Nicholas A. Christakis

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Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net

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Studying how El Salvador’s 2022 State of Exception, which ended two decades of gang territorial control, reshaped Salvadoran society, from Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, Nikita Melnikov, and María Micaela Sviatschi www.nber.org/papers/w35866

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Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

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Casey Harrell, paralyzed by ALS, has logged over 3,800 hours using a brain-computer interface at home — far beyond what any previous user has achieved — communicating with 99% accuracy across a 125,000-word vocabulary.

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Wonderful science! Documentation of 597 wooden imprints and charred wood remains from 62-40kya, identifying tools, weapons, domestic artifacts, and structural elements — including wooden spears, pointed sticks, trays/tripods. This shows the importance of wood in Neanderthal technology.

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Edward Wright baptized #OTD 1561. In 1599 he proposes the median as a measure of central tendency & methods of variance estimation for navigational application. He is also the first (& so far only) Fellow of Caius College Cambridge to be granted sabbatical leave to be a pirate.

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In heterogeneous system of AI agents, when agents disagree, who persuades whom? We found: 1) Models easily influence each other 2) Model size/certainty doesn't imply resistance to influence 3) Opinion shift is determined mostly by the resistance of the hearer. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2610.03095

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