Still-Life with Toaster, Coffee Pot and Cup; Painter’s Clothes; and The Small Hours, paintings by William Wright, whose work was on view in June as part of the exhibition Nocturnes, at Casa MB, in Milan © The artist. Courtesy the artist; Casa MB, Milan; and Sea View, Los Angeles
Unaffiliated voters are growing more spiteful toward both Democrats and Republicans. Male atheists can be differentiated from Christians on the basis of facial cues. Hispanic men view beards of all lengths more favorably than do Iranian men. Scholars unveiled a machine-learning model that can detect Persian hate speech. Dutchwomen in same-sex relationships were more likely to be suspected of crimes than those dating men, whereas Dutchmen in same-sex relationships were less likely to be suspects than those dating women. Men attracted to men who perceive more discrimination in their lives are likelier to experience postcoital dysphoria, and Saudi doctors cured a man of his postejaculatory flu-like symptoms. Human subjects whose mouths were attached to gustatory apparatuses that suctioned out oral cavity fluids and delivered aqueous solutions of Korean hot sauce and Hershey’s hot-chocolate powder exhibited the activation of overlapping as well as distinct brain regions in response to pleasure and pain. The diet of Japanese youth is growing more confectionary, and Americans are poisoning themselves more severely. Macaques with lesions on the mediodorsal thalamus display quasi-paranoid behavior. Individuals incarcerated in Texas are 5,000 percent likelier to commit suicide in prebooking than in prison.
A survey of 7 million parliamentary speeches across eight countries and several decades found that politicians use less complex language as it gets hotter, and a bedrock core collected off the California coast suggests that doubling atmospheric CO2 may increase temperatures by 7.2 to 13.9 degrees Celsius. An estimated 135 million premature deaths between 1980 and 2020 can be attributed to fine-particulate pollution. An interdisciplinary team of scientists introduced the metric of the “lake-smoke day” to measure the prevalence of wildfire smoke over lakes, and it was found that California wildfires make weather hotter and drier, leading to more wildfires. Engineers designed a new textile that acts as a heat shield against the infrared radiation of urban heat islands as well as against direct sunlight. Florida scientists were optimistic about the possibility of breeding sweatier Brangus cattle, and Indian scientists investigated the resistance to African swine fever among indigenous Doom pigs. Researchers reported success in developing a human-derived black widow antivenom to replace existent equine-derived antibodies. A sixty-two-year-old Florida man in a new romantic relationship presented with increased opioid cravings after taking horny goat weed to boost his libido. Cocaine trafficking was found to threaten the golden-cheeked warbler, and marmalade hoverflies continue to migrate through the Pass of Bujaruelo.
Zoologists reported that they were unable to monitor the eye movements of sleeping draughtsboard sharks. The gray whales of the Pacific Coast Feeding Group have been getting shorter over the past quarter century. A study of 3.3 million years of stone tool production suggested that cumulative culture emerged among humans 600,000 years ago. The signature of Earth’s early rain was found inside zircon crystals from the Hadean Eon. Cassini’s Permanent Spot likely vanished from Jupiter between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, and the Great Red Spot arose at least 190 years ago. Manned missions to Mars would cause irreversible kidney damage.
