Using 2.4 million Danish house sales, economists found modern giant wind turbines lower nearby home prices by up to 12%. Homes hit by shadow flicker from the rotor blades lose a further 8.1%.

An analysis of more than 320 Reddit comments found people collect sports cards for seven reasons: learning, identifying with athletes, investment, addiction, social connection, entertainment and escape from stress.

Archival studies found abstract nouns are more often grammatically feminine in seven of nine Indo-European languages, and experiments showed people picture these concepts as female and implicitly link abstract ideas with women.

Across 1,041 hours of toy-linked shows and films, words for sweets came up 8.37 times as often in programs aimed at girls as in those aimed at boys, and about five times as often in shows rated for children six and under.

In three studies with 2,041 people in the US, Singapore and India, 69% of those recalling karma in their own lives described a reward, but only 18% of those recalling someone else's karma did.

In four studies with 604 children aged 4 to 9 and 582 adults, about 80% chose a craft game where their creation was kept over one where it was taken apart. Knowing work would be saved pushed most people to build rather than take the easy option.

In a survey experiment with 1,012 Americans, a foreign leader's angry threat raised the estimated chance of an attack by 14.6 percentage points over a calm one, and historical crisis data show calm threats often fail.