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Submission + - Human penis size influences female attraction and male assessment of rivals (phys.org)

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alternative_right writes: Previous studies have found that penis size can influence reproductive success by affecting the likelihood of pregnancy. However, a larger penis could also increase a male's attractiveness to females or reduce the likelihood of fights with other males, for example, by signaling higher testosterone levels and therefore greater fighting ability.

Females rated male figures that were taller, had a higher shoulder-to-hip ratio (indicating a more V-shaped body) and a larger penis as being more attractive. However, beyond a certain point, further increases in penis size, height and shoulder breadth had diminishing benefits.

Males also rated taller figures that had a more V-shaped body and a larger penis as being more intimidating as sexual rivals and fighting opponents. But, in contrast to female participants, they consistently ranked males with more exaggerated traits as more of a sexual threat, suggesting that males tend to overestimate the importance of these characteristics for attracting females.

Submission + - World's Most Common Pain Relief Drug May Induce Risky Behavior, Study Suggests (sciencealert.com)

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alternative_right writes: Acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol and sold widely under the brand names Tylenol and Panadol, may also increase risk-taking, according to research from 2020 that measured changes in people's behavior when under the influence of the medication.

"Acetaminophen seems to make people feel less negative emotion when they consider risky activities – they just don't feel as scared," explained neuroscientist Baldwin Way from The Ohio State University when the findings were published.

The findings add to a growing body of research suggesting that acetaminophen's effects on pain reduction also extend to various psychological processes, lowering people's receptivity to hurt feelings, experiencing reduced empathy, and even blunting cognitive functions.

Submission + - Not All Sitting Is Equal. One Type Was Just Linked to Better Brain Health. (sciencealert.com)

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alternative_right writes: A systematic review of 85 studies has now found good reason to differentiate between 'active' sitting, like playing cards or reading, and 'passive' sitting, like watching TV.

The former may actually boost brain health.

That's probably because active sitting engages the brain, whereas passive sitting lets a person take a back seat both physically and cognitively.

Submission + - Why some people get bad colds and others don't (sciencedaily.com)

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alternative_right writes: Scientists found that nasal cells act as a first line of defense against the common cold, working together to block rhinovirus soon after infection. A fast antiviral response can stop the virus before symptoms appear. If that response is weakened or delayed, the virus spreads and causes inflammation and breathing problems. The study highlights why the body’s reaction matters more than the virus alone.

Submission + - FBI's Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch on You (theintercept.com)

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alternative_right writes: Federal prosecutors on January 9 charged Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones, an IT specialist for an unnamed government contractor, with “the offense of unlawful retention of national defense information,” according to an FBI affidavit. The case attracted national attention after federal agents investigating Perez-Lugones searched the home of a Washington Post reporter. But overlooked so far in the media coverage is the fact that a surprising surveillance tool pointed investigators toward Perez-Lugones: an office printer with a photographic memory.

News of the investigation broke when the Washington Post reported that investigators seized the work laptop, personal laptop, phone, and smartwatch of journalist Hannah Natanson, who has covered the Trump administration’s impact on the federal government and recently wrote about developing more than 1,000 government sources. A Justice Department official told the Post that Perez-Lugones had been messaging Natanson to discuss classified information. The affidavit does not allege that Perez-Lugones disseminated national defense information, only that he unlawfully retained it. The Justice Department and the Washington Post did not respond to request for comment.

The affidavit provides insight into how Perez-Lugones allegedly attempted to exfiltrate information from a Secure Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, and the unexpected way his employer took notice.

According to the FBI, Perez-Lugones printed a classified intelligence report, albeit in a roundabout fashion. It’s standard for workplace printers to log certain information, such as the names of files they print and the users who printed them. In an apparent attempt to avoid detection, Perez-Lugones, according to the affidavit, took screenshots of classified materials, cropped the screenshots, and pasted them into a Microsoft Word document.

Submission + - Aurora Watch in Effect as Severe Solar Storm Slams Into Earth (sciencealert.com)

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alternative_right writes: Thanks to a giant eruption on the Sun and a large opening in its atmosphere, we're currently experiencing G4 conditions – a severe geomagnetic storm strong enough to disrupt power grids as energy from space weather disturbances drives electric currents through Earth's magnetic field and the ground.

Experts say the storm could even reach G5 levels, the extreme category responsible for the spectacular auroral activity seen in May 2024.

Submission + - The World's Longest-Running Lab Experiment Is Almost 100 Years Old (sciencealert.com) 1

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alternative_right writes: It all started in 1927, when physicist Thomas Parnell at the University of Queensland in Australia filled a closed funnel with the world's thickest known fluid: pitch, a derivative of tar that was once used to seal ships against the seas.

Three years later, in 1930, Parnell cut the funnel's stem, like a ribbon at an event, heralding the start of the Pitch Drop Experiment. From then on, the black substance began to flow.

At least, that is, in a manner of speaking. At room temperature pitch might look solid, but it is actually a fluid 100 billion times more viscous than water.

Submission + - Supreme Court agrees to review geofence warrant challenge (upi.com) 1

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alternative_right writes: Okello Chatrie was convicted of robbing $195,000 from a Virginia bank on May 20, 2019, after investigators used location-tracking data from Google to identify him.

Google provided a geofence that records and stores location data within a certain radius of the bank that Chatrie robbed at gunpoint.

A detective obtained three warrants for related geofence data, which Google provided after receiving the respective warrants.

Comment Handouts = wealth for big corporations (Score 1) 99

by alternative_right (#65930690) Attached to: Seattle is Building Light Rail Like It's 1999

In every area of American life, when government hands out money, the big dogs get bigger and the people who think they are going to receive the merits get a huge windfall, but two pay periods later, prices mysteriously rise. It's a mystery and they will never figure it out because biologically/genetically they lack the wiring to process this data.

Comment mock the pretense (Score 1) 99

by alternative_right (#65930678) Attached to: Seattle is Building Light Rail Like It's 1999

This is true. Poor people commit more crime and have lower IQs. In America, we keep them separate from the middle classes by trapping them in urban ghettos. Eventually some idiot comes along and sells the soyboys and women on "enlightened nations have public transport," then the youth get raped, and eventually someone sabotages the program to keep the normal people safe from the crime of the have-nots.

Submission + - How small mammals shrink their brains to survive the cold (phys.org)

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alternative_right writes: An international team of researchers, with the involvement of the UAB, has conducted a study that explains the evolutionary origins of the Dehnel phenomenon, a unique seasonal adaptation in small mammals that involves the ability to reduce and recover brain volume and function.

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