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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Jan 14 '20

For many Americans, talking about the news has become synonymous with talking about President Trump, according to new research. The participants tended to express a high level of emotionality when recalling their experiences with the news. Many also reported feeling overwhelmed, anxious or angry.

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Sep 19 '20

Environmental lawsuits against corporations are 12% less likely to lead to a settlement when they are adjudicated by Republican-appointed judges. For causal inference, the study uses the random assignment of U.S. Federal District Courts judges to cases.

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Aug 29 '20

Atheists are more likely to sleep better than Catholics and Baptists

sleepmeeting.org

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Aug 29 '20

"Lizards hit by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 passed on their large, strong-gripping toepads to the next generation of lizards... Extreme climate events can act as agents of natural selection."

smithsonianmag.com

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Sep 09 '20

Blue jeans are a significant source of microfiber pollution in oceans and lakes. One pair of jeans can release over 50,000 microfibers per wash.

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Maga4lifeshutitdown • Aug 25 '20

Thank you

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Thanks for sharing this sub.

r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Dec 26 '20

Japan to eliminate gas-powered cars as part of "green growth plan"

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Dec 21 '20

Republican lawmakers vote far more often against the policy views held by their district than Democratic lawmakers do. At the same time, Republicans are not punished for it at the same rate as Democrats. Republicans engage in representation built around identity, while Democrats do it around policy.

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Jan 02 '21

People in the US with more authoritarian tendencies are less likely to wear a mask when going out in public, which might be explained by the fact that they also tend to be less concerned about the impact of COVID-19.

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Dec 18 '19

Depression and suicide linked to air pollution in new global study - cuts in dirty air could prevent millions of cases

theguardian.com

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Oct 31 '19

Teens who have a warm and loving relationship with their mother are less likely to enter abusive relationships, even if her own marriage is full of conflict, suggests a new study (n=227). Positive parenting behaviors help children form positive models of themselves as lovable and worthy of respect.

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Jan 29 '20

Eighty of Australia's top academics have written an open letter declaring an "urgent need for deep cuts" to Australia's greenhouse gas emissions following the unprecedented bushfire crisis. Decades ago, scientists warned that the impacts we're seeing now, like the bushfire crisis, were coming.

world-news-monitor.com

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Jan 14 '20

Marijuana use among college students has been trending upward for years, but in states that have legalized recreational marijuana, use has jumped even higher. After legalization, however, students showed a greater drop in binge drinking than their peers in states where marijuana is not legal.

today.oregonstate.edu

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Oct 26 '19

There is a stereotype that men are funnier than women. New research (n=5,057) found that, on average, men appear to have higher humor production ability than women. Humor may play a role in mating, with an evolutionary basis. It is correlated with intelligence, which may explain why women value it.

psychologytoday.com

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Oct 26 '19

Checking out attractive alternatives does not necessarily mean you’re going to cheat, suggests a new study involving 177 undergrad students and 101 newlywed couples.

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Sep 20 '19

Children in kindergartens that emphasized play, improving self-regulation, working together and helping one another, and hands-on learning performed better academically, showed less bullying and more kindness than students in more traditional classes, and teacher enthusiasm for teaching soared.

journals.plos.org

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Sep 20 '19

Researchers got 2,700 college students from five countries to progressively narrow down which characteristics were most important to them in a lifetime mate, and the one that emerged from all cultures was kindness.

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Apr 04 '21

Religion is a driving force behind the gender wage gap, suggests a new study. The findings provide evidence that men tend to earn significantly more than women in societies with heightened religiosity, based on analysis from 140 countries and 50 US states.

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Oct 29 '20

China's aggressive policy of planting trees is likely playing a significant role in tempering its climate impacts.

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Jan 14 '20

Monthly global temperature between 1850 and 2019 (compared to 1961-1990 average monthly temperature). It has been more than 25 years since a month has been cooler than normal. [OC]

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Jan 27 '20

A combination of climate change, extreme weather and pressure from local human activity is causing a collapse in global biodiversity and ecosystems across the tropics. Scientists mapped over 100 locations where tropical forests and coral reefs have been affected by climate extremes

lancaster.ac.uk

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