The link to the research is in the second link in th OP.

If you look at the top dozen or so reasons cited for increasing marginal happiness, all but 2 go back to children and family. Decreasing human interaction, the drop in birth rates, cyber-loneliness, the bombarding of social media, increasing friction between what men look for in women and what women look for in men... (last not meant to exclude same sex, btw)

Being part of a family is so important, but fewer are obtaining it.

Just what we need, the government tracking one more thing. Just like their sweeping disregard of right to privacy ubder the guise of suppressing terror. I get that there is some rationale for this, but I fear the Chinese will find a way to subvert this and the only effect will be felt by law-abiding US citizens,

Not trying to earn anyone's ire, but this is indisputable fact. If climate activists want to make a profound impact on the future of humanity, they need to stick to fact and indisputable science, and not go back to scare tactics based on things that are simply not fact. I'm old and it is unlikely that climate change will significantly affect my life. I would like that to be true for all of you.

"real time" analytics with an AI twist. Lots of data, need to provide instant decisions. Used by military among other industries

Much worse conversationally than most other engines, imo. BTW, I think Grok achieves a nice balance between AI and "friend". And seems to change conversational behavior with fairly subtle cues.

A large part of this is 2nd (and 3rd) world raising their living conditions. Almost inescapable.

Approx 20% STEM
Approx 20% business
Rest non-stem.

Great research -- it was sure to get published, probably will be followed by several follow on pubs, and a real lack of value for the general population. /sarcasm
My personal experience:
1) Lower success rate (overall)
If you have a small number of seats in an entering class, as a faculty you are likely to be highly selective for all.
If you have many seats available, it is almost a sure thing that the selection process will be balkanized, with more seats filled by individual faculty members and relatively fewer by a rigorous selection process. In my experience, at least.

2) Studs and studettes (high achievers)
The larger the lab, the more money, prestige, and pubs. Very difficult for smaller progams to compete. Overall, the "very best" students will disproportionally go to the most recognized programs.

Nope. Govt is authorized to establish a postal service, not required. Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: "The Congress shall have Power... To establish Post Offices and post Roads;" common misundestanding, though.

Of all the comments, this is the most perceptive. Not just the brits, most of the EU countries have have similar problems -- their GDP numbers have increased staggeringly lower than the US. And their PM/ruling party is under increased pressure to find something (anyhing) positive of late.

I agree, it is the money and searching for a distraction.

Look, I know I am not winning any popularity contest -- but, a couple of points.

1) the original article was bs. You can't demonstrate the temperature is rising by looking at record temps in some "hot" cities. The very definition of a biased convenience sample. That is the reason I brought up the state highs, which look at "all" temperatures.

2) The fact that most (26) states have their record temperatures set in the 30's should give some pause to the whole "unprecedented" record temperature narrative. I guess that "record temperatures (if we don't look back before the 1940's)" isn't quite as powerful?

3) my fields are NOT climate-related. But it seems solar iridescence (as you cited in your reference) may not be as strong an argument as you think it does... "While both are related to solar activity, "solar iridescence" refers to a visual phenomenon created by the diffraction of sunlight through clouds, appearing as rainbow-like colors, while "sunspot activity" refers to the number and intensity of dark areas on the Sun's surface, which are directly linked to the Sun's magnetic field and indicate changes in solar radiation output, following an approximately 11-year cycle; essentially, solar iridescence is a visual effect on Earth due to sunlight interaction with the atmosphere, while sunspot activity is a measure of the Sun's own magnetic field". My reading of this is that sunspots are better correlated with solar output than iridescence. But, again, not my field.

4) I have no problem with the idea that rising CO2 can have an effect on global temps.

Many attribute these record highs to increased output from the sun during years of peak sunspot activity (like in '36 and '37). See Science, below...

Not trying to troll, just pointing out that we have not exceeded the records for most states, despite global warming. That could change --- global warming + high sunspot activity, but picking a bunch of cities that are hot is not good way to demonstrate (overall) pervasively high temps. A less biased way of looking at these temps is including all the temps -- in this case 50 subsets and looking at the max of those individual subsets.

for example -- https://www.science.org/doi/10...

26 of 50 states still have their highest recorded temperature from the 1930's. Most in 1936 or 1937. I see those state highs as probably a better surrogate for climate than a non-random selection of cities.

Sunspot cycle ~ 11 years. The cycle of that 11-year cycle is 80 - 90 years. So we are "due" for those kind of temps any year now.

Note this 90 year cycle is a little less active than the cycle in the mid 20th century.

The government is actively promoting EV sales, partially due to economics, partially due to national security.

1 - of course, china has almost a stranglehold on current production of many of the materials (lithium, rare earths...) used in EVs and solar production.

2- China is rightfully concerned with its vulnerability to petroleum blockades in the event of conflict. BUT, they have a metric-shit-load of coal.

So, incenting the manufacture and purchase of EVs, which can use both of these power sources, is a no-brainer for them.