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Claire Lehmann

@clairlemon

The Male vs Female Brain: Key Differences Females: Superior episodic memory, language abilities, emotional processing, social cognition. Optimised for language, social information, emotional experiences. Males: Better spatial abilities, decision-making in risk, object feature processing. Optimised for object analysis, spatial navigation, social hierarchy cognition. Takeaway: Interventions to get more women in STEM fields that are object-focused & not people-focused are probably a waste of time.

'The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.' P. J. O’Rourke

'I went in fully expecting to be disappointed, and in that respect at least, the film did not disappoint.' Christian Roy on the film 'Napoleon' directed by Ridley Scott.

'Nobody ever says how beautiful Moscow is. Yet I have never lived anywhere so full of myth and sinister glamour. That toothless old woman in black, standing in the December slush at the street corner with a goose for sale, might equally well sell you a handful of magic beans — and who knows what they might grow into. In May, the evening sky is so lovely you feel you could see all the way through to the end of the universe.' Peter Hitchens

Pope Francis 'God is not afraid of new things'

'Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.' (Benjamin Disraeli)