Blamed on “too many parts” – Tesla had tried to reassure investors that it was only suffering from teething troubles as it ramps up production of the X and was not experiencing any deeper manufacturing failure or weakness in demand. However, it indicated that it would miss its target of 80,000-90,000 vehicle deliveries for the year as a whole.
This Is Awkward
Functional MRI (fMRI) is 25 years old, yet surprisingly its most common statistical methods have not been validated using real data. Here, we used resting-state fMRI data from 499 healthy controls to conduct 3 million task group analyses. Using this null data with different experimental designs, we estimate the incidence of significant results. In theory, we should find 5% false positives (for a significance threshold of 5%), but instead we found that the most common software packages for fMRI analysis (SPM, FSL, AFNI) can result in false-positive rates of up to 70%. These results question the validity of some 40,000 fMRI studies and may have a large impact on the interpretation of neuroimaging results.
Oops.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Some of the earliest humans to inhabit America came from Europe according to a new book Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America’s Clovis Culture. The book puts forward a compelling case for people from northern Spain traveling to America by boat, following the edge of a sea ice shelf that connected Europe and America during the last Ice Age, 14,000 to 25,000 years ago.
“Across Atlantic Ice : The Origin of America’s Clovis Culture” Across Atlantic Ice is the result of more than a decade’s research by leading archaeologists Bruce Bradley of the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, and Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Through archaeological evidence, they turn the long-held theory of the origins of New World populations on its head.
Reader Tips
On July 5th, 1930, daredevil George Stathakis took on the mighty Niagara Falls in a reinforced barrel, with his pet turtle as co-pilot.
Your tip for the evening: don’t do this.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
🆘‼🐸😷😆 Today's governing elite in the Consciousness extension. pic.twitter.com/8KKYUS19yY
— Onlinemagazin (@OnlineMagazin) July 3, 2016
The Left’s Uncomfortable Relationship with Democracy
A few days ago I had dinner with some German ex-pats in Silicon Valley. The topic of Brexit arose and one woman was adamant that this vote wasn’t right. A fellow chimed in that there’s now a petition to have another vote to overturn the first one.
Elections have consequences. So do referendums. It seems that whenever Left-of-Centre folks (Democrats, Liberals, ‘Remain’ supporters) don’t get their way then they immediately throw out multiple disparagement cards about those who voted differently than them: Racists, Sexists, Idiots, Ignoramuses, etc. One wonders if they have any sense of self-awareness to realize how similar they sound to spoiled children.
Rex Murphy recently shared his thoughts on the subject:
Happy Ramadan!
Suicide bombing reported outside the Prophet's Mosque in Saudi city of Medina, one of Islam's holiest sites https://t.co/tKBnCY8aIY
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 4, 2016
A Job Well Done
Nigel Farage has resigned: “During the referendum I said I wanted my country back. Now I want my life back.”
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Do tell. Just 14% of the 1,027 adults surveyed thought a reason CEOs were getting more political was that they wanted to “do what is right for society.”
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Kafir style: In the aftermath of last year’s asylum-related sexual attacks at the “We Are Stockholm” youth festival, the Swedish police are now launching a new campaign. Officers will give out bracelets with the text “Do not molest me” to girls attending this year’s festival, of according to Dan Eliasson, head of the country’s national police force.
God Bless America
A little tribute to our American friends:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Tried to buy a shirt & make a donation. I was refused service at the @BLM_TO booth at @PrideToronto because I'm white @CBCToronto @CBCNews
— SIMA XYN (@simaxyn) July 2, 2016
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Brexit already reaping rewards: Siemens is putting new wind power investment plans in the UK on hold due to uncertainty caused by last week’s Brexit vote, the Germany energy company has told the Guardian.
Reader Tips
Here’s to a safe and happy Fourth of July to our American readers everywhere.
(tips thread open)
It’s Probably Nothing
Outside Eli Wiesel's funeral I heard a huge explosion just now. Running into Central Park and found a young man with his left leg blown off
— Sarah Maslin Nir (@SarahMaslinNir) July 3, 2016
Just a “homemade device.” Seems to me there’s a name for those.
What Would We Do Without Peer Review?
This failure in economic literature is relevant to climate science because not only are the dynamics we’ve seen in economic science demonstrated similar to climate science, but also both fields have large influences on public policy — in part due to politicians confidence in peer reviewed literature.
Let Them Eat Yacht
DiCaprio flies his LA friends 6,000 miles around the world so they can listen to his speech on GLOBAL WARMING
But You Mustn’t Call It A Con
Kevin D Williamson on work and earnings:
The median salary for a women’s-studies professor is more than a hundred grand a year. The average hourly earnings for a graduate with a women’s-studies degree? Eleven bucks an hour, well less than you’d make working the car wash at a Buc-ee’s convenience store.
Slippery Slope, Schlippery Slope
Coming soon to a Canadian courtroom near you: Catholic Nursing Home Successfully Sued for Refusing Euthanasia.
Is Socialism for Whites Only?
“Regardless, this willing “dupiness” is necessary for a socialist economy to work. Everybody has to willingly value society more than themselves in order to work at the slave-like tax rates necessary to finance a communist/socialist state. The Swedes, Norwegians, Finns and Danes on the whole are more than willing to do this, while the Greeks, Russians, Venezuelans…and pretty much the rest of the world are not. This is why “sorta socialism” works best in Scandinavia…and pretty much nowhere else.”