Researchers have observed a Sumatran #orangutan in the wild repeatedly treating its own wound with a plant with several known medicinal properties - the first scientific record of this behaviour in a wild animal mpg.de/21886982/0429-… Isabelle Laumer PhD caroline…

In most African nations, starting a business is like swimming through molasses.

Commercial laws in Africa are among the worst in the world.

You can look it up for yourself.

Of the twenty lowest-ranked countries in the world for starting a business, Africa makes up thirteen of…

Arizona State University Arizona State University Professor Robert Boyd is among those newly elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. Congratulations! 👏 Read more: bit.ly/3wkVHIP

thinking about swedes being bamboozled when applying to US universities and being asked to share their parents' income

Coleoid Cephalopods Demonstrate Asocial Path to the Evolution of Big Brains biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

It's not stupid. Musk makes sense. This was 95, people were still dialing into Bulletin Board Servers and each other's computers. Sounds like the program was the server. C and C++ can be mixed.

Researchers disprove current thinking on how to achieve global collaboration. The theory behind 'virtual signalling' doesn’t produce global collaboration. phys.org/news/2024-04-c…

Researchers disprove current thinking on how to achieve global collaboration phys.org/news/2024-04-c… via Phys.org

Looking forward to chatting to ⁦David Miliband⁩ next week about the big choices facing the UK. Do join us. nesta.org.uk/event/uk-2040-…

The one consistent thing behind all prosperous societies is a free market (or at least the base requirements for entrepreneurs to create value). The entrepreneurial toolkit consists of property rights, rule of law, and economic freedom.

A full house for tonight's special event with Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz who is speaking about his new book, 'The road to freedom: economics and the good society'. #LSEStiglitz
 
Watch live: youtube.com/watch?v=HfBgGW…

The wisdom of the Kalven Principles in practice - the university is the home and sponsor of a variety of positions but does not take positions itself except on its mission of discovery, improvement, and dissemination of knowledge.

I made another appearance on local German radio 📻 Mostly an interview about my research and life in Tübingen, but I also selected music, mostly electronic. The recording is available at the link below (press the triangle play button) until around May 6th:
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Breaking news from Besample! 🔥 Selected from thousands of applicants, this week we're starting a spring program with Techstars, a top world accelerator ⭐️ With great mentors and additional funding, we are poised to make a difference in human-focused research, providing a…

Like queueing, democracy relies on restraint, and we’re losing the knack

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Wake up Europe, the digital age is bypassing you. You have no Google , Amazon, Meta, Apple. You arrogantly called SpaceX a fanciful dream and it wiped out the European Space Agency. You have no Nvidia and your response to AI has been to regulate before you have anything domestic…

In this piece for Nature Computational Science, Matjaz Perc and I discuss a super cool work by AnzhiSheng_1002, Qi Su, Long Wang, and Joshua B. Plotkin.

This article introduces a framework for studying the evolution of cooperation in higher-order networks.

Higher-order networks differ from…

Astonishing chart from John Burn-Murdoch- on.ft.com/49OMvdz The UK is brilliant at handling immigration, relatively.

Could be a huge strength in the decades ahead

This 'Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking' is fascinating (authors Kevin Hong Edward Slingerland Joe Henrich ). Also many places where we might replace 'rainmaking' with 'statistics' and sense remains similar. Article: doi.org/10.1086/729118

If you're 18-22 years old, consider applying for Works in Progress's summer school in August.

It features Saloni Dr Anton Howes Stuart Ritchie 🇺🇦, and others, on topics like the causes of the Industrial Revolution and the dysfunctions of modern science.

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