Today we discuss how recycling used personal protective equipment can make stronger concrete, a rise in ADHD symptoms among male weightlifters who take steroids, and the battle of the sexes among male and female butterflies!
PPE Concrete
- “PPE can be recycled to make stronger concrete” by Gosia Kaszubska and Will Wright
- https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2022/august/ppe-concrete
- “Recycled PPE could strengthen concrete” by The Engineer
- https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/recycled-ppe-could-strengthen-concrete
Steroid Use and ADHD
- “ADHD symptoms and use of anabolic androgenic steroids among male weightlifters” by Emilie Kildal, Bjørnar Hassel & Astrid Bjørnebekk
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12977-w#:~:text=AAS%20use%20among%20weightlifters%20is,drug%20prevention%20strategies%20in%20sports.
- “ADHD symptoms are more prevalent in male weightlifters who use steroids, study finds” by Patricia Y. Sanchez
- https://www.psypost.org/2022/08/adhd-symptoms-are-more-prevalent-in-male-weightlifters-who-use-steroids-study-finds-63795
Butterfly Chastity
- “In butterfly battle of sexes, males deploy ‘chastity belts’ but females fight back” by Halle Marchese and Natalie van Hoose
- https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/male-butterflies-deploy-chastity-belts/
- “Is Sexual Conflict a Driver of Speciation? A Case Study With a Tribe of Brush-footed Butterflies” by Ana Paula S Carvalho, Ryan A St Laurent, Emmanuel F A Toussaint, Caroline Storer, Kelly M Dexter, Kwaku Aduse-Poku, and Akito Y Kawahara
- https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/70/3/413/5901062?login=false
- “Ruff Sex: A Chastity Belt for Dogs” by Buck Wolf
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110410200915/http://www.aolnews.com/2010/02/08/ruff-sex-a-chastity-belt-for-dogs/
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