"To put it bluntly, the average 20-year-old today is less conscientious and more neurotic than 70 percent of all people were just a decade ago." Yascha Mounk in @thedispatch on we got the internet all wrong

“the train will be too noisy for my dead father” is probably the funniest NIMBY argument I’ve ever heard

Credit is just a proxy for trust. Social trust is the foundation of modern civilisation.

Masterchef: Prisoner Edition

This is what a platypus facing forward looks like.

PM @AlboMP and @SenatorWong know there’s no unified governing authority for Palestine. Hamas controls Gaza, Fatah the West Bank. Recognition is a cynical ploy to appease domestic voters, not a genuine acknowledgment of statehood.

Lovely, reflective piece on getting older by @mrianleslie in @JoinPersuasion. Reminds me of one of my favourite poems by the Australian poet David Campbell

Fascinating insight from a school teacher on in school phone bans.

This never ever, ever works. In my experience, when things go bad because of communist ideas, people think it's because the communism did not go far enough (see Europe).

I’ve been working with an IVF startup, @herasight, that has already screened hundreds of embryos. Today we come out of stealth with a paper showing that our predictors for 17 diseases — validated within-family — beat the competition, with improved performance in non-Europeans🧵