Criminal Profiling Doesn’t Work, Exoplanets’ Magma Oceans Eat Their Skies, and Superhuman Red Blood Cells for Drug Delivery

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🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Learn about why criminal profiling doesn’t seem to work in real life; planets with oceans of molten rock that basically eat the sky; and superhuman red blood cells that could be used to deliver life-saving drugs.

Criminal Profiling Probably Doesn’t Work by Kelsey Donk

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Matthews, D. (2018, November 12). Criminal Minds, Mindhunter: criminal profiling doesn’t work. Vox; Vox. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/11/12/18044688/criminal-profilers-mindhunter-hannibal-criminal-minds
Gladwell, M. (2007, November 4). Dangerous Minds. The New Yorker; The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/11/12/dangerous-minds
Snook, B., Cullen, R. M., Bennell, C., Taylor, P. J., & Gendreau, P. (2008). The Criminal Profiling Illusion. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 35(10), 1257–1276. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854808321528
Snook, B., Eastwood, J., Gendreau, P., Goggin, C., & Cullen, R. M. (2007). Taking Stock of Criminal Profiling. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34(4), 437–453. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854806296925

Some Exoplanets’ Magma Oceans Eat Their Skies by Grant Currin

Mission overview. (2011). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/overview/index.html
Lerner-Chicago, L. (2019, December 27). Exoplanets with magma oceans may “eat” their own skies - Futurity. Futurity. https://www.futurity.org/exoplanets-magma-oceans-2241842/
Kite, E. S., Bruce Fegley Jr., Schaefer, L., & Ford, E. B. (2019). Superabundance of Exoplanet Sub-Neptunes Explained by Fugacity Crisis. The Astrophysical Journal, 887(2), L33. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab59d9 / https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02701.pdf

Superhuman Red Blood Cells for Drug Delivery by Cameron Duke

Special delivery: McMaster physicists design ‘super-human’ red blood cells to deliver drugs to specific targets within the body. (2020). Mcmaster.Ca. https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/special-delivery-mcmaster-physicists-design-super-human-red-blood-cells-to-deliver-drugs-to-specific-targets-within-the-body/
Himbert, S., Blacker, M. J., Kihm, A., Pauli, Q., Khondker, A., Yang, K., Sinjari, S., Johnson, M., Juhasz, J., Wagner, C., Stöver, H. D. H., & Rheinstädter, M. C. (2020). Hybrid Erythrocyte Liposomes: Functionalized Red Blood Cell Membranes for Molecule Encapsulation. Advanced Biosystems, 1900185. https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.201900185

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:05.8	I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about why criminal profiling doesn't seem to work in real life.
0:11.9	Planets with oceans of molten rock that basically eat the sky,
0:16.0	and superhuman red blood cells that could be used to deliver life-saving drugs.
0:20.6	Let's satisfy some curiosity. If you have fantasies of being like a character on mind hunter or a criminal minds,
0:27.0	we have bad news for you.
0:29.0	It turns out that criminal profiling is mostly fiction.
0:33.0	Criminal profiling, as in the idea that you can peek at a crime scene and know what the perpetrator looks like and how they think.
0:40.0	In real life, it just doesn't appear to work.
0:43.4	The whole idea with this started with the mad bomber, who was a real life criminal who planted bombs
0:48.9	all over New York City in the 1940s and 50s.
0:52.2	A psychiatrist, the first criminal profiler, gave police a description of the bomber based on the crimes.
0:58.0	He predicted the bomber was an unmarried man who wore buttoned double-breasted suits.
1:04.0	And he was.
1:05.4	But that could have been a lucky guess.
1:07.6	Lots of men wore double-breasted suits in those days.
1:10.4	I wore one every day.
1:11.6	To work. You're welcome for dressing up by the way.
1:15.4	And most of the other predictions by that psychiatrist were either wildly off base or
1:19.9	frankly worthless to investigators.
1:23.2	And that psychiatrist wasn't the only one with faulty guesses.
1:26.4	One recent study found that expert criminal profilers
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