Archive for November, 2019
The Global Fertility Crash
November 1st, 2019There’s a fascinating interactive chart at the link. Via: Bloomberg: At least two children per woman—that’s what’s needed to ensure a stable population from generation to generation. In the 1960s, the fertility rate was five live births per woman. By 2017 it had fallen to 2.43, close to that critical threshold.
Researchers Are Working on Ways to Make Intolerable Memories Bearable
November 1st, 2019Via: National Post: The 60 souls that signed on for Dr. Alain Brunet’s memory manipulation study were united by something they would rather not remember. The trauma of betrayal. For some, it was infidelity and for others, a brutal, unanticipated abandonment. “It was like, ‘I’m leaving you. Goodbye,” the McGill University associate professor of psychiatry […]
