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Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions.
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World Inequality Report 2026
YouTube video by World Inequality Lab
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions.
👇Share this thread, share the report!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
👇Share this thread, share the report!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
Mathematical interval notation is not the same everywhere! For example Danes and French use different ones, see fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interva...
Intervalle (mathématiques) — Wikipédia
fr.wikipedia.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Mathematical interval notation is not the same everywhere! For example Danes and French use different ones, see fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interva...
People should pay more attention to their environments: www.sciencealert.com/scientists-f...
Scientists Found a Weird Way to Make People Kinder: Add Batman
A new study has found that people are more likely to act kind towards others when Batman is present – and not for the reasons you might assume.
www.sciencealert.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
People should pay more attention to their environments: www.sciencealert.com/scientists-f...
Fungi might even consume radiation - that’s one hell of an appetite! www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation
Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays?
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Fungi might even consume radiation - that’s one hell of an appetite! www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Not against some difference, but 100$ seems really high www.bbc.com/news/article...
US hikes national park fees for foreigners to put 'American families first'
Non-residents will soon have to pay $100 per person to enter 11 of the United States' most popular parks.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Not against some difference, but 100$ seems really high www.bbc.com/news/article...
Full of interesting insights : unpublishablepapers.substack.com/p/where-do-t...
Where Do the Children Play?
On the need for a world without us
unpublishablepapers.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Full of interesting insights : unpublishablepapers.substack.com/p/where-do-t...
Interesting way to look at equations: gods.art/articles/equ...
Caleb Madrigal
gods.art
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Interesting way to look at equations: gods.art/articles/equ...
One more thing that might be bad for your health : pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Proximity to Golf Courses and Risk of Parkinson Disease
Does living within proximity to a golf course affect the risk of Parkinson disease (PD)? This case-control study found the greatest risk of PD within 1 to 3 miles of a golf course, and that this risk ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
One more thing that might be bad for your health : pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
One more reason to address inequality: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health - Nature Mental Health
Rakesh et al. used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development cohort study to evaluate the relationship between state-level income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health in young people.
www.nature.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
One more reason to address inequality: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
If you ever wondered how the metro stations interchanges look like you can now see it in 3D : stations.albertguillaumes.cat
Stations and transfers
A gallery of drawings depicting the topology of metro stations from different European cities.
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
September 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you ever wondered how the metro stations interchanges look like you can now see it in 3D : stations.albertguillaumes.cat
Probably the best is to use with moderation: publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...
MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law
By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
publichealthpolicyjournal.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Probably the best is to use with moderation: publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...
One more job with (probably) too long conference calls: edition.cnn.com/2025/08/27/u... .
F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before fighter jet crashed in Alaska | CNN
A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the g...
edition.cnn.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
One more job with (probably) too long conference calls: edition.cnn.com/2025/08/27/u... .
Who would have thought that walkable cities allow people to walk more ? www.nature.com/articles/s41... Anyhow, still good we have some numbers, now if only people will accept walking more is healthier ...
Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature
By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...
www.nature.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Who would have thought that walkable cities allow people to walk more ? www.nature.com/articles/s41... Anyhow, still good we have some numbers, now if only people will accept walking more is healthier ...
Interesting, let's see if they get to the next level and hack the traffic light to trigger it :p.
www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05...
www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05...
Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology, and conservation, is the author of a recently published Frontiers in Ethology article that
www.frontiersin.org
May 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Interesting, let's see if they get to the next level and hack the traffic light to trigger it :p.
www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05...
www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05...
If you ever thought an address is something simple: www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falseh...
Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses
www.mjt.me.uk
April 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
If you ever thought an address is something simple: www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falseh...
Wonder how many problems would be solved faster if only people would talk more to each other: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Wonder how many problems would be solved faster if only people would talk more to each other: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Sometimes parliaments take good decisions: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate
In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutt...
www.eff.org
March 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Sometimes parliaments take good decisions: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Ariane 6 soared to the skies once again! 🚀
This time, with a triple boost from Vinci!
After the deployment of its passenger, Ariane 6's Vinci engine’s third boost put the upper stage into a reentry orbit to safely burn up through Earth’s atmosphere, preventing accumulation of space debris.
This time, with a triple boost from Vinci!
After the deployment of its passenger, Ariane 6's Vinci engine’s third boost put the upper stage into a reentry orbit to safely burn up through Earth’s atmosphere, preventing accumulation of space debris.
March 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Ariane 6 soared to the skies once again! 🚀
This time, with a triple boost from Vinci!
After the deployment of its passenger, Ariane 6's Vinci engine’s third boost put the upper stage into a reentry orbit to safely burn up through Earth’s atmosphere, preventing accumulation of space debris.
This time, with a triple boost from Vinci!
After the deployment of its passenger, Ariane 6's Vinci engine’s third boost put the upper stage into a reentry orbit to safely burn up through Earth’s atmosphere, preventing accumulation of space debris.
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So I didn't know, but Europe already has a backup of PubMed, the database of biomedical research publications. The US PubMed broke down over the weekend. And here is our alternative: https://europepmc.org/ #pubmed #pmc
Europe PMC
Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.
europepmc.org
March 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
So I didn't know, but Europe already has a backup of PubMed, the database of biomedical research publications. The US PubMed broke down over the weekend. And here is our alternative: https://europepmc.org/ #pubmed #pmc
Nice that progress is made on some topics:
www.cea.fr/english/Page...
www.cea.fr/english/Page...
Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration!
On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the previous record for plasma duration achieved with a tokamak. This leap forwa...
www.cea.fr
March 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Nice that progress is made on some topics:
www.cea.fr/english/Page...
www.cea.fr/english/Page...
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A new paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published in Nature Medicine. I've reviewed the background and main findings in a new Ground Truths post erictopol.substack.com/p/the-microp...
February 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A new paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published in Nature Medicine. I've reviewed the background and main findings in a new Ground Truths post erictopol.substack.com/p/the-microp...
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Life expectancy in the US
—by educational attainment, by county
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @ihmeuw.bsky.social
—the growing inequalities
abcnews.go.com/Health/growi... @amymaxmen.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.bsky.social
—by educational attainment, by county
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @ihmeuw.bsky.social
—the growing inequalities
abcnews.go.com/Health/growi... @amymaxmen.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Life expectancy in the US
—by educational attainment, by county
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @ihmeuw.bsky.social
—the growing inequalities
abcnews.go.com/Health/growi... @amymaxmen.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.bsky.social
—by educational attainment, by county
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @ihmeuw.bsky.social
—the growing inequalities
abcnews.go.com/Health/growi... @amymaxmen.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.bsky.social
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#Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kampf is an astounding read. It is very educational to read literature from just before historical events. In here we find that up to 1939 Hitler was regarded rather favorably by many, for reasons we might recognize today. Frightening: bookmarks.reviews/george-orwel...
George Orwell's 1940 Review of Mein Kampf
bookmarks.reviews
January 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
#Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kampf is an astounding read. It is very educational to read literature from just before historical events. In here we find that up to 1939 Hitler was regarded rather favorably by many, for reasons we might recognize today. Frightening: bookmarks.reviews/george-orwel...
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January 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Interesting article on trust in scientists : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Nature Human Behaviour
What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.
www.nature.com
January 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Interesting article on trust in scientists : www.nature.com/articles/s41...