It's #TwitterBookLaunch day. The wine has been unscrewed, the prawns de-veined for the most part, and its time to celebrate twenty brilliant books published during lockdown. There'll be 2 parts to the thread but please scroll through, share and buy books if you can. So -
JOIN US FOR ELEVENSES!
— Elliott & Thompson (@eandtbooks) January 27, 2021
We're launching @huma_qureshi_uk's amazing memoir, #HowWeMet
*When?
THURSDAY: 11AM
*Where?
On IGTV @humaqureshiwriter & @elliottandthompson
* What?
HUMA WILL BE ANSWERING READER'S QUESTIONS IN CONVERSATION WITH @SaimaMir
BYO cup of tea / biscuits pic.twitter.com/cPlHbC5933
https://t.co/S9tcuFMjHw
Congratulations to @colette_snowden
— Bluemoose Books (@Ofmooseandmen) January 28, 2021
Today we publish - Captain Jesus.
Signed copies are available from:@ChorltonBkshop
And you can order from@BookCornerHX @drakebookshop @ForumBooks @IndieBookshopUK @LittleToller @Bookishcrick @GoldenHareBooks pic.twitter.com/esG2yvcOcq
https://t.co/RZvGCkIBWV
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For three years I have wanted to write an article on moral panics. I have collected anecdotes and similarities between today\u2019s moral panic and those of the past - particularly the Satanic Panic of the 80s.
— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) September 29, 2018
This is my finished product: https://t.co/otcM1uuUDk
The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.
1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!
2) "Repressed memory" syndrome
3) Facilitated Communication [FC]
All 3 led to massive abuse.
"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.
Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.
FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.
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1. IQ is one of the most heritable psychological traits – that is, individual differences in IQ are strongly associated with individual differences in genes (at least in fairly typical modern environments). https://t.co/3XxzW9bxLE

2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less. https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n

3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N ≈ 4 million)
(Note that the Flynn effect shows that IQ isn't 100% genetic; it doesn't show that it's 100% environmental.)

4. IQ predicts many important real world outcomes.
For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have – much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3

5. Higher IQ is associated with a lower risk of death from most causes, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, most forms of cancer, homicide, suicide, and accident. https://t.co/PJjGNyeQRA (N = 728,160)
