Two-thirds of the world's young people never gain the basic skills a modern economy needs. In rich countries, 1 in 4 falls short.
We keep blaming schools. New research by David C. Geary and Lewis G. Halsey says the real problem starts long before a child ever walks into one. 🧵
Abhishek Saha put it to Nathan Cofnas directly: is he on the autism spectrum?
Saha wrote in Quillette in 2025:
"Some people I spoke to suggested that part of Cofnas’s trouble is social: he lacks the instincts to judge what he should or shouldn’t say, and may be on the autism spectrum. When I put this to him, he agreed that his social intelligence is below average—“When I was a kid, I couldn’t follow rules. I had no idea what people wanted me to do, and I was constantly in trouble”—but he does not think he is autistic. He understands why his work is controversial, but maintains that the hereditarian taboo must be faced. As Sir Simon Baron-Cohen has written in his book The Pattern Seekers, autistic people—and those who share their systemising traits—have often been quiet architects of human progress, from the first stone tools to today’s code, sometimes at great personal cost."
quillette.com/2025/10/16/a-h…
Finnish refrigerated truck draws attention at Khamenei’s funeral
Khamenei’s coffin was transported in the refrigerated truck, which had recently been used to transport vegetables, fruit, pork, beef and other food products for the Finnish supermarket chain Kesko.
The truck was sold in Iraq as “fully equipped and defect-free” and was later acquired by the Iraqi Army.
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