Stopping global warming is easy, the surprising truth about Blue Zones, and why you shouldn't gamble with slot machines.
Stopping global warming is easy, the surprising truth about Blue Zones, and why you shouldn't gamble with slot machines.
1st of September 2024.
Hello,
Here's what I have published on the blog:
Marketing Resources - a repository of marketing books and articles.
Here's the best of what I have published on Medium (free to access from this email):
Birthday Reflections: Mistakes I’ve Made Over the Last Decade
How to Be Satisfied With Yourself Whatever Happens in Your Life
Here's the cool stuff I have learned:
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that we cannot calculate with exact precision where a particle will be at a certain time because the universe works in a probabilistic, and not a deterministic way. Understand: there’s too much complexity for us to ever make accurate predictions.
We can end global warming by reflecting 2% of the sunshine the earth receives, which is as simple as releasing SO2 into the atmosphere.
The Return-to-Player ratio indicates the amount of money a slot machine will give back to the gambler. If it’s 95%, the machine will give back $95 out of the $100 it received. The 5% is called the “House Edge”.
Precocial species (cows, elephants, etc) give birth to mobile and mature babies while altricial species (humans, kangaroos, etc) give birth to underdeveloped babies who need a long maturing period. Joseph Campbell thought we were born too early and that myths acted as a pouch of protection and wisdom to help us do life.
Research shows that mental disorders have a genetic cause. Moreover, artists seem to suffer more from mental health issues than athletes or scientists.
Self-control is around 60% heritable.
Murder rates have been falling because hospitals have gotten better at saving people, not because today’s world is less violent.
The short-finned pilot whale and the African elephant are the only two animals that have more neurons than humans.
Low levels of cholesterol are linked with aggression in women.
None of the big experiments in social psychology replicated or were honestly conducted. Milgram’s Shock Machine, the Stanford Prison Experiment, the Robber’s Cave Experiment, The Asch Conformity Study, or the Marshmallow Test cannot be used to draw lessons from human nature.
Blue Zones, famous for having “centenarians”, were fake. Inhabitants didn’t declare their relatives’ deaths to keep on receiving their pensions, which made it look like people lived longer.
There’s a gender gap in AI usage.
Revolut is now offering e-sim plans.
Rolls-Royce (the cars) belongs to BMW. Rolls-Royce (the British company) makes engines for the aerospace industry. They split in the 20th century.
A Bulgarian beach bar looking like a Roman artifact was in fact, a Roman artifact.
North Korea is reopening to tourists.
Russia plans to introduce a visa for people who don’t like wokeness.
WWII bunker opens as a hotel in Hamburg.
The UAE bet big on tourism, followed by Saudi Arabia. Now Algeria is also opening up.
SF becomes again the startup capital of the world amid the failure of the work-from-anywhere model and questions about fundamental freedoms in Europe.
Francis Coppola is planning to make two new movies. Self-financing + risk-taking is the combination we need to advance the arts.
The second person to receive a Neuralink chip uses it to play Counter-Strike.
I am 11 years late on this but dolphins get high from pufferfish toxins.
Ikea launches a second-hand furniture marketplace, which is a good idea. Swappie makes €100 million a year selling second-hand iPhones and we talked about Lego buying the second-hand Lego marketplace Bricklink a while ago.
I bought a second-hand laptop for €278 (Thinkpad, core i7, 512GB) and I could not be happier. Better prices and better for the planet.
The Chinese population is shrinking…fast.
I am looking for new perspectives. You can help out here.
Take care,
Aure :)