‘Handedness’ in snakes?
US Secret Service robot dogs patroll Mar-A-Lago
NYU scientists create crystals to extract water from air without using energy
This study aimed to investigate whether trainee therapists could estimate client deterioration after each session […] psychotherapists were unable to identify clients getting worse during therapy and failed to predict clients who would end therapy with more severe psychological problems than before therapy
The current scientific consensus is that the placebo effect is a real healing effect operating through belief and suggestion. The evidence does not support this. In clinical trials of treatments, outcomes in placebo and no-treatment arms are similar, distinguishable only in tiny differences on self-report measures. A Case Against the Placebo Effect
Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: Evidence from 350,757 flips
‘Handedness’ in snakes? […] only three out of 30 snakes showed a significant coil preference […] all three of these individuals were adult females and had a clockwise coil preference [PDF]
Instagram is flooded with hundreds of AI-generated influencers who are stealing videos from real models and adult content creators, giving them AI-generated faces, and monetizing their bodies with links to dating sites, Patreon, OnlyFans competitors, and various AI apps. The practice, first reported by 404 Media in April, has since exploded in popularity, showing Instagram is unable or unwilling to stop the flood
Phillips’s evening sale of modern and contemporary art in New York on Tuesday evening (19 November) […] The next lot, a double self-portrait by Jean-Michel Basquiat from 1983 that had previously belonged to actor-turned-artist Johnny Depp, had one of the night’s highest estimates at $10m to $15m. After receiving just one bid, auctioneer Henry Highley appeared to sell it for a hammer price of $9.3m, however following the sale’s conclusion a spokesperson for Phillips revealed that the work had in fact failed to sell—knocking about 17% off the night’s total. (A Basquiat work on paper earlier in the evening sold for its low estimate of $1m, or $1.2m with fees.)
In 1997, Laura Ingraham wrote an essay in The Washington Post in which she stated that she had changed her views on homosexuality after witnessing “the dignity, fidelity, and courage” with which her gay brother, Curtis, and his partner coped with the latter being diagnosed with AIDS; Curtis’s partner ultimately died of the disease. Curtis, on the other hand, has called his sister “a monster” and said she was influenced by their father, whom he described as a Nazi sympathizer as well as an abusive alcoholic.
That kid’s gonna be chasing that high for the rest of his life
