– Like low-status Neanderthals, contemporary men who aren't exactly winners—literally, when it comes to playing video games—are more likely to harass women online, new research cited in the Washington Post finds. Scientists who conducted the study published in Plos One played 163 games of Halo as either male-voiced players or female-voiced players (82 female, 81 male) with remote teammates and opponents. The study gauged a remote player's skill by measuring such factors like kills and deaths. Researchers found men were typically cordial to players they believed to be male, and that more skilled men who kicked first-shooter butt were less likely to direct negative comments toward female-voiced players than their less skilled male counterparts. But lamer players tended to take their frustrations out on female players with more frequent, caustic comments.
A lead author notes that gaming provides the perfect breeding ground for this kind of behavior: After all, the Post notes, players can remain anonymous, they may never run into an online teammate or opponent again, and it's a significantly male-biased recreation. Females threaten gamers' "pre-existing social hierarchy"; the guys at the bottom of the virtual totem pole feel threatened and therefore become more threatening to those they think they can quash the easiest. "As men often rely on aggression to maintain their dominant social status, the increase in hostility towards a woman by lower-status males may be an attempt to disregard a female's performance and suppress her disturbance on the hierarchy to retain their social rank," the study notes. Such gamer communities mirror male-dominated industries—such as engineering or the tech field—and may promote sexist actions in real life, scientists warn.
http://www.newser.com/story/21...
Books and libraries, also newspapers & periodicals, are quickly becoming obsolete. With the internet, cellphones, Kindles, Tablets, Blackberries and a few other things... info has become easier and more plentifully obtainable (and more fun) than what a boring environmentally burdensome library or newspaper can provide! Say goodbye to books, especially phonebooks!
This is the best example: We're all online reading news websites every day. We don't buy newspapers. This is more fun and more updated and more colourful and less messy and less burden AND it's interactive. We save money and the environment. These days, "libraries" are just about little more than free "internet cafes". People go there when their home PCs are on the fritz or they don't own one. This is the age of technology! Besides, don't the reporters WANT to know what the people are thinking?
First 1977, and then in 2002, then a repeat not long after in 2014. SEVEN feet of snow is insane! (So that's 25 years, then 12 years, meaning the next one should be due in 2020)...
For the older generation: They've already long known exactly who and what the Fantastic Four are supposed to be. For the younger generation: They only know what they've seen in movies, so it's already too late to make the Fantastic Four be so different from what they were since the 1960s... they were already a recent movie (2005)! The stupidest part is, they don't even revise the name any: Fantastic Four, Total Recall, Robocop, Godzilla. This new FF is so different, that they could've given the new movie ANY name regardless!
...as seen here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
BUT they did this to us too, and the rest of the world...
"A news report says Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant was so unprepared for the disaster that workers had to bring protective gear and instruction manuals from elsewhere and borrow equipment from a contractor. The report, released by operator Tokyo Electric Co, is based on interviews of workers and plant data. It portrays chaos in a desperate and ultimately unsuccessful battle to protect the Fukushima plant from meltdown, and shows that workers struggled with unfamiliar equipment." ap.org/
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"Scientists have found traces of radioactivity in fish off the California coast that migrated from the waters off of Japan, site of the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster of 2011, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The researchers say the evidence is unequivocal. The young tuna were found to be contaminated with two radioactive forms of the element cesium from Fukushima." http://content.usatoday.com/co...
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"Japanese whalers caught 2 animals along the northern coast that had traces of radiation from leaks at a damaged nuclear power plant, officials said. 2 of 17 minke whales caught off the Pacific coast of Hokkaido showed traces of radioactive cesium, both about 1/20th of the legal limit, fisheries officials said. They are the first whales thought to have been affected by radiation leaked from the Fukushima nuclear plant since it was hit by a 3/11/11 earthquake and tsunami." nhjournal. com
A coalition of scientists, animal-rights activists, and philosophers are in agreement: dolphins, second only to humans in terms of mammalian intelligence, should be considered "non-human persons" and granted due protection under law, reports The Telegraph.
Petition: http://www.cetaceanrights.org/
At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Vancouver, the group, led by Dr. Thomas White, was canvassing for support of their "Declaration of Cetacean Rights."
"The similarities between cetaceans and humans are such that they, as we, have an individual sense of self," said White, an ethics expert at Loyola Marymount University, to The Telegraph. "Dolphins are non human persons. A person needs to be an individual. If individuals count, then the deliberate killing of individuals of this sort is ethically the equivalent of deliberately killing a human being. The science has shown that individuality, consciousness, self-awareness is no longer a unique human property. That poses all kinds of challenges."
Dolphin research has shown that the creatures are more intelligent than chimpanzees, they recognize their reflections in a mirror, and can even think about the future.
The scientists originally proposed the ten Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans two years ago at a conference in Helsinki.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sci...
Slashdot Mirror
NO ONE has the right to download anything onto anyone's PC without prior permission!
NOT
"Quality" is the concern :-)
You mean, they don't already?
i'm in trouble now :-)
– Like low-status Neanderthals, contemporary men who aren't exactly winners—literally, when it comes to playing video games—are more likely to harass women online, new research cited in the Washington Post finds. Scientists who conducted the study published in Plos One played 163 games of Halo as either male-voiced players or female-voiced players (82 female, 81 male) with remote teammates and opponents. The study gauged a remote player's skill by measuring such factors like kills and deaths. Researchers found men were typically cordial to players they believed to be male, and that more skilled men who kicked first-shooter butt were less likely to direct negative comments toward female-voiced players than their less skilled male counterparts. But lamer players tended to take their frustrations out on female players with more frequent, caustic comments. A lead author notes that gaming provides the perfect breeding ground for this kind of behavior: After all, the Post notes, players can remain anonymous, they may never run into an online teammate or opponent again, and it's a significantly male-biased recreation. Females threaten gamers' "pre-existing social hierarchy"; the guys at the bottom of the virtual totem pole feel threatened and therefore become more threatening to those they think they can quash the easiest. "As men often rely on aggression to maintain their dominant social status, the increase in hostility towards a woman by lower-status males may be an attempt to disregard a female's performance and suppress her disturbance on the hierarchy to retain their social rank," the study notes. Such gamer communities mirror male-dominated industries—such as engineering or the tech field—and may promote sexist actions in real life, scientists warn. http://www.newser.com/story/21...
Books and libraries, also newspapers & periodicals, are quickly becoming obsolete. With the internet, cellphones, Kindles, Tablets, Blackberries and a few other things... info has become easier and more plentifully obtainable (and more fun) than what a boring environmentally burdensome library or newspaper can provide! Say goodbye to books, especially phonebooks! This is the best example: We're all online reading news websites every day. We don't buy newspapers. This is more fun and more updated and more colourful and less messy and less burden AND it's interactive. We save money and the environment. These days, "libraries" are just about little more than free "internet cafes". People go there when their home PCs are on the fritz or they don't own one. This is the age of technology! Besides, don't the reporters WANT to know what the people are thinking?
First 1977, and then in 2002, then a repeat not long after in 2014. SEVEN feet of snow is insane! (So that's 25 years, then 12 years, meaning the next one should be due in 2020)...
http://www.newser.com/story/18...
That makes me angry :-) http://www.newser.com/story/21...
...as prophesized
This invention will eventually make Japan into the world's second fattest nation (following Mexico).
Breaking Bad's writers were too criminally inventive :-)
They've long had it. i've seen D & D movies!
Let them go (and shake their hands).
For the older generation: They've already long known exactly who and what the Fantastic Four are supposed to be. For the younger generation: They only know what they've seen in movies, so it's already too late to make the Fantastic Four be so different from what they were since the 1960s... they were already a recent movie (2005)! The stupidest part is, they don't even revise the name any: Fantastic Four, Total Recall, Robocop, Godzilla. This new FF is so different, that they could've given the new movie ANY name regardless!
Arnold SomethingOrOther cheated on his wife...
Yet the japanese are building the Death Star http://www.newser.com/story/16...
...now that they're lifting the one-child-per-family law, they're expecting a huge population explosion! They're also leveling mountains to create more city space: http://www.newser.com/story/18... http://www.newser.com/story/18...
...as seen here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... BUT they did this to us too, and the rest of the world... "A news report says Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant was so unprepared for the disaster that workers had to bring protective gear and instruction manuals from elsewhere and borrow equipment from a contractor. The report, released by operator Tokyo Electric Co, is based on interviews of workers and plant data. It portrays chaos in a desperate and ultimately unsuccessful battle to protect the Fukushima plant from meltdown, and shows that workers struggled with unfamiliar equipment." ap.org/ - "Scientists have found traces of radioactivity in fish off the California coast that migrated from the waters off of Japan, site of the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster of 2011, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The researchers say the evidence is unequivocal. The young tuna were found to be contaminated with two radioactive forms of the element cesium from Fukushima." http://content.usatoday.com/co... - "Japanese whalers caught 2 animals along the northern coast that had traces of radiation from leaks at a damaged nuclear power plant, officials said. 2 of 17 minke whales caught off the Pacific coast of Hokkaido showed traces of radioactive cesium, both about 1/20th of the legal limit, fisheries officials said. They are the first whales thought to have been affected by radiation leaked from the Fukushima nuclear plant since it was hit by a 3/11/11 earthquake and tsunami." nhjournal. com
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/...
A coalition of scientists, animal-rights activists, and philosophers are in agreement: dolphins, second only to humans in terms of mammalian intelligence, should be considered "non-human persons" and granted due protection under law, reports The Telegraph. Petition: http://www.cetaceanrights.org/ At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Vancouver, the group, led by Dr. Thomas White, was canvassing for support of their "Declaration of Cetacean Rights." "The similarities between cetaceans and humans are such that they, as we, have an individual sense of self," said White, an ethics expert at Loyola Marymount University, to The Telegraph. "Dolphins are non human persons. A person needs to be an individual. If individuals count, then the deliberate killing of individuals of this sort is ethically the equivalent of deliberately killing a human being. The science has shown that individuality, consciousness, self-awareness is no longer a unique human property. That poses all kinds of challenges." Dolphin research has shown that the creatures are more intelligent than chimpanzees, they recognize their reflections in a mirror, and can even think about the future. The scientists originally proposed the ten Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans two years ago at a conference in Helsinki. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sci...
http://www.newser.com/story/21... http://www.newser.com/story/20... http://www.newser.com/story/21...
We have to teach those scumbags a lesson: https://lockerdome.com/6724408...
http://www.newser.com/story/15...