When deliberation noise varies systematically between individuals, accounting for decision processes is essential to accurately determining preferences, from Cesar Chavez Padilla, Shuaizhang Feng, James J. Heckman, and Zhe Yang www.nber.org/papers/w35526
Yes, the long calm was departing. A low advancing hum was soon heard
Political psychiatry in Russia: From empire to autocracy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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We are getting perilously close. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem...
Requiem (Anna Akhmatova) - Wikipedia
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The dominant model of opinion dynamics has long assumed that people average all views, outliers included. In a new paper, SFI's Kaleda Denton and colleagues test a different model, based on the most popular opinion, against real-world data and find it consistently beats DeGroot averaging.
Model redefining conformity excels against real-world data
In a new paper in PNAS, SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Kaleda Denton, SFI External Faculty Fellow, and Science Board Fellow Marcus Feldman, and independent researcher Jonathan F. Johannemann offer...
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Herta Müller’s memoir provides a visceral and more complete depiction of life under tyranny, and shows how art can serve as a means of both survival and commemoration, writes Laura Mills.
Romania Has Perfected the Art of Forgetting
In a new memoir, Nobel laureate Herta Müller condemns her homeland for failing to reconcile with history.
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“You must build a starship to take you to Venus.” A poem by D. Nurkse.
ONEST Newsroom Is Now Daily. Here’s Today’s Global Briefing. www.onestnetwork.com/onest-newsro...
ONEST Newsroom Is Now Daily. Here’s Today’s Global Briefing.
Six short video briefs and full written analysis on Trump, Iran, China, Ukraine, India, Alberta, and the Middle East.
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In one of the most devastating attacks on Kyiv since the start of the full-scale war, Russia’s missiles and drones targeted some of the city’s most treasured cultural landmarks.
Russia's latest assault on Kyiv turns Ukraine's cultural heritage into another front line
In one of the most devastating attacks on Kyiv since the start of the full-scale war, Russia’s missiles and drones targeted some of the city’s most treasured cultural landmarks. The National Art Muse...
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New report from IRENA confirms that "in prime solar and wind regions, hybrid solutions combined with storage deliver round-the-clock power at lower costs than fossil fuels." Renewables+storage = round-the-clock power, cheaper than fossil fuels, in an ever-widening set of geographies. Pretty cool.
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Kori Schake’s “The State and the Soldier” is the most important book on U.S. civil-military relations to appear in a generation, Bobby Ghosh writes.
The Book About the U.S. Military That Everyone Should Be Reading Now
Kori Schake’s ‘The State and the Soldier’ is the discussion on civilian control of the military that this moment requires.
foreignpolicy.com
You couldn’t see them when Renee Jo Platero took the graduation stage as student speaker Saturday at Santa Fe Community College, but the 58-year-old Navajo elementary school teacher carried her family and students with her.
'It's never too late': Grandmother with education degree highlights SFCC graduation
Santa Fe Community College honored 635 graduates Saturday — up 16% from last year — with 78% first-generation students.
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Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals, Working Paper No. 8, First Annual Conference on Discourse, Peace, Security, and International Society
Author(s): Cohn, Carol | Abstract: This paper is the beginning of an analysis of the nature of nuclear strategic thinking; its emphasis is on the role of a specialized language that I call "technostra...
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The spring 2026 issue of #Academe is out today! Contributors examine AI’s rapid integration into campus life, discuss how faculty are organizing around technology, and consider the value of human intellectual labor in an age of automation. Check out the full issue at www.aaup.org/issue/spring...
"The unexpected boom in home batteries and the equally surprising surge in rooftop solar installations means that Australia’s target of 82 per cent renewables by 2030 – long dismissed as a lost cause by some – is now very much within reach."
"Blows your mind:" Regulator says boom in home batteries and PV puts 82 pct renewables within reach
Regulator says surge in home battery and rooftop PV installations puts the 82 pct renewables target back in reach because it reduces the burden on large scale projects.
reneweconomy.com.au
In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
