Posts by dit-dit-dit-dah

Hong Kong scientists claim 'self-charging' graphene battery

Re: IANAC but...

Actually they did say pretty much just that.

"the output voltage (Vop) generated by this device loaded a 220 kΩ resistor was around 0.35 V, which could be maintained about 25 days [...] The value dropped to about 40 mV after about one month."

-robin

Blighty's rocketeers gather for ballistic love-in

String

Twenty thousand miles of baler twine and we've got the start of the british space elevator project.

Don't give me any of that carbon nanotube nonsense. I grew up on a farm - you can tie *anything* together with baler twine.

US Spec-Ops offered camouflage for a specific site

I see a business opportunity

For some kind of augmented reality iphone app that highlights parts of the landscape which have a google earth watermark.

Women's gaydar (for men) improves when ovulating

Arguing for the sake of it...

Bleh. It was just a thought.

The research shows that ovulating women can identify gay men from a photo; presumably it's not so they can chase after them to get fashion tips, so I guess you can say they find you less sexually attractive. What do you care?

I still think that what's been shown is not an ability to identify gayness, but just the already known preference that ovulating women have for heavily masculine features associated with status and health.

Causation / Correlation

Only if you assume that women are recognising gay features and rejecting them.

The other alternative is that women are simply rejecting men with features that indicate they're not prime mates and as a consequence, at least a proportion of those rejected men are turning to homosexuality instead.

Crown Paint probed by ICO for 'possible' online data breach

Too late...

The good news: they've taken the site down already.

The bad news: The customer list was crawled by google.