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Report: Standing Up to Pee Gives Boys an Unfair Advantage in Physics

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Report: Standing Up to Pee Gives Boys an Unfair Advantage in Physics

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Both female authors have PhDs in physics and Low seems to as well judging by his publications. Here's another paper by D. Low and K. Wilson on the subject of male vs female test scores. That pair has also published a paper seemingly concerning pedagogy specifically relating to conceptual errors students make in physics and how to address them. Not sure that letting the girls and boys use the same toilets and letting the girls try guiding the streams would help get more females into physics but it could be worth a try.
 
“NSFW” doesn’t begin to describe Bluetooth security in sex toys
Poor security lets connected "wearables" be hijacked by attackers.
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Lomas performed a security analysis on a number of BLE-enabled sex toys, including the Lovense Hush—a BLE-connected butt plug designed to allow control by the owner's smartphone or remotely from a partner's phone via the device's mobile application. Using a Bluetooth "dongle" and antenna, Lomas was able to intercept and capture the BLE transmissions between the devices and their associated applications.
 
Police arrest drunk 'time traveller' from 2048 warning of coming alien invasion

Police say a central Wyoming man they arrested for public intoxication claimed he had travelled back in time to warn of an alien invasion.

Casper police say the man they encountered at 10.30pm on Monday claimed he was from the year 2048.

KTWO-AM in Casper reports that the man told police that he wanted to warn the people of Casper that aliens will arrive next year, and that they should leave as soon as possible. He asked to speak to the president of the town, about 170 miles (270 kilometres) northwest of Cheyenne.

The man told police he was only able to time travel because aliens filled his body with alcohol. He noted that he was supposed to be transported to the year 2018, not this year.
 
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Specifically, researchers gave patients a sham anti-itch cream for eczema (atopic dermatitis) and told them it increases sensitivity to pain as a side effect—which is a side effect of real medicines, but the phony cream shouldn’t have any side effects. Nevertheless, patients not only reported more pain, but the amount of pain they reported depended on the cream’s price and packaging. The cream caused more pain in patients when they were told it had a hefty price tag and came in a brand-name-looking box, compared with when they thought it was a cheap cream that came in a generic-looking box. The researchers, led by neuroscientist Alexandra Tinnermann of University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, published the results recently in Science.

Patients reported no heightened pain when using a control cream, even though the same benign cream was used for all three types: the expensive, cheap, and control. The only differences were the prices, packaging, and the patients’ expectations. The researchers speculate that patients expected the expensive, brand-name-looking drug to simply be more effective than the one that looked like a cheap knock-off. Thus it would be more potent and have stronger side effects.
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