread contamination

Chinese criminal gangs spreading African swine fever to force farmers to sell pigs cheaply so they can profit | South China Morning Post

The natives know, however, that white people “will sit, will press mouth against mouth–they are pleased with it.” But they regard it as a rather insipid and silly form of amusement

Romantic or disgusting? Passionate kissing is not a human universal | Human Relations Area Files

I believe that creators need to amass only 100 True Fans—not 1,000—paying them $1,000 a year, not $100. Today, creators can effectively make more money off fewer fans.

1,000 True Fans? Try 100

" 99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps.Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic.

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“I’m excited and terrified of the scale some of these people are building to, they’re getting to the level where they’re going to break the internet,”

Shopify, the e-commerce company that’s coming for Amazon - Vox

farmers throughout America's heartland have started hacking their equipment with firmware that's cracked in Eastern Europe and traded on invite-only, paid online forums.

Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware - VICE

China now drinks more Budweiser than the US

China now drinks more Budweiser than the US

“I love rags!” Second, he’s a stickler for quality. “A rag is a tool,” he says. “No different than a screwdriver. Different tools for different applications. You have to make the tool and make it well.” A car wash doesn’t want a scratchy rag that’ll mar a finish; an oil and gas company doesn’t want a polyester rag that could discharge static electricity and set off an explosion; a maid service doesn’t want a colored rag that’s going to bleed dye onto a countertop.

Star Wipers Makes the Rags That Clean Up All Your Messes

According to Spotted, all kinds of things make one celebrity riskier than another. Firstborns are at slightly higher risk of disgrace, as are those under 35 or who’ve suffered recent breakups — until the passage of time sends the bereft partner back down the “risk-decay curve.” But behaviors are far more important than demographics. Mishaps needn’t be catastrophic events; drunk driving looms large because it signals “poor impulse control and emotion regulation,” according to Pete Dearborn, Spotted’s second behavioral scientist. (Comenos calls him and Hutchinson “the Doctors of Disgrace”.) Another risk is association — the kind of company that, say, Hailey Baldwin keeps (husband Justin Bieber, for one).

Can SpottedRisk Bring Scandal Insurance to Hollywood?

The SDAM cases reported here have a lifetime of practice in compensating for their lack of first-person, autonoetic connection to their own past with non-episodic processes (supported by, for example, rehearsing events and reviewing photographs). Patient H.C., a well-characterized developmental amnesic patient, also reported using frequent rehearsal and photograph viewing to compensate for her memory impairment

Polling by phone has become very expensive, as the number of Americans willing to respond to unexpected or unknown callers has dropped. Back in the mid-to-late-20th century response rates were as high as 70%, according to SSRS, a market research and polling firm. But the Pew Research Centre estimates that it received completed interviews from a mere 6% of the people it tried to survey in 2018.

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females strategically wear high heels when anticipating an interaction with an attractive male and in all probability avoid wearing high heels when anticipating an interaction with a relatively unattractive male

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In the UK, the fall in piano sales is well documented. About 5,000 are sold annually, according to data from the Music Industries Association, compared with 30,000 in the 1980s.

Whatever happened to Britain’s pianos? | Financial Times

Africa currently receives less than 0.5% of global VC investments! Over the last decade,

Talent or Capital? Pick one - Chika Nwobi - Medium

Even infrequent homeopathy prescribing is strongly associated with poor performance on a range of prescribing quality measures

Is use of homeopathy associated with poor prescribing in English primary care? A cross-sectional study - Alex J Walker, Richard Croker, Seb Bacon, Edzard Ernst, Helen J Curtis, Ben Goldacre, 2018

The headline finding from the paper is that team size correlates negatively with disruption, or put another way, small teams are much more likely to publish disruptive articles than large ones.

Measuring disruption in research articles – Steven Hill – Writings about research policy, evidence, and other topics.