Counties that narrowly elected a Republican prosecutor saw all-cause mortality among men aged 20 to 29 fall 6.6%, mostly through fewer gun deaths, apparently because more convictions legally cut off access to firearms.
Drawing on ethnographic and historical records, Ze Hong argues that most societies explained misfortune and coincidence through causes, spirits or luck, and that chance became an accepted explanation only late in history, alongside probability theory.
In 1,194 young adults from the Human Connectome Project, identical twins correlated at 0.33 in daydreaming versus 0.12 for fraternal twins, giving a heritability of 0.42; older and less educated participants daydreamed slightly less.
Gen Xers born from 1965 to 1972 vote and think more like Baby Boomers, while those born 1973 to 1980 side with Millennials. In 2016, older Gen Xers rated Trump 40.3 out of 100, younger ones just 30.8.
In Washington State, a 100-mile increase in home-to-prison distance cut monthly visits by 60% and raised one-year readmission by 9%. One extra visit a month lowered three-year re-incarceration by about 7% and post-release housing voucher use by 12%.
Blockbuster movie releases were followed by significantly higher US stock market returns the next week, along with lower expected volatility and risk aversion, and the pattern also appeared in international markets.
Analysing genetic data from 1,056,201 cases across 14 psychiatric disorders, the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium found five underlying genomic factors that explain around 66% of each disorder's genetic variance on average, tied to 238 shared genetic loci.
An analysis of 38 million US obituaries found tradition appears in 80% and benevolence in 76%, while power and stimulation are rare; men are remembered more for achievement and power, women for benevolence, and benevolence has not recovered since COVID-19.
An analysis of 20 million research papers and 4 million patents over half a century found that teams spread across cities are consistently less likely to produce disruptive discoveries, because distant members rarely conceive ideas together.
Across eight studies with 6,147 participants, people who moved more often, and residents of places with heavy population outflow, scored higher on the Dark Triad traits. A mobile mindset nudged people toward those traits, and people high in them preferred a mobile life.