Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Tue, 7 Aug 2012 17:00:00 PDT Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100907/23180510930/dailydirt-more-olympic-trivia.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100907/23180510930/dailydirt-more-olympic-trivia.shtml

The speed of sound is apparently too slow for the Olympics now, so the starting pistols have been replaced by electronic beeps. Perhaps there shouldn't be a starting pistol at all, and the judges should simply measure when the athletes start and finish? [url]

Robotic cameras are catching more action at the Olympics. Not too surprising that cameramen can't run alongside Olympic athletes and keep up.... [url]

The modern pentathlon is using laser pistols instead of real guns this year. No sound effects like "pew pew pew!" will be tolerated from the audience. [url]

While the testing for performance enhancing drugs has generated some controversy, the testing of athlete gender seems a bit trickier to handle. Does a person with XXY compete in the male or female events? [url]

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Japanese scientists have grown mice sperm cells in a test tube. Someday, this could either cure male infertility... or completely obviate the need for men, depending on how you look at it. [url]

Dilbert-creator Scott Adams sparked a bit of debate over the men's rights movement. Adams should know better than to compare women to the mentally handicapped -- even if he wrote it in a tongue-in-cheek way. [url]

The sense of touch can affect how people perceive gender. We'll leave it to the comments to come up with a joke about how squeezing a soft ball tends to get people to classify a face as female... [url]

Men in the US are becoming less educated than their female peers, but they don't have to commit to long-term relationships as much. The laws of supply and demand affect relationships, too. [url]

To discover more interesting gender-related issues, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]  

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