Do women talk more than men? A new study used tiny technology to investigate. Tinier, cheaper, more capable electronics make it possible to sense , record and measure more and more kinds of things. Some sensors are built into conspicuous, please-notice-what-I’m-doing frames — Google Glass is the current great example of that. But tiny sensors can easily […]
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How to manage women, advisedly, 1944-style [video]
The US Federal Security Office produced this 1944 video about how to manage women. “They’re not naturally familiar with mechanical principles, nor machines,” you will learn: BONUS [quasi-related]: The Dresden Dolls perform “Coin-Operated Boy”:
3-month-old infants, some ladies, and some hats
What can one do with photos like these, which show some ladies and some hats? Show them to three-month-old infants, and then publish a study. One of the few groups to do exactly that published this study: “How a Hat May Affect 3-Month-Olds’ Recognition of a Face: An Eye-Tracking Study,” Hermann Bulf, Eloisa Valenza and […]
Heated Girl-vs.-Girl Body-Parts Competition, Investigated by Scholars
Researchers in three countries went where their curiosity and/or other factors drove them, producing this study which, it says, is entirely about women: “Female Physical Characteristics and Intra-Sexual Competition in Women,” Bernhard Fink [pictured here, above], Dominique Klappauf, Gayle Brewer [pictured here, at right], Todd K. Shackelford, Personality and Individual Differences, epub November 9, 2013. […]