This is great timing. I like how the LUX researchers' conceptual description of WIMPs sounds exactly like neutrinos: https://medium.com/starts-with...

A significant contributor to this problem is the relatively new TSA pre-check passenger category. Along with airport personnel and premium passengers, these people usually immediately pre-processed by TSA personnel as they arrive, which can starve the regular passenger lines of service. And they often have dedicated screening lines with space and TSA agents that are underutilized, while the regular adjacent lines are overloaded. Some airports like PDX (Portland) seem very attuned to issues like these, and are hustling people through as best as possible. And then there's AUS (Austin) where the TSA personnel are virtually clueless about slowdowns, much less the cause of them, and also appear uninterested in trying to improve anything.

Unfortunately, there's very little awareness of this problem. I hate when people dismiss something based on lack of evidence when simple, careful observation can quickly refute it. If you find yourself quickly dismissing this, first look up the Dunning-Kruger effect. Just because it's not obvious to you doesn't make it not so. We live in a culture that confuses information with knowledge. Our brains grow in response to work, NOT stimulation (although educational video game manufacturers will quickly try to convince you otherwise). Brain growth is entirely analogous to body growth (not a coincidence), and sit-ups make your abdominal muscles stronger but vibrating belts do not. If you think otherwise, your concept of learning is probably a variation of the common, and wrong, "learning is by osmosis." In our culture we quickly turn to television/video games/smartphones/web-surfing when we feel bored. And when our kids cry out in anxiety about being bored, we stick a DVD in to play, or hand them a game controller. But boredom is a (very interesting) transition point from a passive, non-constructive thought state, to an active, constructive one. The reason it's stressful is because you're going from a state of not exerting yourself, to a state where you do have to do work. Next time you're in a position to address someone's boredom (a more accessible exercise with kids but works equally well with adults), don't - instead wait and see what happens. You'll see the transition from a non-creative state to a creative one. If you still have a hard time believing this, pick out a few of those who you would consider the world's greatest thinkers, and see what their upbringing was like.