In the spring of this year, only 43% of eleventh graders were thinking about going to universities, a year earlier they were 48%, and in 2010 - 80%. How many of the current 43% will make their dream come true and pass rigorous university selection? It is good if at least two thirds or 70% (approximate statistics of past years). Is this a lot, considering that more than half give up the struggle for higher education in the ninth grade? It was not possible to find exact statistics for 2021, but, according to data from different regions, it can be assumed that this summer, after nine years of schooling, from 55 to 60% of children left school. A certain number of children cease to be schoolchildren after grade 8. Roughly speaking, out of 100 schoolchildren, only 40 go to the tenth, out of these 40, only 17 (43%) decided to enter a university, of these 17, 12 people (70%) will enroll. And someone else will leave the race after the next session, someone will not be able to pay - let's round the number of lucky ones to 10.

10 out of 100 people will be able to get university degree in Russia in the coming years. And not all ofuniversities are good. And most are not free. Ten out of a hundred!

In several recent papers the sex difference in regret predicted by sexual strategies theory has been supported: men more than women report regret passing up short-term sexual opportunities (inaction regret), while women regret having had sexual encounters (action regret). However, the adaptive function of regret, to improve future behavioral choices, has not been tested. In this first longitudinal test of behavioral change following regret, we consider whether regret actually results in adaptive shifts of behavior: will men who regret passing up sex engage in more short-term sex following regret? Will women who regret short-term encounters either choose better quality partners, reduce number of one-night stands or shift their strategy to long-term relationships? Across two waves (NT1 = 399, 65.4% women and NT2 = 222, 66.2% women) students responded to questions about casual sex action regret and inaction regret, along with possible outcomes, intrapersonal traits, and concurrent contextual predictors. There was no clear evidence for the proposed functional shifts in sexual behavior. Casual sex regret was associated with respondent sex and stable individual differences, such as sociosexual attitudes, regret processing and metacognitions, but the effect of these predictors were not consistent across the two waves. Among the tested concurrent contextual predictors, sexual disgust was the most consistent across waves. Regret is considered a gauge of the value and quality of the short-term sexual encounter. However, tentatively we conclude that after this first test of function using longitudinal data, we find no evidence of a mating strategy shifting effect following sexual regret.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474704921998333#

According to the Epic-Apple case ruling, revenues from gaming applications account for about 70% of all App Store revenues. The court stated that less than 10% of the app store's users generate that 70% of the revenue. Plus, over 80% of all accounts generate no revenue for Apple at all, and 80% of all apps in the App Store are free.

And note that around 90% of gaming revenues are generated by games made by large or huge companies.

Over the past months, users have reported several times about blocking Xiaomi smartphones in a particular region, but since last week, the number of blocks has increased significantly.

Restricted users report that the devices display a message: “It is Xiaomi policy that the product is not sold in the territory where you tried to activate it. For more information, please contact the retailer directly. "

At the moment, there is no complete list of countries and regions that have problems using Xiaomi devices. It is only known that problems arise among users in Cuba, Syria, Iran, North Korea and Sudan, as well as in Crimea.

Cem Bulut, a professor at the SLK Clinics in Heilbronn in Germany, and colleagues, won the medicine prize for research that suggests sex with orgasm is an effective nasal decongestant. Having developed suspicions based on “self-observation”, Bulut recruited a group of co-workers to investigate.

The obliging couples were trained with a device to measure their nasal airflow before sex, immediately after sexual climax and at regular time points thereafter. According to the team’s report, sex was as effective at clearing blocked noses, for an hour at least, as commercial decongestants, though Bulut concedes he did not get firm data from everyone. “I think some people couldn’t focus on the device,” he said. How sex might unblock the nose is not entirely clear, but Bulut sees a number of factors in play. “I think it’s a mixture of excitement, physical exercise, and hormonal changes that come with orgasm,” he said.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0145561320981441

China plans to become independent in components and semiconductors industry. Therefore, by 2025, the PRC is going to launch its own production of electronic components, and this work is already underway.

Over five years, the country will allocate $ 1.4 trillion (this is not a typo) for the needs of the electronic components industry. The state will not directly build factories and plants, instead, funds are allocated to Chinese specialized companies under the strict control of officials.

It is already known that the funds will be received by Alibaba Group, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, SenseTime Group Ltd. and a number of other high-tech companies. The main task set before them is to reduce the dependence of the electronic industry in China on other countries, mainly the United States. This was announced at the launch of the Made in China 2025 program. This year, China will allocate totally about $563 billion.

In mid-August, the Chinese government released data on the volume of semiconductor chips produced in the country. As it turned out, this figure grew by 41.3% over the year. And the country continues to increase production volumes.

Huh.

If you have a dream, never give up believing in your dream, living your dream, and doing something everyday to make that dream happen, but remember, no matter who you are, no matter how hard you work, or how good you think you are at what you do, there will always be an Asian who takes it to the next level.

Ryan Hayashi