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GLP-1 meds—perhaps better known by brand names like Ozempic and Wegovy—have become widespread as weight loss tools. But there’s evidence that links their use to to a range of positive health outcomes, and now researchers say they may “alter social and economic outcomes” too. Specifically, relationship outcomes. In a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, the Harvard economist Rebecca Diamond found GLP-1 use linked to higher likelihood of marriage or cohabitation. You are reading Sex & Tech, from Elizabeth Nolan Brown. Get more of Elizabeth’s sex, tech, bodily autonomy, law, and online culture coverage. Using data from the…
Fariba Amini Informed Comment In the 1975 film Three Days of the Condor, the late Robert Redford played Joe Turner, a disenchanted CIA field officer who was being chased by rogue higher-ups within the Company. The Redford character asks Joubert, the CIA man who was pursuing him, “So it was all about oil?” Joubert says in reply, “Yes of course it always has been.” They wanted Turner dead. August 19, 1953, brings back memories. The CIA and MI6, in an unholy alliance, staged a coup d’etat in Iran. They brought down Mossadegh’s government. In March 1953, in preparation for…
Anthropic has put itself at odds with nearly the entire AI industry. In a conspicuous break with its peers, the frontier lab declined last month to sign an open letter supporting a permissive policy toward open-weight AI models, which anyone can download, modify, and run on their own devices. Anthropic says it acted out of concern for public safety, offering its customary warnings about AI-enabled catastrophe. But its real motives may be considerably more self-serving. If Anthropic were serious about being the AI company with a conscience, it would have no shortage of public concerns to address. It could devote…
Texas is now slated to pass California in population, driven both by both immigration and domestic migration. Source link
The new law attacks barriers to housing construction. The president still has enormous power to determine who can afford to own. Source link
Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Media outlets often claim Americans are wealthier than Europeans, but it’s not true. Average wealth looks high, but is skewed by extreme inequality. US median wealth is quite low. This is the real data. It is often said that the United States is the richest country on Earth. This is a myth. It is certainly true that, in the United States, there are some very, very rich people, including the wealthiest billionaires on Earth, and the first ever trillionaire (Elon Musk). However, when you look at the country as a whole, you see that the US…
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News Desk, The Cradle. President Trump said US consumers should not complain about ‘paying more’ for gasoline due to his war on Iran. US oil reserves have fallen to the lowest level in 40 years, raising fears that the underground caverns holding them could be permanently damaged as Washington struggles to manage the fallout of its ongoing war on Iran. Data released last week by the Department of Energy showed that the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) will fall to roughly 243 million barrels of oil after the current release of 172 million barrels is completed. Before the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022, the…
“We don’t want regime change… but the regime has to change.” That line tells you almost everything about how Washington talks itself into bigger wars, and why the US Iran conflict keeps drifting from one stated goal to the next. We sit down with Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski to sort out what’s real, what’s posturing, and what the incentives look like behind the curtain as Trump alternates between strike threats and sudden stand downs. We dig into the reported faction fight inside the White House between escalation minded voices and officials trying to slow the spiral, plus the hard constraint…