Originally heard these numbers on a System Update episode a few days ago - good to see them in print: >Most Americans oppose Congress authorizing additional funding to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, as the public splits over whether the US has already done enough to assist Ukraine. >Overall, 55% say the US Congress should not authorize additional funding to support Ukraine vs. 45% who say Congress should authorize such funding. And 51% say that the US has already done enough to help Ukraine while 48% say it should do more. A poll conducted in the early days of the Russian invasion in late February 2022 found 62% who felt the US should have been doing more. >Partisan divisions have widened since that poll, too, with most Democrats and Republicans now on opposing sides of questions on the US role in Ukraine. It's absolutely the case that we are approaching a breaking point in the Ukraine war -- this counteroffensive was really what it was all about, IMO. If the Ukrainians made some progress, it would be a sign that there was hope and much reason for further assistance... But it is becoming more apparent that that isn't how it's going to go down. More support for the war effort potentially just means more death. #Ukraine #Russia #War https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/04/politics/cnn-poll-ukraine/index.html

>This study tested the greater male variability hypothesis in creative thinking with a Chinese student sample in Mainland China. The Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production (TCT-DP) was administered to 627 Chinese adolescent boys (n = 332) and girls (n = 295). Results using the boy/girl variance ratio (VR) generally supported the hypothesis that boys have greater variability than girls in creativity test performance. However, results using the boy/girl ratios from different regions of the creativity score distribution revealed a pattern of male superiority. While boys significantly outnumbered girls in the higher extremes, girls tended to outnumber boys in the central region and the lower extremes. Results from an analysis of the means lent further support to the findings of male superiority. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886913003036

>Music which contains drones and is rhythmically still or very slow, called "drone music",[2] can be found in many parts of the world, including bagpipe traditions, among them Scottish pibroch piping; didgeridoo music in Australia, South Indian classical Carnatic music and Hindustani classical music (both of which are accompanied almost invariably by the Tanpura, a plucked, four-string instrument which is only capable of playing a drone); the sustained tones found in the Japanese gagaku[9] classical tradition; possibly (disputed) in pre-polyphonic organum vocal music of late medieval Europe;[10] and the Byzantine chant's ison (or drone-singing, attested after the fifteenth century).[11] Repetition of tones, supposed to be in imitation of bagpipes,[12][13][14][15] is found in a wide variety of genres and musical forms.

Drone music - Wikipedia

Nice. I am in the process of mourning a death and cannot really abide by listening to conventionally structured music, yet I also need something to shut out the ambient sounds and increase concentration. I am still debating whether or not I should be doing even this, but it feels necessary and I have already gone a week without music.