Woman accused of hitting child with car claims she was trying to run over someone else
“Time Slows Down Whenever You Are Around” for Women but Not for Men
My favorite line from this 9 page long paper (citing another study): "greater gender diversity in boards leads to excessive monitoring of executives." P. 5. Monitoring of executives is what boards are supposed to do. So the problem is that women directors do their jobs. [Richard W. Painter]
Females were less likely than males to approach a person in public to obtain drugs through cash and noncash transactions. [...] Females were more likely than males to acquire drugs through sex. [Gender Differences in Drug Market Activities | PDF]
The most widespread use of augmented reality isn’t in gaming: it’s the face filters on social media. The result? A mass experiment on girls and young women. [Technology Rreview]
Woman gets pregnant while already pregnant
Swiss robots use UV light to zap viruses aboard passenger planes
"Ambiguous Objects" that change their appearances in a mirror
The top 1% of Americans have taken $50 trillion from the bottom 90% ... over the past several decades. This is not some back-of-the-napkin approximation.
First GMO Mosquitoes to Be Released In the Florida Keys
Acting Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Allison Lee, for example, has been very active. She has returned power to senior enforcement staff, who had it stripped from them in 2017, to open probes without seeking senior approvals, and has reversed a 2019 policy that critics said made it too easy for companies that broke the rules to continue with business as usual.
When BitClout arrived on the internet last month, it befuddled much of the cryptocurrency world. That was not least because the company, which describes itself as “not a company,” but a “new type of social network” — a sort of bitcoin-meets-Twitter — had ripped off some 15,000 profiles of famous people and influencers from actual Twitter and opened accounts in their names without their permission. [...] Perhaps the most suspicious part, though, to many outsiders, was the insistence by BitClout’s founders that they themselves remain anonymous [...] And yet, BitClout’s backers have poured more than $100 million into it.]
The FBI has arrested a Texas man who planned to blow up one of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in an attempt to “kill of about 70% of the internet.”
Are You Confused by Scientific Jargon? So Are Scientists -- papers containing higher proportions of jargon in their titles and abstracts were cited less frequently by other researchers [...] Jargon doesn’t always associate with negative outcomes [...] abstracts that contained fewer common words tended to garner more grant funding [NY Times]
For two decades, from its genesis in the mid-nineties, Vice Media branded itself in the image of the dispossessed. The earliest issues of its magazine, originally called the Voice of Montreal, were supported by a Canadian welfare grant and copublished by a Haitian nonprofit. But by the summer of 2017, two of its founders—Suroosh Alvi and Shane Smith—had traded government funding for private investment and dropped their titular claim to communal representation with the jettison of a single vowel: the Voice became Vice. The company received multimillion-dollar investments from Rupert Murdoch, owner of the Wall Street Journal and Fox News, but still self-described as “countercultural.” [...] Outwardly, Vice aimed to preserve its brand by cultivating an ethos of unconventionality and titillation. Internally, however, the culture was troubled—a problem not only of self-presentation, but also of management. Upon their hire, employees were asked to sign a “non-traditional workplace agreement” that contractually obliged them to feel at ease. “Although it is possible that some of the text, images and information I will be exposed to in the course of my employment with VICE may be considered by some to be offensive, indecent, violent or disturbing,” read the agreement, “I do not find such text, images or information or the workplace environment at VICE to be offensive, indecent, violent or disturbing.” [CJR]
Legends and science of bottomless pits, bogs, and lakes via things magazine
Humans can read the heart rate of others when looking at their face
We finally know how the FBI unlocked the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone -- Too bad it cost $900,000 and led to nothing
How America’s surveillance networks helped the FBI catch the Capitol mob -- Installed on thousands of streetlights, speed cameras, toll booths, police cars and tow trucks across the United States, the scanners record every passing vehicle into databases run by contractors such as Vigilant Systems, which reports that it has recorded 5 billion license plate locations nationwide. In Maryland alone, government and police scanners captured more than 500 million plates last year, state data shows. [...] Agents got a D.C. judge to issue a “ping order” for his cellphone, which had been registered with T-Mobile under the name of Superman’s alter ego, Clark Kent, the affidavit said. That ping order allegedly pinpointed Alam’s location to Room 17 of the Penn Amish Motel in rural Pennsylvania. FBI agents arrested him there the next day.
Twitter won’t let federal archivists host Trump’s tweets on Twitter
France cuts two nuclear-powered submarines in half to make one new one
STDs reach all-time high for 6th consecutive year
New study detects lottery-like behavior in cryptocurrency markets
Some of the World’s Top Artists Are Trying Their Hand at NFTs. The World’s Top Galleries Are a Bit More Skeptical.
In 1997, David Bowie issued "bonds" that enabled their holders to earn a percentage of royalties from his back-catalog for the next ten years. An owner of a $1000 "Bowie Bond" would receive a 7.9% coupon each year. Prudential Insurance bought the first batch for $55 million. At the outset, these securities seemed like a safe investment. Bowie's songs were played regularly on the radio, and his albums were selling well, even decades after they were published. Royalties from his work generated a steady income stream that was likely to continue. Bowie Bonds received a triple-A rating from Moodys, indicating they were as safe as U.S. government bonds. But as online music sharing grew in popularity, Bowie's album sales declined, and the bonds started to trade at a discount. [Dror Poleg]
Supervising cryptoassets for anti-money laundering [PDF]
CEO of a top bitcoin exchange warns a crackdown on cryptocurrencies may be coming
Interested in alternative investments but don’t know where to start?
Now, all of those people who were tweeting and Clubhousing about NFTs are on to the next: DAOs. Launched on April 30, 2016, The DAO was an early Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and venture capital fund.
Facebook shorted video creators thousands of dollars in ad revenue. Due to a ‘technical issue.’
Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS
What happens to a tree when it dies?
into the woods to cut down trees via things magazine
My Bloody Valentine is working on two new albums
New drug to regenerate lost teeth
We theorize that reconnaissance satellites have revolutionized the use of information gleaned from spying in ways that discourage states from engaging in serious conflicts with one another. We find that when either the potential aggressor or target in a dyad possess reconnaissance satellites, they are significantly less likely to become involved in serious militarized interstate disputes.
Venomous people could become a reality, scientists say
Scientists built a perfectly self-replicating synthetic cell
Scientists Get Closer To Redefining The Length Of A Second -- The worldwide standard atomic clocks have for decades been based on cesium atoms — which tick about 9 billion times per second. But newer atomic clocks based on other elements tick much faster [and] are 100 times more accurate than the cesium clock.
Even before the pandemic, Americans were already flushing far too many wipes into the sewer system. After a year of staying at home, the pipe-clogging problem has gotten worse.
Nearly 500 bee species are thriving in a small patch of US desert -- There are about 20,000 known species of bee on the planet, and nowhere else is this diversity more concentrated than in southern Arizona along the US-Mexico border. Hundreds of bee species can be found in a patch of desert there about the size of Heathrow airport, meaning it has the world’s densest aggregation of bee species yet measured.
We identified 110 shades from 73 products that contained the word “nude” in the name. [...] Roughly 40% of beauty brands use a sequential numbering system to organize their foundation shades. Yet only 4 out of those 130 products ordered their shades from dark to light.
“There was no history of my ever purchasing it, or ever owning it,” said one confused NFT buyer. “Now there’s nothing. My money’s gone.” People's Expensive NFTs Keep Vanishing.
Completed in nine days, massive hospital opens in London -- Thanks to a herculean collaborative effort carried out by the National Health Service (NHS), the British Armed Forces, the Royal Engineers, the facilities management team at ExCeL London, private contractors, and international architecture firm BDP, the 1-million-square-foot convention center in the docklands of East London has been transformed in just over a week into what’s not only the largest hospital in the United Kingdom but, per CNBC, the largest critical care unit in the world. [Thanks Tim]
Children now playing 'huge role' in spread of COVID-19 variant -- "We're not going to have nearly enough (vaccine doses) in the next 6 to 8 weeks to get through this surge"
Doctors Forgot to Warn People With Breasts That the Covid Vaccine Could Affect Their Next Mammogram
Known as the “torpedo,” the remotely controlled submarine would use magnets to attach to the bottom of cargo ships. The operator could later detach the drone, which would send a GPS signal with its location. Then, prosecutors allege, the trafficking ring would send a fishing boat to meet the submarine about 100 miles off the coast of Europe and collect the cocaine.
How long would it take to walk around the moon?
MARCH (PARKING) MADNESS: Welcome to the Finals — the 114th vs. the 34th
Bill Hwang Had $20 Billion, Then Lost It All in Two Days
This man is looking for the friends who shipped him overseas in a crate in 1965
Experiments with particles known as muons suggest that there are forms of matter and energy vital to the nature and evolution of the cosmos that are not yet known to science. [NY Times | Quanta]
Can Blood from Young People Slow Aging? Silicon Valley Has Bet Billions It Will
Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding -- Researchers believe a factor is a chemical used in drycleaning and household products such as shoe polishes and carpet cleaners in the US
People tend to assign higher attractiveness to an individual viewed from the back than head on. This tendency is pronounced when males rate the attractiveness of women.
A series of problem-solving experiments reveal that people are more likely to consider solutions that add features than solutions that remove them, even when removing features is more efficient.
The real reason why the Salvator Mundi didn't make it into the Louvre's Leonardo show
100 Greatest Korean Films Ever
Onfim was a boy who lived in Novgorod in present day Russia in the 13th century. He left his notes and homework exercises scratched in soft birch bark which was preserved in the clay soil of Novgorod.
In 1930, engineers accomplished something remarkable: they rotated an 8-story, 11,000 ton building a full 90 degrees