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Across the animal kingdom, natural selection has sculpted a remarkable array of reproductive strategies, but humans are unique in that we consciously design institutions that shape incentives and constrain behavior. The modern welfare state highlights this dynamic. As resources are redistributed for paternalistic purposes, the state increasingly supplants functions once anchored in family and kinship. By altering costs and benefits, these interventions create conditions for alternative reproductive strategies to emerge. The patterns of reproductive behavior are illuminated by Robert Trivers’s Parental Investment Theory, which demonstrates how sexes differ in their approaches to the trade-off between parental care and mating efforts.…

Dems' Two-Tiered Justice System for Illegal Immigrants Source link

Last year, President Donald Trump sued The Wall Street Journal, claiming the newspaper had defamed him by reporting that he contributed to a 2003 album marking the 50th birthday of financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was later convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution in Florida and committed suicide in 2019 while facing federal charges involving sex trafficking of minors. On Monday, a federal judge in Miami dismissed that lawsuit without prejudice, meaning Trump can try to correct the legal deficiencies in his initial complaint. Given the facts of the case, it seems doubtful that Trump can meet that challenge. But even…

Telegony is a long-discredited concept of sexual heredity that has been making a surprising comeback in recent years—particularly within digital filter bubbles, right-wing esoteric milieus, and so-called energy coaching scenes. But what does this tongue-twisting term actually mean? Classical philologists will recognize Telegony as the title of a lost Greek epic recounting the story of Telegonus, the son of Odysseus and the sorceress Circe.1 This rare literary reference, however, has little to do with the way the term is used today. In scientific-historical terms, telegony refers to the former belief that a woman’s previous sexual partner—often assumed to be the first—could permanently…

Trump Blockades the Blockaders in Iran Source link

A commentary argues that US President Donald Trump may be underestimating Irans leverage in the Strait of Hormuz, warning that a blockade is more likely to deepen conflict than force concessions. It says energy blockades are acts of war, slow to take effect, and risk collapsing the fragile ceasefire while hurting the global economy.Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

The Iranian government has allowed a number of foreign vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz in recent days, with some reports stating that a one-month permit had been granted to certain ships. Once a conduit for much of the world’s oil supply, the strait was effectively closed by Tehran in response to US and Israeli attacks. At least six Bangladeshi cargo ships and two Chinese vessels have reportedly passed through the key waterway this week, while Turkey’s Anadolu news agency noted that a one-month permit was issued for “certain vessels” on Wednesday, though offered few details about the move.…

Is the world at one of those tipping-point moments? Source link

A former inspector general who fast-tracked a "whistleblower" complaint that led to the first impeachment of President Trump in 2019 knew the whistleblower was a registered Democrat and Joe Biden loyalist yet still determined his complaint was "a matter of urgent concern that appeared credible," according to newly declassified documents. Source link

A system that comes to depend on synthetic signaling for its “information” is doomed to Model Collapse, as its signaling has completely detached from the real world. That we inhabit a post-truth world seems to accepted wisdom. But that’s only half of it. We also live in a post-trust world. In a post-truth world, everything is shaped by the implicit goals of the entity claiming to state the “truth,” as the entire point of claiming to state the “truth” is to persuade the target populace to agree to something favorable to the issuer of the claimed “truth.” In other words, the “truth” as something that…