Sexist jokes favor the mental mechanisms that justify violence against women
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It seems inconcurous that this rather depressing sounding piece of research have to come out of what, on the surface, seems like a jolly old meeting: the ‘International Summer School and Symposium on Humour and Laughter: Theory, Research and Applications’ at the University fo Granada?
Just take four or so cubes of frozen black coffee [the left overs from your espresso boiler or the like], pop them in the jam-jar
(or cocktail shaker), smash them up a bit with a pestle, add semi-skimmed milk, shake hard until the ice begins to mingle with the milk and pour into a glass or cup. Or into a vacuum flask so you can take it to the park
Lasith Malinga: a duck-billed platypus
The male duck-billed platypus has poisonous spurs on its ankles. Like Malinga, there’s danger there, and it comes from much lower down than you expect it to.
Reviewers and editors are empowered to ask for almost anything they can imagine. Gedanken experiments that are dreamed up on the fly condemn researchers to weeks of additional work that produces incremental bits of information to be relegated to Supplemental Siberia. If we refuse, we will very likely risk finding our paper degraded to an ever more `specialized’ journal. We dread the response: `Thank you for resubmitting your manuscript. In light of the disappointing assessment by reviewers, we suggest you consider submitting your now extensively revised paper, which we must have once thought sort of interesting, to the Journal of Experiments that Time Forgot (J. Exp. Time Forg.)’.
