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According to Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the father of at least a dozen children, the greatest potential risk to the future of civilisation is population collapse. Taking a very long-term ...

The cobra effect provides a cautionary tale. Source: Asad Ys / Unsplash Few things can ruin your daily commute faster than a chance encounter with a venomous cobra. And if you lived in New Delhi ...

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Starting from a view on language as a complex, hierarchically organized system composed of many parts that have many interactions, this paper investigates statistical relationships between the ...

This report provides state by state estimates for the educational profile of voters in the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential elections. Estimates are based on an analysis of the Current ...

Fields as diverse as human genetics and sociology are increasingly using polygenic scores based on genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for phenotypic prediction. However, recent work has shown that ...

In 2017, for example, the average full-time, year-round working woman earned 80.5 percent of what the average full-time, year round working man earned. 46 Women of color and all mothers face even ...

Figure 1d highlights that the rate of emergence is faster for human populations than for surface area in each RCP; in other words, climates change faster where people live than where they do not.

Abstract: Neural systems are inherently noisy. One well-studied example of a noise reduction mechanism in the brain is the population code, where representing a variable with multiple neurons allows ...

Abstract: Monte Carlo (MC) methods are well-known computational techniques, widely used in different fields such as signal processing, communications and machine learning. An important class of MC ...