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Attorney withdraws from election challenge lawsuit, saying Trump used him to 'perpetrate a crime'
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An attorney representing President Trump Donald TrumpSanders calls out Manchin, Sinema ahead of filibuster showdown Laura Ingraham 'not saying' if she'd support Trump in 2024 The Hill's 12:30 Report: Djokovic may not compete in French Open over vaccine requirement MORE in one of his dozens of lawsuits challenging the 2020 election moved to withdraw from the case on Thursday, telling a federal court that the president used him to "perpetrate a crime."
Philadelphia-based attorney Jerome Marcus asked the court to allow him to withdraw, citing concerns over Pennsylvania's professional conduct standards for lawyers.
Marcus wrote that "the client has used the lawyer's services to perpetrate a crime and the client insists upon taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant and with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement."
Marcus did not immediately respond to a message seeking further comment.
The move comes a day after a large mob of Trump supporters, galvanized by the president himself, stormed the Capitol as lawmakers were certifying President-elect Joe Biden Joe BidenMacro grid will keep the lights on Pelosi suggests filibuster supporters 'dishonor' MLK's legacy on voting rights Sanders calls out Manchin, Sinema ahead of filibuster showdown MORE's win. The riot left four people dead, including one woman who was fatally shot by police.
The incident came after months of Trump's baseless claims of a stolen election and a failed legal effort across several battleground states to overturn Biden's victory.
The case Marcus was involved in was one of the earliest election challenges that Trump filed and one of the most short-lived. Submitted just two days after the election, it sought to halt the vote counting in Philadelphia, accusing elections officials of illegally excluding Trump's poll watchers from observing the process.
A federal judge denied Trump's motion for an emergency injunction on the same day that the lawsuit was filed.
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The Blatant Biological Lies of Gender Roles
Does it really all come down to sperm and eggs?
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By Zuleyma Tang-Martinez, University of Missouri-St. Louis
That males are naturally promiscuous while females are coy and choosy is a widely held belief. Even many scientists – including some biologists, psychologists and anthropologists – tout this notion when interviewed by the media about almost any aspect of male-female differences, including in human beings. In fact, certain human behaviors such as rape, marital infidelity and some forms of domestic abuse have been portrayed as adaptive traits that evolved because males are promiscuous while females are sexually reluctant.
These ideas, which are pervasive in Western culture, also have served as the cornerstone for the evolutionary study of sexual selection, sex differences and sex roles among animals. Only recently have some scientists – fortified with modern data – begun to question their underlying assumptions and the resulting paradigm.
It all comes down to sperm and eggs?
These simple assumptions are based, in part, on the differences in size and presumed energy cost of producing sperm versus eggs – a contrast that we biologists call anisogamy. Charles Darwin was the first to allude to anisogamy as a possible explanation for male-female differences in sexual behavior.
His brief mention was ultimately expanded by others into the idea that because males produce millions of cheap sperm, they can mate with many different females without incurring a biological cost. Conversely, females produce relatively few "expensive," nutrient-containing eggs; they should be highly selective and mate only with one "best male." He, of course, would provide more than enough sperm to fertilize all a female's eggs.
In 1948, Angus Bateman – a botanist who never again published in this area – was the first to test Darwin's predictions about sexual selection and male-female sexual behavior. He set up a series of breeding experiments using several inbred strains of fruit flies with different mutations as markers. He placed equal numbers of males and females in laboratory flasks and allowed them to mate for several days. Then he counted their adult offspring, using inherited mutation markers to infer how many individuals each fly had mated with and how much variation there was in mating success.
One of Bateman's most important conclusions was that male reproductive success – as measured by offspring produced – increases linearly with his number of mates. But female reproductive success peaks after she mates with only one male. Moreover, Bateman alleged this was a near-universal characteristic of all sexually reproducing species.
In 1972, theoretical biologist Robert Trivers highlighted Bateman's work when he formulated the theory of "parental investment. He argued that sperm are so cheap (low investment) that males evolved to abandon their mate and indiscriminately seek other females for mating. Female investment is so much greater (expensive eggs) that females guardedly mate monogamously and stay behind to take care of the young.
In other words, females evolved to choose males prudently and mate with only one superior male; males evolved to mate indiscriminately with as many females as possible. Trivers believed that this pattern is true for the great majority of sexual species.
The problem is, modern data simply don't support most of Bateman's and Trivers' predictions and assumptions. But that didn't stop "Bateman's Principle" from influencing evolutionary thought for decades.
A single sperm versus a single egg isn't an apt comparison. www.shutterstock.com.
Examining the assumptions about males
In reality, it makes little sense to compare the cost of one egg to one sperm. As comparative psychologist Don Dewsbury pointed out, a male produces millions of sperm to fertilize even one egg. The relevant comparison is the cost of millions of sperm versus that of one egg.
In addition, males produce semen which, in most species, contains critical bioactive compounds that presumably are very expensive to produce. As is now also well-documented, sperm production is limited and males can run out of sperm – what researchers term "sperm depletion."
Consequently, we now know males may allocate more or less sperm to any given female, depending on her age, health or previous mated status. Such differential treatment among preferred and nonpreferred females is a form of male mate choice. In some species, males may even refuse to copulate with certain females. Indeed, male mate choice is now a particularly active field of study.
If sperm were as inexpensive and unlimited as Bateman and Trivers proposed, one would not expect sperm depletion, sperm allocation or male mate choice.
Assumptions about females don't match reality
Birds have played a critical role in dispelling the myth that females evolved to mate with a single male. In the 1980s, approximately 90 percent of all songbird species were believed to be "monogamous" that is, one male and one female mated exclusively with one another and raised their young together. At present, only about 7 percent are classified as monogamous.
Modern molecular techniques that allow for paternity analysis revealed both males and females often mate and produce offspring with multiple partners. That is, they engage in what researchers call "extra-pair copulations" (EPCs) and "extra pair fertilizations (EPFs).
Because of the assumption that reluctant females mate with only one male, many scientists initially assumed promiscuous males coerced reluctant females into engaging in sexual activity outside their home territory. But behavioral observations quickly determined that females play an active role in searching for nonpair males and soliciting extra-pair copulations.
Rates of EPCs and EPFs vary greatly from species to species, but the superb fairy wren is one socially monogamous bird that provides an extreme example: 95 percent of clutches contain young sired by extra-pair males and 75 percent of young have extra-pair fathers.
This situation is not limited to birds – across the animal kingdom, females frequently mate with multiple males and produce broods with multiple fathers. In fact, Tim Birkhead, a well-known behavioral ecologist, concluded in his 2000 book "Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition," "Generations of reproductive biologists assumed females to be sexually monogamous but it is now clear that this is wrong."
Ironically, Bateman's own study demonstrated the idea that female reproductive success peaks after mating with only one male is not correct. When Bateman presented his data, he did so in two different graphs; only one graph (which represented fewer experiments) led to the conclusion that female reproductive success peaks after one mating. The other graph – largely ignored in subsequent treatises – showed that the number of offspring produced by a female increases with the number of males she mates with. That finding runs directly counter to the theory there is no benefit for a "promiscuous" female.
Modern studies have demonstrated this is true in a broad range of species – females that mate with more than one male produce more young.
What's happening in society outside the lab can influence what you see inside it. National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Seeing what society leads you to expect
So if closer observation would have disproved this promiscuous male/sexually coy female myth, in the animal world at least, why didn't scientists see what was in front of their eyes?
Bateman's and Trivers' ideas had their origins in Darwin's writings, which were greatly influenced by the cultural beliefs of the Victorian era. Victorian social attitudes and science were closely intertwined. The common belief was that males and females were radically different. Moreover, attitudes about Victorian women influenced beliefs about nonhuman females. Males were considered to be active, combative, more variable, and more evolved and complex. Females were deemed to be passive, nurturing; less variable, with arrested development equivalent to that of a child. "True women" were expected to be pure, submissive to men, sexually restrained and uninterested in sex – and this representation was also seamlessly applied to female animals.
Although these ideas may now seem quaint, most scholars of the time embraced them as scientific truths. These stereotypes of men and women survived through the 20th century and influenced research on male-female sexual differences in animal behavior.
Unconscious biases and expectations can influence the questions scientists ask and also their interpretations of data. Behavioral biologist Marcy Lawton and colleagues describe a fascinating example. In 1992, eminent male scientists studying a species of bird wrote an excellent book on the species – but were mystified by the lack of aggression in males. They did report violent and frequent clashes among females, but dismissed their importance. These scientists expected males to be combative and females to be passive – when observations failed to meet their expectations, they were unable to envision alternative possibilities, or realize the potential significance of what they were seeing.
The same likely happened with regard to sexual behavior: Many scientists saw promiscuity in males and coyness in females because that is what they expected to see and what theory – and societal attitudes told them they should see.
In fairness, prior to the advent of molecular paternity analysis, it was extremely difficult to accurately ascertain how many mates an individual actually had. Likewise, only in modern times has it been possible to accurately measure sperm counts, which led to the realization that sperm competition, sperm allocation and sperm depletion are important phenomena in nature. Thus, these modern techniques also contributed to overturning stereotypes of male and female sexual behavior that had been accepted for more than a century.
What looks like monogamy at first glance very often isn't. www.shutterstock.com.
Bateman's research has not been replicated
Besides the data summarized above, there is the question of whether Bateman's experiments are replicable. Given that replication is an essential criterion of science, and that Bateman's ideas became an unquestioned tenet of behavioral and evolutionary science, it is shocking that more than 50 years passed before an attempt to replicate the study was published.
Behavioral ecologist Patricia Gowaty and collaborators had found numerous methodological and statistical problems with Bateman's experiments; when they reanalyzed his data, they were unable to support his conclusions. Subsequently, they reran Bateman's critical experiments, using the exact same fly strains and methodology – and couldn't replicate his results or conclusions.
Counter evidence, evolving social attitudes, recognitions of flaws in the studies that started it all – Bateman's Principle, with its widely accepted preconception about male-female sexual behavior, is currently undergoing serious scientific debate. The scientific study of sexual behavior may be experiencing a paradigm shift. Facile explanations and assertions about male-female sexual behaviors and roles just don't hold up.
Zuleyma Tang-Martinez, Professor Emerita of Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
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Iran's Zarif urges immediate end to Saudi attacks on Yemen
Thursday, 26 March 2015 7:54 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 30 March 2015 9:15 AM ]
Yemenis stand at the site of a Saudi air strike against Houthi Ansarullah fighters near Sana'a Airport, Yemen, on March 26, 2015. (© AFP)
The Iranian foreign minister has called on Saudi Arabia to immediately cease its military aggression against Yemen.
"We demand an immediate stop to the Saudi military operations in Yemen," Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an interview with Iran's Arabic-language al-Alam news network on Thursday.
Zarif said the military operations constitute a violation of Yemen's sovereignty and will only lead to bloodshed.
"We will spare no effort to contain the crisis in Yemen," Zarif said.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
He pointed out that the act of aggression will benefit no country, adding that the military campaign will further escalate the tensions in the region.
The Iranian foreign minister also urged the regional and western countries to avoid playing into the hands of terrorists such as al-Qaeda and ISIL in Yemen.
Speaking to Press TV on the situation in Yemen, he said, "We believe that the situation in Yemen is a very dangerous situation and we advise against any escalation because we believe that any interference in Yemen will simply lead to further loss of human life as it has since this morning.
Stressing the need for promoting dialog in the Arab country, he said, "We believe that there is an urgent need for dialog, for understanding among the Yemenis without external interference and that's what we hope we get."
Strikes will fuel flames
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham
Earlier in the day, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham also strongly condemned the Saudi military campaign against members of the Ansarullah movement in neighboring Yemen, stressing that the move will create an insecure atmosphere in the Middle East.
"Resorting to military actions against Yemen, which is already engaged in internal conflict and fighting terrorism, will further complicate the situation, spread the extent of the crisis and squander opportunities to peacefully resolve internal disputes in Yemen," Afkham said.
She also called for the immediate implementation of agreements struck between Yemeni factions, and a quick cessation of Saudi air strikes and operations against Yemen and its nation.
Afkham further noted that the ongoing onslaught against Yemen will have no outcome other than the spread of terrorism and extremism, and will undermine security in the Middle East.
Saudi strikes to backfire
Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran's Parliament Alaeddin Boroujerdi also denounced the Saudi attacks against Yemen, stating that such an action would eventually backfire.
"The fact that Saudi Arabia has waged a new war in the region attests to its disregard and irresponsibility towards issues in the Muslim world. The outcomes of this crisis will boomerang on Saudi Arabia as war is not confined to the borders of one particular region," Boroujerdi pointed out.
Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran's Parliament Alaeddin Boroujerdi (file photo)
He also criticized the United States for fomenting instability in the Middle East, stating that Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf allies have had Washington's carte blanche in order to launch attacks against Yemen.
The ongoing Saudi air strikes on Yemen have so far claimed the lives of 13 civilians with more deaths feared, according to Yemeni sources.
"Thirteen civilians, including women and children, were killed in the Saudi raids overnight," a civil defense source said on Thursday.
According to witnesses, residents are helping civil defense authorities in the search for any more victims under the rubble of houses damaged in the air raids.
Following the attacks, forces loyal to fugitive Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi seized control of the international airport in the southern port city of Aden.
Troops of the 39th Armored Brigade, who are allied to the Houthi Ansarullah movement, had earlier seized the facility.
The Al Arabiya News Channel reported on Thursday that Saudi Arabia has deployed "100 fighter jets, 150,000 soldiers and other navy units" for the military campaign in Yemen.
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package ru.pravvich.figures;

import org.junit.Test;
import ru.pravvich.Cell;
import ru.pravvich.ImposableMoveException;

import static org.hamcrest.core.Is.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

public class OfficerTest {
    @Test(expected = ImposableMoveException.class)
    public void whenFigureMoveNotDiagonalThenNothingOccurs() throws ImposableMoveException {
        Figure[][] desc = new Figure[8][8];
        desc[4][4] = new Officer(new Cell(4, 4), "white");
        desc[4][4].move(new Cell(5, 7));
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    public void whenThenReturnArrayCellRoadWithoutFinishCell() throws ImposableMoveException {
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        desc[4][4] = new Officer(new Cell(4, 4), "white");
        Cell[] result = desc[4][4].move(new Cell(7, 7));
        assertThat(result.length, is(2));
    }

    @Test(expected = ImposableMoveException.class)
    public void whenRoadNotImposableForOfficerThenThrowImposableMoveException() throws ImposableMoveException {
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        desc[4][4] = new Officer(new Cell(4, 4), "white");
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}

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Baby Cough Remedies
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No one likes to see a baby or toddler struggling with cold symptoms—particularly a cough that can linger for weeks. But the FDA and American Academy of Pediatrics both say cough syrup is a bad choice for young kids, because the meds aren't effective and too much could be dangerous.
"Cough syrups have ingredients such as dextrorphan, which can be harmful," says Mona Patel, MD, attending physician in the Department of General Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. "We've had children brought into the emergency room because parents kept giving [cough medicines] to them."
That's scary stuff, but the fact remains: You want to be able to do something for a sick child. Thankfully, there are plenty of effective and safe baby cough remedies to choose from. Here, three simple, medicine-free solutions to help your little one feel better fast:
Nasal suction bulb Often, coughing is a reflex in response to an irritation, such as mucus, says Mona Patel. When a child has a stuffy nose, some of that mucus drains down the back of the throat and causes a cough. "For a baby with a runny nose, you can use a nasal bulb [a small rubber bulb available at drugstores] for suction," she says. Baby cough remedies like adding saline drops to your tot's nostrils, one at a time, then clearing out the mucus with the bulb, are easy and effective.
Honey For children age 1 and older, Patel recommends giving ½ to 1 teaspoon of honey. "It works by thinning out mucus secretions and loosens the coughing," she says. Buckwheat honey, in particular, has been shown to soothe young kids' coughs better than dextromethorphan-containing cough medications. (Honey's also packed with healthy antioxidants, and its antibacterial properties promote wound healing.) Remember, never give honey to children younger than age 1 because of the potential for infant botulism.
Cold-steam humidifier Adding moisture to the air can soothe coughing, offering children comfort for cold symptoms, especially at night. Cold-steam humidifiers (like Vick's Starry Night Cool Mist Humidifier) work especially well for croup, an inflammation of the larynx and trachea (voice box and windpipe) that creates a high-pitched, barking cough. Another simple solution: Take your child for a stroll in the cool night air. Cold air opens the windpipe, allowing more air to pass through.
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Australia signs cybercrime agreement with Thailand
The agreement signed in Bangkok this week means Australia is now working in tandem with Thailand, Singapore, and China on tackling cybercrime in the Asia Pacific region.
Written by Asha Barbaschow, Journalist
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Australia is intensifying co-operation with Thailand on cybercrime in a bid to boost regional commercial security.
In Bangkok on an official visit with senior leadership of the Thai Royal Police, Australia's first Ambassador for Cybercrime Tobias Feakin signed an agreement with Thailand that will see the two countries work together in the face of growing challenges posed by cybercriminal networks in Asia.
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"Criminals and nefarious actors can adapt and absorb all [this information] so much quicker than governments," Feakin told AAP. "So if we're not talking about it, sharing best practice, and keeping on the move as well, then we will soon find ourselves behind by quite a margin."
Australia will also provide support in "cybercrime digital forensic development" to the Thai Royal Police, national security, and foreign affairs officials.
Australia already co-operates with Thailand through the Royal Thai Police and Office of Narcotics Control Board, based on threats by transnational criminals, including Australian biker gangs linked to drug trafficking.
Thailand is also a base for securities fraud operators, known as boiler room share scam, where foreign expatriates, including those from the UK and the US, target Australia and New Zealand investors scamming thousands of dollars in fake online investments.
Feakin said co-operation was directed to "upskilling the digital forensics capability of the Royal Thai Police" to ensure evidence was credible when presented at court.
"To get the evidence, how you secure it, to a degree that it is admissible in a court and then, what is your investigative processes to actually try and fine the individual or group who may be responsible," he said.
Officials told AAP that support to Thai police was a "cornerstone of digital forensics about capturing electronic evidence on various devices, how to process and extract data" in the wake of what it called increasingly transnational crime investigations centred on the use of digital media for communications and the storing of information by organised crime gangs.
The agreement with Thailand comes after the recent signing of a pact between Australia and Singapore on cybersecurity, which includes the exchange of information, training, and joint exercises in safeguarding critical information infrastructure.
The two countries signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday during the second Singapore-Australia Leaders' Summit in the city-state, which was witnessed by both prime ministers -- Singapore's Lee Hsien Loong and Australia's Malcolm Turnbull.
The two-year agreement -- led by Singapore's Cyber Security Agency -- will see the countries work together on several key areas, including information exchange on cybersecurity incidents and threats, sharing of best practices to drive cybersecurity innovation, and training in relevant skillsets.
Australia agreed to enhanced cybersecurity cooperation with China in April, which will see neither country conduct or support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, trade secrets, or confidential business information with the intent of obtaining competitive advantage against each other.
Both countries also agreed to act in accordance with the reports of the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on cyber, including the norms of responsible state behaviour in cyberspace identified by those reports, a statement from Turnbull said.
In addition, the two countries agreed to establish a "mechanism" to discuss cybersecurity and cyber crime issues, in a bid to prevent cyber incidents that could create problems between Australia and China.
"What you saw through the agreement that we signed with China was an acknowledgement that it needs to be a key part of discussions together," Feakin said this week. "China is a huge economic partner. There are some [similarities], there are some differences."
"[The fact] that we got to a point of signing an agreement which said we agree to not conduct cyber-enabled intellectual property theft -- I think it's a good point."
The Australia-China cyber cooperation arrangement follows a meeting between Turnbull and Premier Li Keqiang during the latter's visit to Australia in March, which raised cyber-enabled intellectual property theft issues.
The March meetings included the establishment of a memorandum of understanding on intellectual property that was signed between the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China and IP Australia.
The Australian government also signed a formal "Dialogue on Innovation" agreement with China in March that will see both countries exchange ideas between government representatives, business, and the research sector.
Under the arrangement, both countries will contribute up to AU$6 million over three years to the next round of the Joint Research Centres, under the Australia-China Science and Research Fund (ACSRF), which supports strategic science, technology, and innovation collaboration considered of mutual benefit to both countries.
It is expected the funding will focus mainly on advanced manufacturing, medical technologies and pharmaceuticals, and resources and energy.
Similarly, Australia signed a treaty-level Science, Research, and Innovation Cooperation Agreement with the New Zealand government in February that will see the countries work together to tackle chronic disease, advance general health care, and improve the accuracy and availability of GPS signals.
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Three men accused of killing three French tourists in Mauritania back in 2007 deny the charges but nevertheless told a court they considered themselves to be al Qaeda warriors at the opening of their trail on Sunday.
AFP - Three men accused of killing four French tourists in Mauritania in 2007 told the start of their trial on Sunday that they considered themselves Al-Qaeda warriors.
"I am a soldier of Al-Qaeda, I say it with pride. I have been trained in their camps," Sidi Ould Sidna, one of the three defendants, told the trial in the Mauritanian capital.
"I did not kill them but I confess that it would have been a great honour if I had carried it out," said another, Ould Maarouf Ould Haiba.
Along with Mohamed Ould Chabarnou, they entered pleas of not guilty of shooting five French tourists on December 24 2007 near the city of Aleg in southern Mauritania. Four died and the fifth was seriously wounded.
Security was tight in Nouakchott as the court opened its proceedings, with police blocking off streets in the city centre.
Sidi Ould Sidna and Mohamed Ould Chabarnou were arrested in January 2008 in the West African country of Guinea-Bissau with the help of French intelligence.
Maarouf Ould Haiba was detained shortly after in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott.
All three Mauritanians were suspected of belonging to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which has claimed a series of attacks and kidnappings in North Africa.
Nine other people are on trial for complicity in the killings. Two of the 12 are on the run and were being tried in absentia.
On Sunday morning, the same court sentenced a man charged with links to Al-Qaeda's North African wing to 10 years in prison.
Dahoud Ould Setti, who was also fined 731 euros (918 dollars), was accused of "creating his own terrorist organisation" and having been "in contact with the local branch of AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb)" in Mauritania.
Police arrested Setti in June 2008 after he had been on the run for a long period. He pleaded not guilty in his trial.


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Lesbians Guess Whether Porn Stars Are Straight Or Lesbian, But Should Sex Acts Constitute Identity? — VIDEO
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It's no secret that most mainstream porn is created with a very specific audience in mind — namely, straight men. As a result, a huge amount of porn found under the "lesbian" category isn't necessarily made for actual lesbians, or by them. A new YouTube video released by lesbian YouTuber Arielle Scarcella capitalizes on this fact; titled "Lesbians Guess: Straight Girls or Gay Girls in P*rn," the video features — you guessed it — lesbians watching various porn videos and trying to guess the sexuality of the women starring in them based off how they have sex with their partners. Some of them make immediate, sweeping judgments saying things like, "The blonde girl is straight for sure," or, "She kissed it, that's a gay thing to do"; other times, they describe the women as "iffy" or "probably curious." In fact, there appear to be an awful lot of do's and don'ts required to convincingly perform lesbian sex in porn.
The "rules" of being a convincing lesbian in porn according to the video require performers to: Visibly look like you're into having sex with your female partners, be into kissing her vagina, be visibly appreciative, put your hair in a ponytail so you don't get lady fluids all over it, finger other ladies with consistency, and have good form. Some red flags and causes for judgement include French fisting, looking like they're acting, unusual or particularly large-looking toys, or poorly executed fingering.
But it can sometimes be entertaining to watch one group of people attempt to identify another group of people based off of nothing more than a video — while it's true that a lot of porn intended to depict lesbian sex stars straight women and is created for a straight gaze — Scarcella's video also drives home this very important point: Sex acts shouldn't actually be considered a marker for sexuality. In fact, Scarcella says it herself at the end of the video: "How we express our sexuality has nothing to do with our sexual orientation .... How can we know how someone identifies based on how they act in bed?" We can't — and that's the whole point. We're not the ones who get to decide how someone else identifies.
I myself as a queer woman have fallen victim to adhering to this kind of narrative. Often when I go out and my friends ask me to identify whether another girl is gay, I — not unlike the girls in Scarcella's video — make sweeping judgements like, "Oh, her nails are long — she can't possibly be gay," or, "A gay girl wouldn't be caught dead in that outfit." I and many other women who like women have also made bold claims about how other girls have sex, saying this like, "Scissoring totally doesn't exist," or, "Lesbians don't like anal." While statements like this may have statistical or numerical value, they cannot be used to categorize the behaviors, sexual or otherwise, of all lesbians. These kinds of narratives undermine female sexuality and the complexities behind each and every identity, and perpetuate harmful stereotypes that can isolate lesbian, bisexual, and other non-hetero women, making them believe there's something wrong with them or that they're not normal.
The issue also, in this case, becomes one of feminism. We're essentially policing these women and deciding what they can do with their bodies to fit a particular mold. Why should I get to decide what makes someone else a lesbian? Why should anyone get to decide someone's identity based on her body or her choices? There's no such thing as a "real lesbian." The phrase itself reminds me of a campaign I used to see a lot when I was younger describing "real men." One specific visual that stands out in my mind is one that read, "Real men give up one-night stands for a woman they can't live without." While the sentiment to find a woman you love a lot is nice, it pushes a certain socially constructed, moral code or agenda onto men. Can gay men not be real men? Can men opposed to marriage not be real men? Can men in consenting non-monogomous relationships not be real men? So, then, in a similar vein can lesbians who have anal not be real lesbians? Or can women who have a lot of sex not be real women?
It's time to start moving on as societies and individuals from harmful generalizations. We need to start understanding that identity, sexuality, and sex and complicated, non-binary things. Besides, stereotypes are so yesterday.
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This article lists lakes with a water volume of more than 100 km3, ranked by volume. The volume of a lake is a difficult quantity to measure. Generally, the volume must be inferred from bathymetric data by integration. Lake volumes can also change dramatically over time and during the year, especially for salt lakes in arid climates. For these reasons, and because of changing research, information on lake volumes can vary considerably from source to source. The base data for this article are from The Water Encyclopedia (1990). Where volume data from more recent surveys or other authoritative sources have been used, that usage is referenced in the respective entry. The total volume of Earth's lakes is 199,000 km3.

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The volumes of the lakes below vary little by season.  This list does not include reservoirs; if it did, six reservoirs would appear on the list: Lake Kariba at 26th, Bratsk Reservoir, Lake Volta, Lake Nasser, Manicouagan Reservoir, and Lake Guri.

Estuaries and lagoons are not included either. Examples: Lake Melville (estuary) and Lake Maracaibo (lagoon), comparable with Lagoa dos Patos.

In 1960, the Aral Sea was the world's twelfth-largest known lake by volume, at . However, by 2007 it had shrunk to 10% of its original volume and was divided into three lakes, none of which are large enough to appear on this list.

By continent
 Africa: Lake Tanganyika
 Antarctica: Lake Vostok
 Asia: Caspian Sea
 Australia: Lake Eyre
 Europe: Lake Ladoga
 North America: Lake Superior
 Oceania: Lake Te Anau
 South America: Lake Titicaca

See also

 List of lakes by depth
 List of lakes by area
 List of largest lakes of Europe

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If it isn't already planned, it would be great to implement the figure of a nurse at the emergency department entrance that assign priority codes (red, yellow, green /priority 1 2 3) to patients. And patients with high will be treated first.
Hi, we indeed have a priority system (also with three levels assigned to arriving patients). Interesting point about the color coding, I guess it's mostly used in disasters/mass casualty situations.
The most two used systems are colors and number. Colors are used also in hospital, not only in mass casualty or ambulance dispatch. Eg. a miocardial infarction is a red code/priority 1.
In the picture there is an example of a colour and numeric triage.
Yes, this is called Manchester Triage System and, afaik, it's a very popular method of classification of arriving patients at ER units. Usually done by the most experienced nurse in ER.
120 minute wait time in ER, ouch. Almost all hospitals in my state have wait times under an hour. The triage system looks interesting though and I definitely think it would add more depth and immersion into the game.


Do Nardelli's Actions Warrant Selling Home Depot?
Home Depot's recent annual meeting went pretty horribly if you are a shareholder. For CEO Bob Nardelli, it probably went pretty well. He refused to answer any questions, didn't reveal the results of the shareholder votes, and after 30 minutes he bolted for his private jet. None of the other board members were there because Nardelli told them to stay home.
Now I don't own Home Depot stock personally, or for my clients, but a lot of people do. Should investors sell the stock after these recent developments? After reading about how Nardelli ran the meeting, I want to say "yes." However, the stock is pretty darn cheap. That doesn't mean I would give it a ringing endorsement. After all, Nardelli's recent actions sure do smell of guilt (of what exactly, I'm not sure, maybe excessive pay, maybe just embarrassment). Trading at 11 times fiscal 2007 earnings, HD shares seem to have limited downside from their current $37 quote.
Share price valuation aside, should his excessive compensation scare investors off? To me, this issue is very difficult. Is Nardelli worth $120 million over 5 years? Of course not. But is Alex Rodriguez worth $250 million over 10 years? Doubtful. These two men are essentially being paid the same amount to do their jobs and the average American finds compensation like this to be completely unfair.
In the baseball world, salaries are determined by what the market will bear. Since fans are willing to pay money to see athletes play, paying them high salaries can actually result in the team earning a profit, so the high salary is "worth it" to the team owner. It's the market-based economy. It's capitalism.
Is A-Rod's job more important than a school teachers' job? Not at all. However, there are many more people who can teach than can play all-star caliber third base, and nobody is willing to pay $50 to watch someone teach a math class for three hours.
Now I'm not saying A-Rod deserves $25 million and I'm not saying that school teachers don't deserve to earn more money. But, since how much someone makes is not up to me, I have to simply understand why the system is working the way it is.
As for executive compensation, it is a much more difficult issue to tackle. How much is Bob Nardelli worth to Home Depot? I have no idea how we can begin to figure this out. Therefore, I have no idea how much CEO pay is fair. Are chief executives in this country overpaid? Absolutely. But what is the right number? I just don't know.
I can tell you one thing, though. In my opinion, stock price performance should not be the only determinant of executive compensation levels. Many are saying that the fact that Home Depot stock has fallen since Nardelli took over in late 2000 proves that he is overpaid. I have to take issue with this.
In Nardelli's first five full years as CEO, it is true that the stock fell 8%, from $43.88 on 01/01/01 to $40.33 on 12/31/05. However, such poor performance is Nardelli's fault. Sales during those five years rose 52% to $81.5 billion. Net income and earnings per share fared even better, rising 93% and 111%, respectively.
The poor performance of HD stock is simply due to the fact that the stock was overvalued in 2001, trading at 34 times forward earnings. Investors who bought shares then and lost 8% over the subsequent five years have nobody to blame for that except themselves.
All in all, Bob Nardelli has done a very good job running Home Depot. The only problem is, we really don't know how much that is worth to the company's shareholders in terms of compensation. All we know is that $120 million sounds like a lot when the median family is America earned less than 1/500th of that amount during the same period.


Is anyone interested in joining fellow moorers for a coach trip to Crick Boat Show? The Show takes place between the 2nd and 5th June 2012, and is the only major inland waterways show this year. Please indicate your interest on the poster on the noticeboard in the Marina Reception or call or email the Marina Office on 01270 812677.


I posted earlier on 11th July about a track bike which I saw at the Scottish Cycle Museum in the Stableyard at Drumlanrig Castle. I spent a few enjoyable hours looking at the bikes. I have to confess that I have no real interest in early machines such as Hobbyhorses or Ordinaries. I accept that some people do have an interest and I acknowledge that without them, we wouldn't have the machines we use today. I suppose my interest in bicycles and cycling was shaped by the people I knew growing up, some of whom who had cycled from the first decade of the 20th century. I was more interested in hearing how the custom built lightweight bicycle had developed following the Great War.
This was the machine that I could relate to, from my own experience of cycling. It was interesting, as a teenager, hearing tales of marques of machines and how folk cycled in the 1920s and 1930s.
Having grown up in a cycling family, I was well versed in my parents experience of cycling after WW2. So my interest in cycling only goes back around 90 years.
I was very interested to see the examples of bicycles made by some of the Scottish framebuilders. Flying Scot are well known, but there were others builders, not only in Glasgow, but outside the central corridor.
I was particularly interested in the bottom bracket detail on the Lindsay of Dundee Scottish made bike, as the same detail was also found on some of the Leach Marathon frames, built by Bill Leach, a London builder.
I really enjoyed the display of Scottish made machines and I would loved to have tried one or two, just to see how they rode.
Another bicycle which caught my eye was a pre WW2 Granby. I was able to see it had the frame number stamped into the underside of the fork crown and had the Granby designed rear dropouts.
More recent developments weren't ignored and there were two cast magnesium Kirk Precision frames there, a complete road bike and the MTB version – frame only.
Mark Beaumont's Koga Miyata bike that he rode around the world to break the record on was also on display.
If you are ever in or near Thornhill, the cycle museum at Drumlanrig Castle is well worth a visit.


Thomas Ramsøy is a leading expert on neuromarketing and consumer neuroscience. With an academic background in economics, neuropsychology, neurobiology, and neuroimaging, Thomas is the founder of the applied neuroscience company, Neurons, Inc., and the Center for Decision Neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen. He is active in publishing research in scientific journals and serves on the editorial board for leading journals such as Frontiers in Neuroscience, Scientific Reports, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Consumer Psychology.
In this episode, Thomas shares a somewhat different application of neuroscience, as well as insights from his latest book, co-authored with Kyle Nel and Nathan Furr, Leading Transformation: How to Take Charge of Your Company's Future. Listen in to learn how neuroscience can be applied to organizational change and innovation, the positive and negative implications of behavioral design, and what research tells us about the best way to produce positive change.
How neuroscience and behavioral science complement each other.
Thomas' take on the potential backlash about behavioral design.
The impact smartphones have on concentration.
How the state of consumer neuroscience and neuromarketing has changed in the last few years.
Which consumer science tools Thomas used in his research and the distinct way he applied them.
How ambiguous situations affect our brains.
What research tells us about how subtle delays impact brand emotion.
How implicit association tests work and what they could be great for measuring.
Low-cost tools people can use to set up their own implicit association tests.
What neuroprototyping is and how it can be used.
How to produce positive change.
Roger Dooley: Welcome to the Brainfluence Podcast. I'm Roger Dooley. Today, Thomas Zoega Ramsøy joins us for the second time. Thomas has been a pioneer in neuromarketing and consumer neuroscience. His academic background includes economics, neuropsychology, neurobiology and neuroimaging. He founded the Center for Decision Science at the Copenhagen Business School. He's also the founder of Neurons Inc, an applied neuroscience company.
Today, we'll spend at least some of our time on a somewhat different application of neuroscience: organizational change, transformation and innovation. Thomas' latest book co-authored with Kyle Nell and Nathan Furr is Leading Transformation: How to Take Charge of your Company's Future. We spoke with Kyle Already. If you missed that episode, check it out. Kyle offers some interesting stories about how Lowe's went from being a stodgy home and building products company to being an innovator in virtual and augmented reality.
Thomas Ramsøy: Thank you. Thanks, for having me again. It's great to be here.
Roger Dooley: Thomas, before we get on to the ideas in your new book, I'd be interested in your take on the state of consumer neuroscience, neuromarketing if you prefer. You've got both an academic and a business perspective on this. How has the field changed in the last few years? Or has it?
Thomas Ramsøy: Yeah, I think it definitely is changing. Maybe not at the pace and the direction we always hope it will but, and for the better. I think the general take home is that it's going better than we've seen these kind of hype cycles through the couple of decades or 15 years or so. We see today that the vendors are becoming better at demonstrating exactly what their metrics are and how they have validated those metrics. We also see that the clients on the client side, people are getting much more educated on how to use applied neuroscience and consumer neuroscience methods. We also see that the science itself is moving forward. I think that, on all these counts, there have been … We've been lagging behind some kind of optimal standard.
For example, in academia, there's been long between … There's been a lotta publications but many of the publications have been mostly theoretical and meta theoretical, so they looked at the possibilities of consumer neuroscience. Now, we see more and more of that and applied researchers coming to the fore. People are actually demonstrating the added value of neuroscience and consumer psychology.
Roger Dooley: Mm-hmm (affirmative), so you're actually seeing academic publications now dealing with this? I think for a while, academics were scared of the field because it was sort of a pseudoscience thing that, if you started trying to do some serious work in that field, your work might get dismissed as being superficial or somehow questionable. Is that attitude changing?
Thomas Ramsøy: I think so. I think that, on the long side, we see … Still, of course, we're meeting academics that still think that, if you're doing anything that has a flavor of commercial uses, then they shy away. We also see the other thing, which surprises me a little bit, is when we work with clients, which is … Most of the time it's in the U.S. but we do have clients that are, for example, scientists or even neuroscientists themselves. Then, when we're doing studies for them, they are actually proactive in terms of trying to get these data out and published. That comes back to this idea that there should be a divide between applied science and basic science and I don't think that's the case.
This year, for example, in 2018, I think we're running something like almost 10,000 people that we have tested this year. A lot of those data we are actually allowed to do publications on by the clients. I think that's a great step forward.
Roger Dooley: Mm-hmm (affirmative), yeah, that really is. Particularly with the large sample sizes because many of the academic studies that I've seen tend to be very small. They use FMRI, which is a great technology but it's hard to scale that technology to large sample sizes. That's really encouraging, Thomas.
Thomas Ramsøy: Yep, yep, and I'll also say that almost data today is becoming a currency. That also means that, when we have these types of data, we can actually establish collaboration with the academic partners who are very interested in publishing on the data as well. That's something we do here in Europe, for example. We're looking at an E.U. funded project that we put up on a network that these data can be part of academic publications as well.
Roger Dooley: Yeah, I think these cooperations between academics and business can be really valuable. I just was listening to another podcast that talked about a collaboration involving Uber, where Uber obviously has massive amounts of data because constantly there's, I don't know, tens of thousands of rides a day, hundreds of thousands of rides. I'm not sure but huge, huge dataset and they allowed some academics to access that and do some analyses. It's a sort of scale you just can't get in a lab in a university.
I think both sides can benefit, because obviously the business gains some new insights that they wouldn't've had without perhaps that academic input. At the same time, the academics get to do some work that is really significant in scope, so it's great. Glad that's continuing and happening.
Thomas Ramsøy: Yeah, absolutely, me too.
Roger Dooley: Now, so how do neuroscience and behavioral science complement each other, Thomas? It seems like, in the early days of neuro marketing, there was a divide that, if it's not somehow a hard neuroscience tool like EEG or FMRI, it's just not neuro marketing or consumer neuroscience. I've always thought that it was sort of a continuum where the tools of neuroscience give you an understanding of behavior, but the two fields really work together. What's your thought on that?
Thomas Ramsøy: Oh, absolutely. I think … The way I tend to think of it is we do see that in industry, that a lot of people are talking about behavioral design and behavioral economics. There's a huge mapping effort that has been done to map out the different biases that we have, a variety of different types of behavior where we're biased. I think the behavioral economics has been extremely successful. I also think that we have skipped over some questions along the way. We've been very focused on what types of biases we have as humans and been able to pinpoint when that happens and how that happens.
We basically haven't tried to ask the question of why. Why does it happen in the first place? Why do we have these biases? I think that's one side that neuroscience can contribute through a more biological approach, even a tentative and revolutionary approach, to say this happens because this and that. That's at least one step.
The other thing is also that you can think of when we are doing behavioral design, for example we're creating some nudges or some kind of framing effects, it's really important that those effects are present, they are attended, and they have an impact. You can make the best possible behavioral design but, if people don't see it, then it's a waste of time and money. That's one way to think about this neuroscience as a measurement stick, so to speak, is all to say do people actually pay attention to your behavioral design and the elements that you have put so much focus on.
The second thing is do you see that type of response that people have that you want them to have. That's hard to ask people, just ask them a question. It's much easier to do that through passive measurements.
Roger Dooley: Mm-hmm (affirmative), yeah, I always felt it was like a black box with a machine inside it. When neuroscience opens up that black box, it doesn't mean that the machine operates in a different way. Is it like … Some yearly neuro imaging studies, psychologists will again say, "We knew that for the last 50 years." You knew it but you didn't know exactly what was going on. Maybe this greater understanding will help you understand more in the future or perhaps even design interventions and so on.
Do you think there's any kind of a backlash brewing about either behavioral design or neuro marketing? There's certainly a feeling that some companies are exploiting this to hook their users, if you will, to (particularly kids) addict them to games and such. What's your take on that? So far, this isn't really a majority opinion. It's been more of a, I think, a small group of folks agitating about this. Do you think there is a danger for bigger backlash developing?
Thomas Ramsøy: Yeah, I definitely think that we do have an issue. The way I see it most is that things like the smartphone … I think that the smartphone is probably the best example of things that are expertise is put into the smartphone to drive your attention away from whatever you're doing onto the smartphone. You can think of the smartphone as an attention device, an attention-stealing device. That's what it is. It's very good at allowing the apps and the different services that are on the phone to automatically grab your attention.
Now, so I think that one thing that is a problem is that we have become very used to thinking in one respect that we are very much in control over the smartphone. The actual behavior shows that we are responding extremely well to the nudges, the micro nudges, that the phone is giving us for grabbing attention. Even though it takes just a fraction of a time, just a few seconds, to peer down at the phone, it still takes us away from other things that could have been creativity or deep thinking, or just being in the moment for that sake.
I think that is a problem that we see today and I think that people have subjective reports of, let's say, that people have a poor time in focusing and for deep learning for example, I think that this has been known for some time, as we say. We had a study in the preceding National Academy of Sciences in, I think, 15 years ago. It showed that people who are multitasking a lot with different devices, when they are giving people psychological tests for concentration and attention and learning, we see that those people who are heavy multitaskers actually performing worse. That indicates that multitasking between devices is not necessarily a good thing for your concentration.
Roger Dooley: Yeah, so let's talk a little bit about the new book. Thomas, was it a challenge working with your co-authors? I'm just finishing up my second book, second major book, and doing it solo is its own challenge. I would think that coordinating with other folks, particularly since you're more or less the science guy compared to the other two … Was that a challenge for you or did it just flow?
Thomas Ramsøy: That's a good question. I haven't had that question before. There's a push and pull when it comes to enforcing your science at the cost of good story. Of course, that's a part but I think that we've been very much in line from day one. The back side of the story here is that Kyle and I, we started working together for many, many years ago. I think 2012 or 13. We have been building up this momentum for some time. Then we learned to know Nathan as the professor who had put what we had been doing for many years into a more, a better, storytelling frame so to speak, and then more, to some extent, academic frame. Nathan has been publishing books on this topic before as well. That was … I think that we had a great ping pong on the freeway ping pong in generating this story.
I don't think, in most terms, that we've had any issues. Actually, most of this was done in Paris, when we met in Paris to do some jamming and carve out the chapters of the book.
Roger Dooley: Interesting. I'd love to learn more about your methodology, but let's get onto the content of the book, which is probably most interesting to our listeners. You talk, in the book, about applying tools of neuro marketing or consumer neuroscience but not for evaluating ads or marketing, but instead using them to understand how folks operate in organizations and how they respond to change and so on. I want you to describe what tools you used and what sort of things you did.
Thomas Ramsøy: Mm-hmm (affirmative). I think, from the get-go, I think it's important to say we call this more like applying neuroscience, which is more a broader definition of the application of neuroscience tools and insights into applied or a commercial interest for example. Neuro marketing and consumer neuroscience is a part of that but we also are using basically the same approach to innovation, R&D, product testing, for example.
Basically, what we have been doing is that … As Kyle probably mentioned as well, is that there is a challenge in innovation, especially when you want to understand completely new technologies, and especially when you want to test new technologies, how consumers are responding to it. Sometimes you want to test things at the conceptual level. This is when things are just on the drawing board and you just want to understand if consumers are comprehending what's it's about. Do they like that? Does it fill any needs for them?
The second is when you're making prototypes, so early versions of the V.R., the oculus or the HoloLens, for example, or a 3D printer or things like that, before it became a thing. How do people respond to that? Do they understand the functionality? Do they understand the introduction to it and do they adopt it?
Lowe's started doing this. They soon discovered that, just asking people gave you a very limited kind of response. Typically, people would say something like they loved the experience. They thought it was very interesting. They also recognized that people didn't really understand it properly, but they also didn't seem to show later interest in it either. Just using self-report was a poor predictor of actual market responses.
What we ended up with was a combination of mobile eye tracking glasses and mobile EEG system. Then I started off with a few metrics, of course intentional metrics, such as how much time people are spending with something or how many people are paying attention to a certain part of a device or a screen. Then, also looking at their emotional and their comments and responses as well, and then combining that with memory scores and, down the line also, with more sophisticated metrics as well.
Roger Dooley: Yeah, so why don't you dig into that just a little bit deeper, Thomas, and explain how a typical test might run. What people'd be seeing, what would they be looking at and how would you understand whether it was a good thing or not?
Thomas Ramsøy: What we can share, for example, is that we tested … One of the things that Kyle will probably talk about in the broadcast is well is that he established what he called uncommon partnerships. That means that Lowe's had established a collaboration with Microsoft and with Google for example to test the news technologies that they had. Google were working on their Tango, which became part of the A.R. kits. Then, Microsoft, of course, were working on the HoloLens. From a home improvement company, Lowe's had a very specific idea that how can we use these systems to visualize things that people otherwise would have to imagine.
In order to be in the store, show things how they look in the store or in their homes, and then how do people respond to that technology? By using HoloLens for example, or other A.R. devices, and compare that with the Google Tango for example, we can first of all look at how does that stack up relative to being in the sore environment. Standing in the store, looking at different kitchen vignettes and try to imagine how this looks at home is a pretty difficult task because you have to use your mental rotation. You have to think about it, imagining how this looks in your home.
A lot of the time, you're spending imagining and even negotiating with your spouse, for example, how this will look in your house. Instead of using these technologies, you can actually see how it will look in your house. Then it becomes the question how do people respond to these different devices. What we found was that some of the more novel A.R. devices were still better than being in a store environment but people had this overload response.
One of the measures we have is a cognitive load measure. If people are showing too high cognitive load, it means that people are overloaded with information and they're just stressed out. Typically, that leads to a negative emotion response. That's what we very often found when people were trying out these very new A.R. devices. With more phone-based devices, such as the Google Tango, people are used to using their phone. I think that was part of the explanation that we say, that when they used the Tango version, for example, the overload went into more what we call a sweet spot response. People were not stressed and they showed a positive emotional response. They also subjectively supported that by saying that this was a good experience. That allowed Lowe's to navigate both the choice of devices but also iteratively improve the platform again and again.
Roger Dooley: Yeah, in another part of the book, you talk about using the implicit association test, which is pretty common in a whole variety of applications, ranging from academic research to consumer neuroscience and so on. What application did you use that for? Maybe it'd be good to just explain what it is briefly.
Thomas Ramsøy: Sure, so implicit association test is a highly standardized test where people are normally … At least the standard version of it is that people are given a task to report whether a word is positive or negative. It could be love or hate for example. You respond whether something is positive or negative to them. Showing something prior to that, it could be a word. It could also be a stimulus. Or a brand, for example, can have an impact on how people respond, both in terms of how many errors they make but also in small adjustments like in a few hundred milliseconds of adjustments that they make in their responses to the actual task, the word they get.
For example, if you're given the word love, you're inclined of course … You should be responding that's a positive word. If you have just seen a negative word or a brand that you hat, then you are in this micro-emotional state and then it takes you just a slight few hundred milliseconds to readjust and then report that the love word is a positive word. That is so reliable, so to speak, that you can use that as a measurement of implicit attitudes if you like. This has been used for implicit racism. It's been used for in-group/out-group comparisons traditionally. We also see it a lot being used in branding.
Roger Dooley: I'll just interject in Malcolm Gladwell's book, Blank, he talks a lot about that and how he found that even he had some racist leanings, although, the were … He was not aware of them and certainly consciously was a very liberal, accepting guy. More lately, it's been in the news too we have these issues of police perhaps treating different races differently, and with some fatal results occasionally. That too gets pegged by this implicit testing where these officers may not be consciously discriminating against minorities or they may even be minorities themselves, but still there's this pre-supposition of maybe what a criminal looks like that ends up influencing their snap decisions. The implicit association test is one way of measuring those attitudes.
Roger Dooley: Yeah, it sounds like Tajfel's research in in-groups and out-groups. Interesting.
Thomas Ramsøy: Exactly. Yeah, but you also asked about the type of method we're using. Of course, this is possible to do in an online scenario but we don't really work in an online scenario. This is something that we program and we are running ourselves as a pretty straightforward way to program. We run this in one way or the other. It could be an open sesame program for example, so a python-based program. Because the only thing we need to have is a reliable presentation of the stimulus and then we need to have reliable assessment of the response time that people have.
One interesting thing that we've found, and this isn't published yet but this is something we hope to publish very soon, is that, when we have done combination of the response time implicit association test and done EEG recordings at the same time looking at emotional responses, we see that there's actually a slight diversions between what response time-based measures are showing. It seems that, when people are doing the response time measures for the implicit association, that seems to be a little bit more rational rather than emotional. We see that the implicit association changes that are happening looking at the EEG responses seems to be slightly different. Some potential interest in finding there, we're going to dig a little bit into that as well.
Roger Dooley: Mm-hmm (affirmative), yeah, I would guess that implicit association could be great for measuring things like attitudes toward a brand. Or even like in some of the stuff you're talking about, where people may say they like a new product, describe, "I'd really love to put on virtual reality goggles and see what my kitchen would look like," but if they … They might have a different feeling internally or unconsciously that, oh, man, this sounds scary or complicated. IAT could end up showing.
Thomas Ramsøy: Yeah, exactly, and I think one thing that is interesting with that is that we even have people understand the concepts and they're very excited about that, and that's great. Then the execution … For example, if you do this in an oculus, let's say that the execution of it is horrible and it's buggy and it's laggy and people actually … It's not enough for people to put their finger on that. In several studies we've done for Erickson and Vodafone, for example, we found that delays in different contexts, on a smartphone or if it's a V.R. headset, those subtle delays are enough to trigger a horrible response to people. It actually leads to a negative response to people's brand emotions afterwards as well.
Roger Dooley: I'm curious, since the IAT is basically just like a little timing test, it seems like something that would be very inexpensive to do. If any of our listeners want to try this, do you know are there any free or really cheap tools that people can use to set up their own IAT tests?
Thomas Ramsøy: I know that … We know the Sentient Science people. They definitely have demos that they can go online and see. Then, I think that there are certainly, if you just google implicit association test, there are several different types of testing they can go to as well. On top of that, through the book page we have, which is called LeadingTransformationBook.com, there are … We're going to put up some links there to different types of tools like that as well.
Roger Dooley: Great, awesome. Thomas, talk a little bit about neuro prototyping. That sounds like a new word for the dictionary. What is neuro prototyping?
Thomas Ramsøy: It basically is what it is, what it says. It's the use of neuroscience as a way to measure how people respond to prototypes. This goes back to exactly Lowe's' challenge, for example, or Ikea's challenge that we tested a year ago, which was how do people respond to completely new prototypes that they haven't tried before. Or how do they respond to concepts of prototypes, a new innovation, that they have not seen before. You can imagine, the smartphone before the smartphone or even television before television, for example. How do people respond to technology they have not conceived of before? How does that translate into whether they will adopt it or not?
We've used to since 2013 and 12; 12/13. We've been using this tool to test virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D printing, human/robot interaction and many, many other types of inventions, to see how people and consumers in particular, are responding to these new devices. It's basically using the same kind of metrics that we use in neuro marketing. It's attention. It's emotional responses. It's cognitive responses, but it's now applied to how people respond to these new solutions.
Roger Dooley: Thomas, in the book, the whole consumer testing piece is a subplot in the overall thrust of the book in having to do with transforming organizations, creating an innovative culture. Changing the way an organization does things isn't easy. I think most people tend to be somewhat resistant to change, particularly as it affects their own behaviors. When a leader proposes new approaches, new ways of doing things, you can almost visualize the antibodies gathering to attack the unfamiliar idea. What were your insights on how to deal with this and produce change in a way that's positive and doesn't require changing out to people?
Thomas Ramsøy: Right, I think the first thing I had to learn … I came to this field, innovation, assuming that the companies that I was meeting were just completely in control when it came to innovation. We're not talking about just incremental improvements on existing solutions. That would just be another app or anything. This is disruptive new innovation. If you take a little step back and say, "Why do these big fortune 50 and fortune 500 companies and big legacy corporations … Why are they doing disruptive innovation?" Part of the motivation for doing that is because they are … I wouldn't say freaking out but they're at least … They're very aware of new technologies and new solutions that are generating every single day, that are posing as a threat to them, to their very foundation of existence.
The good examples here being Kodak being overrun by Instagram for example, and Nokia being overrun by the iPhone in its time. These are classical examples. That's the … At the c-suite level of companies, you have … How can I put it? A lot of interest in ensuring that people … That they're not overrun tomorrow, that they're not taken over by some new innovation.
The problem was, when I came to this field, was that I assumed that people were totally in control. What we found out was that ambiguity in itself, that the thing about thinking about the future, not just one year down the line but 10 years down the line, five years down the line, is very uncertain. If it's one thing that the brain is responding negatively to, it's uncertainty. We see that even studies have looked at how the brain is responding to uncertainty.
We see structures like the amygdala for example being more engaged by uncertainty and uncertain decisions rather than risky decisions, and also a lot of avoidance behaviors and loss aversion behaviors for example.
Roger Dooley: Yeah, so, just to repeat that point, what you're saying is that a known risky situation may be more appealing to our brain than a less risky but more ambiguous situation.
Thomas Ramsøy: Yeah, they're both negative, so to speak, but the ambiguous situation does trigger a stronger response, a fear response if you like and a stronger fear behavior, or avoidance behavior.
That allows us to have the same language along the way and it allows us to have measurement sticks along the way. We're breaking that moonshot down into smaller jumps. I think that's been the big leap in what we have proposed as neuro prototyping, as a measurement stick for big leap innovation.
Roger Dooley: Basically, trying to reduce that ambiguity.
Roger Dooley: Right, and I would imagine, too, some of the other … Any time that you can assign data to stuff or do a demonstration in a lab, that would also, I think, have that same effect, where it's a little bit more tangible than speculating when you can actually … Even if the test is not totally representative or if … It doesn't have to be perfect but if it … It's like I recall research showing that, when you included a chart in an academic paper or an article, it was seen to be more credible than without the chart. Actually the same thing for brain scans in neuroscience articles, that even if they were not relevant, somehow they increase credibility. Not that you're trying to manipulate your audience but I think that, if you can provide some data, it will reduce that fear of ambiguity.
Thomas Ramsøy: Absolutely, and I think that what we have seen throughout this entire process as both with the creative teams, the executive teams, having data … It's not that it solves everything for them but it helps structure the discussion around the table. Instead of having everyone has their own favorite around the table and then it's a discussion about what do we like and what do we don't like, it becomes a structured discussion, in terms of your solution here is great but people don't pay attention to it. Or people do pay attention to it but they're confused, cognition load is off the charts. It helps structuring that discussion.
Roger Dooley: Very good. I want to be respectful of your time here Thomas, so let me remind our listeners that we're speaking with Thomas Zoega Ramsøy, co-author of the new book Leading Transformation: How to Take Charge of Your Company's Future. Thomas, how can people find you and your ideas?
Thomas Ramsøy: The easiest is to go … on this book, is to go to leadingtransformatoinbook.com. That would be a lot of things related to the book. I think there's even the color version of the or a cartoon version of the book, there as well. People can go check it out. The other thing is to go to neurosinc.com. That is a company webpage that I founded and it's actually driving a lot of these actual tests that have been part of this book. Otherwise, I'm happy to connect on LinkedIn and that would be … I think it's T. Z. Ramsøy is my handle.
Roger Dooley: I think it'll be easy to find but, in any case, we will link to all those places and to any other resources we spoke about on the show notes page at Roger Dooley.com/podcast. We'll have a text version of our conversation there as well.
Thomas, thanks for being on the show. It's always interesting and informative to talk with you.
Thomas Ramsøy: Great. Thanks, Roger. Always a pleasure to be here.


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Mrs Charity Robins
Home Titanic Victims Mrs Charity Robins (née Lawry)
Mrs Charity Robins, née Lawry 1, was born in St Mewan, Cornwall, England in late 1863/early 1864 2.
She was the daughter of James Lawry (1825-1899), a miner, and Susanna Nancarrow (1824-1891). Her father failed from St Ewe, Cornwall and her mother from St Austell and they were married in 1847. She had eight known siblings: William (b. 1849), Thomas (b. 1850), Hannah (b. 1852), James (b. 1854), Jane (b. 1858), John (b. 1859), Walter (b. 1862) and Mary Ann (b. 1868).
She appears on the 1871 census living at Union Road in St Austell with her family.
In late 1880, aged just 16, she was married to Alexander Robins (b. 1861), a stonemason from St Austell. Their first child, Alice Ann, was born early the following year and the couple were living with Alexander's parents in St Austell by the time of the 1881 census.
The couple would have nine children in total, only two living past infancy. Their firstborn, Alice, died in 1883 and their two surviving children were Beatrice Annie (b. 1886) and Alexander (b. 1890).
The couple later left British shores around 1886 and settled in Yonkers, New York where they would appear on census records from 1900 through to 1910 although it seems they made several trips back to England. Alexander continued to work as a stonemason whilst in Yonkers.
Alexander and Charity returned to Cornwall for a family visit in early 1912 and were returning to the USA travelling third class on the Titanic under ticket number 3337 which had cost them £14, 10s. Also returning with them was Charity's nephew William Henry Nancarrow.
Mrs Robins died in the sinking, her body, and that of her husband was subsequently recovered by the MacKay Bennett.
NO. 7. - FEMALE - ESTIMATED AGE, 6O. - HAIR, GREY.
CLOTHING - Blue waterproof; black skirt and undershirt; white undervest and Chemise; black lawn shoes and black stockings; set false upper teeth.
EFFECTS - 1 gold ring; 1 wedding ring, and 1 diamond ring; purse "A. Robins" 2nd class ticket Olympic, 145; gold watch and chain; 2 receipted accounts and excess luggage ticket Plymouth, Great Western docks; £60 in 5 notes and other coins.
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NAME - Mrs A. ROBINS.
The remains were taken to her daughter who was living at 24 Garfield Street, Yonkers. She and her husband were interred at Oakland Cemetery, Yonkers.
Her daughter Beatrice, known as Annie, was married to Patrick Curtin of Pennsylvania and remained in Yonkers where she raised a family. She died in Yonkers in 1965.
Her son Alexander had been married on 7 January 1912 in Yonkers to Julia Lee (b. 1890), a native of Ireland, raising a family and remaining in Yonkers where he worked as a steam fitter. He died in 1966.
Frequently misidentified as Grace Charity Laury/Lawry, a Penzance native who was not the same woman who was on Titanic.
Birth registered in St Austell in first quarter of 1864.
GRAVE OF ALEXANDER AND CHARITY ROBINS
Western Morning News (1912)
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ROBINS' PLANNE TO SETTLE IN NATIVE TOWN
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Name: Mrs Charity Robins (née Lawry)
Born:circa.1864 Born in St. Austell, Cornwall, England
Age: 48 years (Female)
Marital Status: Married to Alexander A. Robins
Last Residence: in St. Austell, Cornwall, England
Ticket No. 3337, £14 10s
Destination: Yonkers, New York, United States
Body recovered by: Mackay-Bennett (No. 7)
Buried: Oakland Cemetery Yonkers, New York, United States
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