Geoffrey Miller
Psychology professor; wrote The Mating Mind, Spent, Mate, & Virtue Signaling. Agnostic centrist into evolution, sex, sentience, freedom & future.
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The world's largest plane will soon be used to launch hypersonic aircraft capable of traveling 6 times the speed of sound
Stratolaunch Systems, founded by Microsoft's Paul Allen, is shifting to the development of hypersonic aircraft that may soon carry people and cargo.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China.
Sex research today: A chat w. Justin Lehmiller, Zhana Vrangalova, Diana Fleischman & Geoffrey Miller
A great chat about the state of sex research today, with four leading sex researchers: Justin Lehmiller (Kinsey Institute), Zhana Vrangalova (New York Univer...
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New YouTube video: A fun, wide-ranging chat with leading sex researchers @JustinLehmiller, @DrZhana, @sentientist, & me.
Topics include sex research, sex education, couples therapy, scientific taboos, & liberal vs. conservative sexual morality.
youtu.be/WWG0tRyVYgU pic.twitter.com/LwXalvNO3v
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Bill Gates is funding new factories for 7 potential coronavirus vaccines, even though it will waste billions of dollars
Bill Gates had previously said a coronavirus vaccine could be developed in 18 months.
New Yorkers, Once Again at Ground Zero, in Their Own Words
This week in our living oral history, the city’s residents—from the great to the humble—try to come to grips with a metropolis under assault by a virus.
Empty Hotels. Idled Tour Buses. The Pandemic Is Devastating Tourism.
Millions are losing their jobs and economies are suffering as once-bustling tourist sites give way to eerie emptiness. The Caribbean is suffering a particularly heavy blow.
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In my 'Effective Altruism' seminar last year, we tried to estimate how much we should invest in preventing global pandemics. Most students thought a few $billion/year.
Now Covid-19 is costing global tourism 1 million jobs a day, & $2 trillion this year.
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The Science & Ethics of 'Tiger King', with Geoffrey Miller, Justin Murphy, & Diana Fleischman
'Tiger King: Murder, Madness, & Mayhem' has been one of the most popular series on Netflix during this Great Cloistering. It's one of the most fascinating ex...
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Here's our new YouTube podcast on the science & ethics behind the hit Netflix series 'Tiger King'.
A fun chat w. @sentientist & @jmrphy:
youtu.be/g-KTxt_wQKU
Topics include cults, polygamy, psychopaths, archetypes, meth, ligers, zoothanasia, gun safety, & bad life choices. pic.twitter.com/rGVIJ5LyV0
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Tweets by members of Congress tell the story of an escalating COVID-19 crisis
More than half of all tweets sent by members of the U.S. Congress between March 11 and 21 were related to the coronavirus outbreak.
Why this crisis is a turning point in history
The deserted streets will fill again, and we will leave our screen-lit burrows blinking with relief. But the world will be different from how we imagined it in what we thought were normal times. This is not a temporary rupture in an otherwise stable...
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Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic on the EU: “European solidarity does not exist… that was a fairy tale. The only country that can help us in this hard situation is the People’s Republic of China. To the rest of them, thanks for nothing."
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How Our Recommended Charities are Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic
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If you want to help people in poorer countries who are especially vulnerable to the pandemic, here are some recommended evidence-based charities associated with the Effective Altruism movement
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New public space in the heart of Cardiff emerges during lockdown
The space has been transformed while people work from home
Zoom is facing questions about how private or secure it really is
Zoom has rapidly become the video-conferencing platform of choice as people stay home during the coronavirus pandemic. Now it’s under pressure.
California Coronavirus COVID-19 Response
We’re all in this together. We are working rapidly to keep our state healthy.
Coronavirus: US records 700 deaths in a single day for first time
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (REUTERS) - The US government raced to build hundreds of makeshift hospitals to ease the strain on overwhelmed healthcare systems as the United States marked 700 deaths in a single day from Covid-19 for the first time on Tuesday...
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