When People Cheat, Addicted Gorillas, and the Invention of Online Shopping
Lots of psychology today.
Hello,
Here's what I have published on the blog:
Here's what I have published on Medium (free to access from this email):
Here's the interesting stuff I have learned:
Italy paid a bill that Italian tourists had not paid in an Albanian restaurant.
China is teaching African countries its political model.
Gorillas at the Toronto Zoo are addicted to online videos that tourists are showing them.
The Philipps Curve explains that as unemployment decreases, inflation increases. I doubt it still applies in an environment where inflation is fueled by insufficient production capacities (see Ray Dalio’s How the Economic Machine Works).
The code bar you see on products at the supermarket was invented in the US in the 1970s to speed up the purchasing process at supermarkets.
Michael Aldrich invented online shopping in 1979 when he modified a domestic TV, ten years before the invention of the World Wide Web in 1989.
Data centers are now exchanging 20-degree (Celsius) water with lobster farms in Norway to reduce energy consumption.
History is going through a replicability crisis where many of the things we thought we knew about history were in fact, wrong.
The Hebrew Bible is called the Tanakh, often mistaken for the Torah. The Torah is only a part of the Hebrew Bible.
50% - 70% of the variation in social status can be predicted by your lineage. Great people seem to come from great families.
The idea that women prefer a taller partner and men prefer a shorter one has been empirically observed.
This study outlines that men are more likely to cheat on their partner when they have the opportunity while women are more likely to cheat when they are dissatisfied with the relationship.
Couples seem to share political and religious convictions, IQ, and education. This echoes my belief that the quality of your relationships depends on how much you have in common with your friends/partner.
Family breakdown has surged from 9% in 1958 to 43% today in the UK.
The reason why non-symmetrical faces appear unattractive may be because it’s a sign of bad genetic mutations.
Smarter people seem to be less emotional.
Men overestimate the interest women have in them and the other way around.
The life events that are the likeliest to change your personality are: graduation, first job, a new relationship, marriage, and divorce. I’m surprised having kids was not as influential.
The ratio men/women present in a room at a given moment seems to influence women’s self-image. The more women, the more they become self-conscious.
Indians are more likely to believe in India’s growing power than other nations are. My guess is that the media don’t talk about India as much as they talk about China. Meanwhile, the image of India has been losing positivity in Europe since 2008.
Take care,
Auré :)