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The Barista Who Is On Your Side
Researchers at the Policy Institute at King's College London, working with the charity Sense about Science and funded by Wellcome, surveyed 4,262 British adults about trust in scientists. Then they ran regression modelling to find out what actually drives it. The answer was not expertise. The two factors most strongly associated with trust were whether people felt scientists are on the side of people like them, and whether they thought...
Intensity Is a Different Drink
Researchers at Rockefeller University put people through two very different workouts and then went looking in their blood for what changed. Six all-out thirty-second sprints, three minutes of actual effort, altered around a quarter of all the proteins measured immediately afterwards, 714 of them, along with more than two hundred metabolites. Ninety minutes of continuous moderate cycling altered seven. Not seven percent. Seven proteins, fewer...
Keep the Ritual, Change the Cup
Cochrane published an updated review of electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation, pooling 80 randomised controlled trials and 29,861 participants, nine of those trials new to this update. It is a living review, meaning it gets revised as evidence arrives, and this version carries Cochrane's top grade of high-certainty evidence on its central finding. People given nicotine e-cigarettes were about 61 percent more likely to still be off...
Own the Van, Not the Bottle
C&C Group agreed on Friday to acquire Asahi UK's wholesale interests, including Nectar Imports and Asahi UK's direct distribution business, for nominal consideration. The shares closed up 13.45 percent at 101.2p, adding roughly £44 million of equity value against a market capitalisation of about £373 million. Nominal consideration. Effectively, the assets changed hands for a token, and the buyer's market value went up by more than forty...
Everybody Wants to Slow Down Together
Sam Altman told OpenAI staff this week that the company is considering slowing down development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence, and that he hopes other companies will do the same. The reported condition attached to it is the part worth reading twice: if the government confirms that coordinating on pace is not an antitrust problem. The week around that remark was loud. An Anthropic researcher resigned publicly over concerns that AI labs...