inherited traits child environment development

A child's genes can help shape the environment they grow up in

Inherited traits can affect which experiences a child has. They can change how other people respond to the child and which activities the child chooses. This makes it difficult to separate the effects of genes from the effects of the environment.

Alaska has no state income tax partly because of oil revenue

Alaska does not levy a state individual income tax or a statewide general sales tax. Revenue from oil production has historically helped finance state government instead. That arrangement offers residents an unusual tax structure but exposes public finances to swings in oil prices and production. A resource-rich state can become highly dependent on one industry.

An AI learned to treat rulers in photos as a sign of cancer

A system trained to recognize skin cancer noticed that dangerous-looking spots were often photographed next to rulers for scale. Instead of relying only on the skin itself, it learned that seeing a ruler was a clue that cancer might be present.

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A child's genes can help shape the environment they grow up in

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