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Study Shows Some Humans Are Evolving To Be 'Foxier'
Study Shows Some Humans Are Evolving To Be 'Foxier'
Authored by David Randall via RealClearScience,
The latest report from David Reich’s genetics lab at Harvard is that “Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia.” In other words, humans have been continuing to evolve in Europe and the Middle East for the last 10,000 years, with significant effect. Reich’s paper broadly substantiates the thesis of Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending’s The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution. Civilization hasn’t ended biological evolution, but proceeds alongside it.
Reich’s genome-wide association...
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Apr 26, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Compute Costs More Than Talent In AI
Compute Costs More Than Talent In AI
For leading AI companies, the biggest expense is not talent. It is compute.
This chart from Visual Capitalist’s AI Week, sponsored by Terzo, uses Epoch AI data to compare spending at Anthropic, Minimax, and Z.ai across R&D compute, inference compute, and staff plus other costs.
In every case, compute accounts for the majority of total spending, underscoring how capital-intensive it has become to build and serve frontier AI models.
How AI Company Costs Break Down
Despite differences in scale, all three companies allocate the largest share of their budgets to a...
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Apr 25, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Netanyahu Treated For Early Stage Cancer For 2-Years Without Telling Public
Netanyahu Treated For Early Stage Cancer For 2-Years Without Telling Public
Via Middle East Eye
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed he was treated for early-stage cancer but is now in "excellent condition".
Writing on X, Netanyahu said he had remained quiet about his health condition and delayed publication of his record so as not to provide "propaganda" opportunities for Iran.
via AFP
"A year and a half ago, I underwent successful surgery for an enlarged benign prostate, and since then I have been under routine medical monitoring. In the last monitoring, a tiny...
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Mar 28, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Maersk Slaps Emergency Fuel Surcharge As War Upends Marine Supply Chains
Maersk Slaps Emergency Fuel Surcharge As War Upends Marine Supply Chains
Submitted by Michael Kern of OilPrice.com,
The war in the Middle East has upended shipping fuel markets with prices of marine fuels skyrocketing and regions running low on supply, pushing some traders to forgo cargo and ship additional fuel volumes to key bunkering ports outside the Middle East.
The price of fuel oil has surged this month as the stalled tanker traffic at the Strait of Hormuz is tightening supplies of the fuel in Asia, the key bunkering hub for fuel...
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