Month: April 2024

Markets Vs. Mandates: Promoting Environmental Quality And Economic Prosperity (Markets vs Mandates Research Team)

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On April 8, 2024, the Hoover Institution will host its second annual one-day conference on Markets vs. Mandates: Promoting Environmental Quality and Economic Prosperity. Building on Hoover’s founding principles of generating ideas that define healthy and free societies, the program will evaluate when, if, and how institutions and policies can improve environmental quality while also promoting …

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World Bank Climate Change Policies Leaving Global South Worse Off (Bjorn Lomborg)

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The World Bank is passing up some of its most economically impactful opportunities to meet sustainable development goals to pursue costly, yet low-yielding, climate change projects, argues Hoover visiting fellow Bjorn Lomborg. The World Bank is passing up some of its most economically impactful opportunities to meet sustainable development goals to pursue costly, yet low-yielding, climate …

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The evolving attitudes of Gen X toward evolution (Morgan Sherburne)

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As the centennial of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 approaches, a new study illustrates that the attitudes of Americans in Generation X toward evolution shifted as they aged. The study, led by Jon D. Miller, research scientist emeritus in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, found that while students in middle …

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Ancient human evolution is “unparalleled” in nature (Evrim Yazgin)

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Interspecies competition in ancient humans saw an evolutionary trend that is the complete opposite of almost all other vertebrates, according to a new study. For years, scientists assumed the main driver of the rise and fall of hominin species (which includes humans and our direct ancestors) was climate change. It is known, however, that interspecies competition is …

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Modern Japanese people arose from 3 ancestral groups, 1 of them unknown, DNA study suggests (Emily Cooke)

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Modern Japanese people largely originated from three ancestral groups and carry ancient DNA that may influence their risk of developing certain diseases, genetic analyses suggest. Modern Japanese people largely descend from three ancestral groups, a new study suggests. The research also reveals genetic ties with our closest extinct relatives — the Neanderthals and Denisovans — and how these genes …

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Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event (Michael Irving,

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Last time this happened, Earth got plants. Scientists have caught a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event in progress, as two lifeforms have merged into one organism that boasts abilities its peers would envy. Last time this happened, Earth got plants. The phenomenon is called primary endosymbiosis, and it occurs when one microbial organism engulfs another, and starts using …

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Ohio GOP leaders reject Democrats’ plan to get President Joe Biden on November ballot (Haley BeMiller, Columbus Dispatch)

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Ohio officials rejected a plan from Democrats to get President Joe Biden on the November ballot after the party scheduled its convention past a state election deadline. Secretary of State Frank LaRose warned Ohio Democrats earlier this month that Biden is at risk of not making the Nov. 5 ballot. State law requires officials to certify the ballot 90 …

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The Five Futures of Russia And How America Can Prepare for Whatever Comes Next (Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs)

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Vladimir Putin happened to turn 71 last October 7, the day Hamas assaulted Israel. The Russian president took the rampage as a birthday present; it shifted the context around his aggression in Ukraine. Perhaps to show his appreciation, he had his Foreign Ministry invite high-ranking Hamas representatives to Moscow in late October, highlighting an alignment …

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