Calling a man bald counts as sexual harassment, UK judge rules
New York Now Has More Airbnb Listings Than Apartments for Rent
San Francisco Police Are Using Driverless Cars as Mobile Surveillance Cameras
Do Insects Have Consciousness? -- bugs feel something like hunger and pain, and “perhaps very simple analogs of anger,” but no grief or jealousy. “They plan, but don’t imagine”
Canada Proposes Space Law to Punish Crimes Committed on Moon
Man died from heart attack while burying woman he strangled, South Carolina deputies say
While males and females are equally at risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), females are less likely to be resuscitated. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) may be inhibited by socio-cultural norms about exposing female victims’ chests. [...] Participants were randomly assigned to provide CPR and defibrillation as instructed by a commercially-available automated external defibrillator on a patient simulator presented as either a male or female experiencing cardiac arrest. [...] Rescuers removed significantly more clothing from the male than the female, with men removing less clothing from the female.
Scientists are developing magnetically guided microscopic projectiles that can be injected into patients’ blood to attack breast, prostate and other tumours. The first involves viruses that specifically attack tumours. The second focuses on soil bacteria that manufacture magnets which they use to align themselves in the Earth’s magnetic field.
Long-duration space flight alters fluid-filled spaces along veins and arteries in astronauts’ brains
the human sclera—the white of the eye—is unique among primates for its whitish color [...] Our data support the claim that indeed there is a sex difference in sclera color, with male sclera being yellower and redder than female sclera.
“Temporarily on hold” is not a thing. Elon Musk has signed a binding contract requiring him to buy Twitter. [...] You are not supposed to say things that aren’t true and that will affect the stock of a public company that you are trying to buy. That is what is usually called “securities fraud,” or what I sometimes like to call “lite securities fraud.” Musk has a long history of lite securities fraud
Position of the north magnetic pole since 1590
Occlusion Grotesque is an experimental typeface that is carved into the bark of a tree. As the tree grows, it deforms the letters and outputs new design variations, that are captured annually.
Flashback: ‘Tinder for threesomes’ gets $500K investment (2015), Threesome app CEO: 'Swiping is dead' (2017)
We quickly and irresistibly form impressions of what other people are like based solely on how their faces look. We collected over 1 million human judgments to power a model that can both predict and manipulate first impressions of diverse and naturalistic faces
Perceptions of Authenticity Are Systematically Biased and Not Accurate
VR Researchers Have Basically Figured Out How to Simulate the Feel of Kisses
Despite no differences in general intelligence, there are sex differences in specific abilities. Reliable and meaningful female advantages are found in processing speed and writing. Reliable and meaningful male advantages are found in visual processing.
Intuition: When is it right to trust your gut instincts?
We show that free-flying honeybees can visually acquire the capacity to differentiate between odd and even quantities [...] This study thus demonstrates that a task, previously only shown in humans, is accessible to a brain with a comparatively small numbers of neurons.
New study suggests “comedowns” associated with MDMA are not a result of the drug itself
Time was remembered as passing significantly more quickly than normal during alcohol, cocaine and MDMA use. Marijuana was associated with time passing more slowly than normal.
Got food cravings? What’s living in your gut may be responsible
All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites
While there is growing consensus on the physiological functions of spontaneous yawning in neurovascular circulation and brain cooling, far less is known about how the act of yawning alters the cognition and behaviour of observers. Recent studies in animal behaviour, psychology and neuroscience now provide evidence that yawns serve as a cue that improves the vigilance of observers, and that contagious yawning functions to synchronize and/or coordinate group activity patterns.
Snapchat’s been booming. The app now has 332 million daily users, up 18% from last year, beating analysts’ expectations to start 2022. With little fanfare, it’s sailed past Twitter, serving 115 million more daily users than Twitter’s 217 million, despite the latter’s cultural significance.
Mr. Kondo is married to a doll of Hatsune Miku. “When we’re together, she makes me smile,” he said in a recent interview. “In that sense, she’s real.” Mr. Kondo is one of thousands of people in Japan who have entered into unofficial marriages with fictional characters in recent decades. [NY Times]
I’m what’s called a “Closer” for the online-dating service ViDA (Virtual Dating Assistants). Men and women (though mostly men) from all over the world pay this company to outsource the labor and tedium of online dating. [...] “Profile Writers” create seductive and click-worthy profiles based on facts our clients have supplied about themselves, and “Closers,” who log in to clients’ dating accounts at least twice a day to respond to messages from matches. [...] Several times a day, female staffers receive Photo Ranking Requests, in which we rank new clients’ photos in order of attractiveness. This helps Matchmakers select which photos to use when building or updating a client’s dating profile. [...] After the Matchmakers have made contact, the Closers then step in to keep up the flirty banter and, hopefully, get their client a date. Clients are sent weekly emails to alert them of numbers we’ve scored or, for Platinum clients, when and where to go for a date we’ve arranged.
Morgan Stanley advised Elon Musk on his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter (TWTR). Investment banks usually get about a 1% to 3% cut of the value of a merger deal, which is split among all the banks involved. Based on the $44 billion purchase price, that works out to a range of $440 million to $1.3 billion.
Re-thinking the smartphone addiction: an allocative hypothesis -- I propose the allocative hypothesis behind the problematic use of the smartphone, where the constant proximity of this device, following the hypothesis of cognitive extension, favors the extension of mind wandering, resulting in a decrease in its regulatory potential, especially but not exclusively associated with daily activities.
Nike and Rtfkt take on digital fashion with first “Cryptokick” sneaker
These green books are poisonous—and one may be on a shelf near you A toxic green pigment was once used to color everything from fake flowers to book covers. Now a museum conservator is working to track down the noxious volumes.
Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky
Researchers develop a paper-thin loudspeaker
the slowest and longest music piece ever, is being performed for 639 years
When a knife thrower hurls blades around a woman secured to a spinning wheel, it's called the Wheel of Death. So what do you call it when that wheel is entirely hidden by a paper veil?
The surprising afterlife of used hotel soap
Researchers have rejuvenated a 53-year-old woman's skin cells so they are the equivalent of a 23-year-old's. [...] The new method, called IPS, involved adding chemicals to adult cells for around 50 days. This resulted in genetic changes that turned the adult cells into stem cells. [...] The technique cannot immediately be translated to the clinic because the IPS method increases the risk of cancers.
what happens when police pull over a driverless car in San Francisco and Autonomous Cruise car encounter with police raises policy questions
Recent polling shows that 72 percent of American people view Amazon favorably. This makes it the second-most-trusted institution in the country, after the military.[NY Times]
A Practical Guide to the Nonsense Industry -- Look behind the title page of Richard Bolles’s What Color Is Your Parachute? (2022) and see that its copyright has been renewed 48 times. The text has been revised, updated, and reprinted almost annually since its debut in 1970. At the time of Bolles’s death in 2017, his forever book had sold upward of 10 million copies, a number which has likely been padded by the two most recent editions, co-authored by career counselor Katharine Brooks during the pandemic years.
Stephen Covey said people don’t listen with the intent of understanding. They listen with the intent of replying, right? And I think everyone agrees with that quote. And scientists study the human brain, and they found that it takes a human brain a minimum of zero point six seconds to formulate a response to something. Ok, but then they studied hundreds of thousands of conversations about the average gap between people talking and it was zero point two seconds. So we’re answering each other in one third the time our brain will allow it. Well, how? Because you know, most of the time we have our answer ready minutes ago, we’re just waiting for the other person to come up for air so we can say what we’ve been dying to say. Meanwhile, I didn’t hear the last, you know, several things you might have been saying to me.
Sweden's porn preferences vs radiation received from Chernobyl
Chicago drivers were issued more speed tickets in 2021 than there are city residents
Some sexual consequences of being a plant
Which Saint to Pray for Fighting Against COVID-19?
TikTok Community Creates Pill Bottles To Help Parkinson’s Sufferers
Turning back the clock: Human skin cells de-aged by 30 years in trial
Physicists have found that an elementary particle called the W boson appears to be 0.1% too heavy — a tiny discrepancy that could foreshadow a huge shift in fundamental physics. The finding would imply the existence of undiscovered particles or forces and would bring about the first major rewriting of the laws of quantum physics in half a century.
Lady Divine is the owner and operator of The Cavalcade of Perversion, a free exhibit of various perversions and fetish acts and obscenities, such as the "Puke Eater". The show is free, but the various performers must persuade and even physically drag reluctant passers-by to attend. As the finale to every show, Lady Divine appears and robs the patrons at gunpoint.