Taking us on an eye-opening journey through science, Inferior challenges our preconceptions about men and women, investigating the ferocious gender wars that burn in biology, psychology and anthropology. Angela Saini revisits the landmark experiments that have informed our understanding, lays bare the problem of bias in research, and speaks to the scientists finally exploring the truth about the female sex. Women - they're like men, but worse. If we (rightly) assume man as the default,…
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In 1843, at the age of sixteen, servant girl Grace Marks was convicted for her part in the vicious murders of her employer and his mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Grace herself claims to have no memory of the murders. A curious book this. It read like a Tracy Chevalier - take a minor historical figure and spin a yarn around them - although written before Chevalier's debut. It's a cracking tale of sex, murder, and insanity. Why are we willing to…
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Twitter has a problem with scam advertising. Rather than having humans manually check adverts for acceptability and authenticity, they let almost anyone promote anything. Whatever meagre protections they build in are rapidly evaded by the scammers. Let's take a look at an example of a promoted crypto-scam about Singapore. I'd say it was obviously a fake, but Twitter says this story comes from CNBC...! Take a look at the bottom of the image - the CNBC domain name is there... Diving into…
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Last week I wrote about how I had 800 passwords in my password manager. It was intended to highlight the ridiculous proliferation of online services, and how redecentralising identity comes with a manageability problem. I now want to talk about 2FA - Two-Factor Authentication - the random codes you have to type in every time you log in somewhere secure. This week, I've moved all my 2FA tokens from Authy, to the open source andOTP app. It was mostly painless exporting the Authy keys - but…
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I'm a fan of the Little Alchemy series of games. Combine earth and fire to get lava. Combine fire and water to get steam. Steam and lava combined makes... You get the picture. I've been toying around with making a version which only uses emoji. Here's what me and my friends have come up with so far. Feel free to add others. ❄+⛄=☃ 🌧️+☂=☔ 🌦️+🌱=🌳 🔥+💧=♨️ 🚰+🦠=🚱 🐟+🍚=🍣 🥕+🥬+🥒+🍅=🥗 🔒+🔑=🔓 🌌+🔭=☄️ 🧔+💈=👨 🚬+🚫=🚭 🧬+🧫+🧪=☣️ 🦘+🐨=🇦🇺 🥝+🧝+🐉=🇳🇿 🐄+🔪+🧀=🍔 🌽+🔥+🧂=🍿 👩+🎬+🎥+🎞️=📽️ 🖌️+🎨=🖼️ From Amanda 🥖+🧂+🔥=🥨 🦅+🌭+🏉+🗽=🇺🇸 ☀…
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