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"I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century."
This newsletter is an exercise in exploring the intersection of Mind, Money & Machine to see what is spawns. Occasional personal observations.
Money
Mind
Psychological and Sociological Profile of Women Who Have Completed Elite Military Combat Training
More than 75 women have successfully graduated from the U.S. Army Ranger Course since the integration of women into elite military combat training. This study sought to identify the psychological characteristics and sociological variables that contributed to their motivation and success.
A guided interview and demographic and psychological questionnaires were used to assess characteristics of 13 women who successfully completed elite military combat training. Collectively, these women were college graduates and had well educated fathers, possessed high levels of grit and resiliency, and described themselves as self-competitive challenge seekers.
These women all had a strong male influence in their lives. The characteristics of these pioneer women may be unique from subsequent cohorts as female participation in elite military combat training becomes the norm and as attitudes and experiences change for graduates of female combat training over time.
Machine
Science confirms it: The best kimchi is made in traditional clay jars (onggi)
It turns out that the porosity of the onggi's walls help the most desired bacteria proliferate during the fermentation process, according to a recent paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. “We wanted to find the ‘secret sauce’ for how onggi make kimchi taste so good,” said co-author David Hu of Georgia Tech. “So we measured how the gases evolved while kimchi fermented inside the onggi—something no one had done before.”