Lauri Nummenmaa
@LNummenmaa
Molecular neuroscientist. PET Shop Boy and emotion researcher. CEO for Nummenmaa Oy. Professional science writer and speaker. Porsche aficionado. Trumpet geek.
How do we organize the contents of our consciousness? Check the new map of human feeling space in @PNASNews (open access)! Another nice one with @aivoaalto and @eglerean! pnas.org/content/early/…
Suomi haluaa itsepintaisesti kansalaistensa pysyvän köyhinä. Perintöveron poisto olisi helppo ja oikeudenmukainen tapa auttaa pääomia kertymään ja yksilöitä ja sukuja vaurastumaan, mutta jostain syystä helpot ja toimivat ratkaisut eivät kelpaa poliitikoille 👇
Verottavan perinnön alaraja lapselle vuonna 2020 (USD): 🇺🇸 11 580 000 🇩🇪 456 879 🇫🇮 22 844 🇸🇪 ja 🇪🇪 selviävät kokonaan ilman perintöveroa. Lähde: OECD
Who has more diverse views - political left or right? Turns out it's right and by a sizeable margin: Attitude networks reveal narrowly accepted opinion space in democrats, while republicans have much greater viewpoint diversity bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bj…
Slavery was standard practice throughout Earth until it was almost entirely ended principally by Anglo-American forces in the 19th and 20th centuries. Slavery still exists in some parts of the world btw. I’m not suggesting Britain was purely angelic, but, nonetheless, this is…
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An appalling medical experiment has been performed on troubled young people, all in service of an ideology that continues to do widespread societal harm. city-journal.org/article/cross-…
“Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose socialism.” — Margaret Thatcher
Yet another unbearable personality trait to complement psychopathy, machiavellianism, and narcissism 👇
Psychologists have identified a personality trait they call the Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood. It reflects a chronic sense of being wronged, and includes four key components: Need for recognition; moral elitism; lack of empathy; and rumination [Link below.]
Sometime back in 2021 in Gaza, a handful of top Hamas officials decided to begin planning for a direct attack on Israel. Four years later, their organization barely exists, Gaza is in ruins, Hezbollah has been crippled, Syria has new leadership friendlier to the West, and Iran's…
In eight days, the United States and Israel eliminated Iran’s nuclear capabilities with minimal civilian casualties. One of the greatest military achievements ever.
Yhteiseen kassaan saa enemmän ja oikeudenmukaisemmin rahaa kiihdyttämällä taloudellista toimeliaisuutta kuin nostamalla veroja. Sumuttavat vastavaikuttajat väittävät toisin. Kyytiläiset kiukuttelevat yliraskaasti lastatun linja-auton alitehoisen moottorin hyytymistä ylämäessä.
This example of total *loosening* rather than tightening the laws on child sexual abuse is so disturbing that you have to check Google / GPT / Grok multiple times to believe it is true. Unfortunately it is.
Before 1979, the legal age for marriage in Iran was strictly 18 years old. After the 1979 revolution, it became 13 for girls and in some cases 9 with "fatherly consent". My anger with this regime goes far deeper than the headscarf.
‘The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.’ Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is spot on. I need peace and to rejoice in my thoughts and imagination, and sometimes wonder whether the people loving the noisy hellscapes have any kind of inner world to focus on at all. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Perintötilasto antaa synkän kuvan Suomen taloudesta. Edes *rikkain* prosentti ei jätä perintöä kuin kolmen henkilöauton (Tesla Model S) verran, ja 99% kansasta ei saa kasaan edes kolmasosaa autosta. Mailman 6. korkein kokonaisveroaste ei paljon anna armoa yle.fi/a/74-20163175
This is the wonderful feature of the free markets: money and productivity can go wherever they are respected. Too bad many European governments still fail to understand this, and instead try to penalise for success, driving the productive forces out of their countries.
The wealthy don't protest. They exit. 10,800 millionaires left the UK in 2024 - a 157% surge from 2023. But if you’re leaving and want to match London's infrastructure and have a European lifestyle... Where do you go? Here's my realistic list of alternatives in 2025:
Independent of the "Gaines-Biles Feud," according to our polling, the vast majority of Americans do not support men who identify as women competing in women's sports. The group most likely to support this are very liberal young women but, even among them, the majority do not.