Police bodycams can be hacked to doctor footage
The effects of emotional disclosure were equivalent whether participants thought they were disclosing to a chatbot or to a person.
Here I report a case of “masturbation” with a tool by a wild infant chimpanzee. The observed “masturbation” did not involve ejaculation, because infant chimpanzees are unable to ejaculate.
Tokyo University manipulated test scores for more than a decade to ensure more men became doctors
Among the most frequent reasons that men indicated for being single included poor flirting skills, low self-confidence, poor looks, shyness, low effort, and bad experience from previous relationships.
How to Recover from Romantic Heartbreak. Use “negative reappraisal,” and understand you have work to do—time alone may not be enough.
The strongest positive correlates of narcissism were: using words related to sports, second-person pronouns, and swear words.
observation of the eyes and ocular regions of normal control individuals, and of serial killers, enabled average respondents to distinguish these individuals clearly in terms of trustworthiness, likability, and general “goodness.”
Chemists discover how blue light (from digital devices and the sun ) speeds blindness
Lip-reading artificial intelligence could help the deaf—or spies
It’s nearly impossible to break a dry spaghetti noodle into only two pieces. A new MIT study shows how and why it can be done. [more]
Obesity has reached alarming levels in Thailand, which ranks as the second- heaviest nation in Asia, after Malaysia. One in three Thai men are obese, while more than 40 percent of women are significantly overweight. [NY Times]
When presented with two vendors selling effectively identical products, the Japanese choose whichever one has the longer line in front of it
An errant fly ruined a world record domino attempt in Germany
Man falls into Anish Kapoor’s artwork, ends up at hospital
Adam is the founder of Dick At Your Door
every day the same again | August 23rd, 2018
