There’s a subset of women who tend to be exceptional judges of people: it’s like they can smell character, with special attention paid to danger, lying, fear, neuroticism. It’s not universal or even common, and society tries to beat this sense out of women early in all sorts of ways. But in many fields you see that women are often the ones who can spot the traitor, the liar or the dark forces early. There’s of course an evolutionary reason for this sense, and you’d think it would be talked about more openly. Women who have it should protect and cultivate it. It’s a valuable gift from nature.

What if your baby never walks? What if they are never able to live independently? What if you could have stopped it… but chose not to? That’s the question @OrchidInc’s embryo screening forces. You optimize everything… career, diet, skincare… but you’re going to chance it on your child’s genome, one of the most significant determinants of their health?

What’s worse than a government owned grocery store?

The Twilight of Nicola Sturgeon My review of Frankly

Feeling a little slow today--time to do the mandatory @GeorgeMasonU safety training. TIL: Washing hands is a good idea.

Timely piece in the current JEP

The life expectancy of someone hit with 2,250 millisieverts of radiation in Hiroshima or Nagasaki was longer than the average Briton or American born in the same year. Today in Britain we spend billions controlling radiation levels more than 100,000 times smaller than this.

Vaccination rates have fallen in all of Britain’s child-immunisation programmes. But the drop is sharpest for HPV, despite unequivocal scientific evidence of the jab’s effectiveness Illustration: Mariaelena Caputi/Shutterstock

States could solve cross-state licensing problems in telehealth easily. A simple admin rule change recognizing the "practice of medicine" as occurring where the doctor is physically located, rather than where the patient is located.

I have this theory of a domino effect from sexual harassment law to workplaces cracking down on romance to the broader culture turning against courtship in all spaces except for dating apps. Exhibit 9274: