- How to preserve fleeting digital information with DNA for future generations – “One team has demonstrated that DNA they encapsulated can preserve information for at least 2,000 years, and they’re now working on a filing system to make it easier to navigate.”
- Fossilized remains of world’s oldest flower found in Spain – “New analysis of the fossilised remains from central Spain and the Pyrenees show that the plant is about 130 million-years-old, meaning it was around at the same time as feathered dinosaurs.”
- UK doctors got together and studied how much ears grow as we age – “Although not a single patient refused, if they were asked, the doctors didn’t want to ask patients who had just been diagnosed with something serious if they wanted to participate in a fun ear-measuring study. So if grave illness alters our ear-length, we don’t know.”
- Teenage girls play video games but they do it off mic – “The Pew Research Center recently did a study that confirmed something all of us here already knew – teenage girls play video games. Not just “girly” mobile games like Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, but games of all types.”
I could’ve told you that. I recently had my FB account cracked, and the first thing that guy did was start sending sex messages to the women on my friends list. (And a couple of the guys. I think it’s my Kaoru avi. I put it up to commemorate Obergefell, and I haven’t taken it down yet.)
Don’t worry, I stopped the prick before he could do any permanent damage.
What I mean is, being a woman online (I’m not a woman, but the skript kiddie used my account to harass women, so…) can be…exasperating.