Emma 'most dangerous' celebrity to search online

Harry Potter star Emma Watson is the favorite celebrity bait for cyber criminals trying to lure Internet users, a report has said.

This makes Watson the ‘most dangerous’ celebrity to search for online, said Web security company McAfee.

MacAfee said many sites use her name to trick users into downloading malicious software or to steal personal information, the Daily Express reports.

When searching for the 22-year-old actress there is a one-in-eight chance of landing on a malicious site, the security firm said.

This is the sixth time the Intel-owned security technology company has conducted the study, which was last year topped by Heidi Klum.

Others among the riskiest celebrities to search online are Jessica Biel, Eva Mendes, Selena Gomez and Halle Berry, the report said

Now, send a long-distance kiss with 'kissinger'

If you"re missing your partner and fancy a smooch , a new messaging device can help you fulfil your wish.

The device dubbed Kissenger and unveiled at the Designing Interactive Systems conference in Newcastle, UK, in June, lets users send kisses wirelessly to one another. Developed by Singapore-based Lovotics, Kissenger comprises a pair of pressure-sensitive soft plastic lips, which protrude through a smooth plastic casing the size of a large Easter egg.
The lips contain pressure sensors and actuators. When you kiss them, the shape changes you create are transmitted in real time over the net to a receiving Kissenger.
There, the actuators reproduce the mirror image of the pressure patterns you created- magically transmitting your smacker to your partner.
"People have found it a very positive way to improve intimacy in communications with their partners when they are apart," New Scientist quoted Hooman Samani of Lovotics, as saying.
The device is a prototype and Samani said it would not be commercialised until "all the ethical and technical considerations are covered".

Also he has pointed that he’s not interested in sexual uses for it.

Sports drinks do not boost energy, can cause obesity

You might want to throw out your stock of sports drinks after reading this.

According to researchers from Oxford University, claims of sports drinks to boost energy not only lack evidence, but high intake of these drinks can also cause weight gain.
The study published in the British Medical Journal assessed the evidence behind 431 performance enhancing claims in adverts for 104 different sports products including sports drinks, protein shakes and trainers. In case where evidence from adverts was not clear, researchers asked for information from various manufacturers. It found only 2.7% of the information supplied to be of high quality and at low risk of bias.
"This absence of high quality evidence is worrying," researchers said.
Also, no substantial evidence was found to suggest that liquid is any better than solid carbohydrate intake.
"As sports drinks rise in popularity among children, there is concern their consumption is contributing to obesity levels," researchers said.
"Far from sports drinks turning casual runners into Olympic athletes, if they avoided the sports drink they would get thinner and run faster," Professor Tim Noakes, Discovery health chair of exercise and sports science at Cape Town University said.
"No one single food or drink alone is responsible for people being overweight or obese. All foods and soft drinks can have a place in a sensible, balanced diet, as long as over time you do not take in more calories than you burn," a soft drink company said.

Hug machine proves to be huge hit in Singapore

The innovative Coca-Cola vending machine that dispenses free cans when people hug it, has become immensely popular in Singapore.

The drinks giant's famous logo has been replaced with the simple message: "Hug Me."

The odd Singapore stunt is a part of the company's 'Open Happiness' campaign, which is designed to encourage displays of affection in a country where hugs and kisses in public have long been discouraged.

"Happiness is contagious. The Coca Cola Hug Machine is a simple idea to spread some happiness," the Sun quoted Leonardo O'Grady, Coke's Asia Pacific director, as saying.

"Our strategy is to deliver doses of happiness in an unexpected, innovative way to engage not only the people present, but the audience at large," he said.

The machine has been so popular that the company now planned to roll them out across Asia.

"The reaction was amazing - at one point we had four to five people hugging the machine at the same time as well as each other! In fact, there was a long line of people looking to give hugs," O'Grady added.

Fizzy drinks 'as bad for health as tobacco'

Sugar-packed fizzy drinks are just as dangerous to health as cigarettes, health experts have warned.

Experts want hard-hitting public awareness campaigns to attack what they say are "manufacturers' misleading promotions that distract from the health risks".

"Emerging science on the addictiveness of sugar, especially combined with the known addictive properties of caffeine in many sugary beverages, should heighten awareness of the health threat similar to the understanding about the addictiveness of tobacco products," the Daily Express quoted public health expert Dr Lori Dorfman as saying.

Dorfman, from the University of California, and colleagues want soft drinks companies to stop "explicitly targeting young people" in an "aim to increase sales".

Drinking just two cans of fizzy pop a day has been shown to cause severe long-term liver damage, a condition normally the result of chronic alcohol abuse.

It can lead to victims needing a transplant because the liver cannot process the huge amount of sugar.

Too many soft drinks can potentially cause diabetes and heart damage as well as being a major contributor to obesity.

Diet drinks in particular have been shown to pile on the pounds because, even though they have fewer calories than regular fizzy pop, they can trigger the appetite to eat more.

Those who binge on diet soft drinks every day have been shown to have 70 percent bigger waists after a decade.

"There is no comparison to be drawn between tobacco and soft drinks," a spokesman for the British Soft Drinks Association said.

"Tobacco is harmful in any quantity and any reduction in consumption is a positive step for health.In the case of food and drink, it is the imbalance between calorie intake and calorie expenditure that is the cause of obesity and not the intake of calories as such, still less the intake of calories from any particular food or drink. These two situations are entirely different," the spokesman added.

Women can be more promiscuous than men!

A new study has suggested that when it comes to being sexually unfaithful while being away from home, women tend to rack up more lovers than men.

The UK Adultery Survey 2012 found that once women decide to play away, they are far more likely to play the field in search of love.

Research into the behaviour of 4,000 people suggested that women are more promiscuous, having an average of 2.3 secret lovers compared to a mere 1.8 for men, the Daily Mail reported.

While explaining their reasons to cheat, the men say the pursuit of sexual excitement, boredom with their marriages and the need of an ego boost are the main causes. Women say their reasons could be anything from looking for emotional fulfillment, an improvement to their self esteem to romance.

Women adulterers are also far more prone to falling in love with their illicit lovers than their male equivalents.

According to Emily Pope of Undercover Lovers, a dating site for married people seeking affairs with some 600,000 members, the survey's results challenged the general assumption that men are more adulterous than women.

"Once they have made the huge decision to have an affair, women have far more opportunity to actually find someone to cheat with and are generally in control of deciding if and when to consummate the relationship once they do," she said.

The survey also found that women are likely to be the first to get itchy feet in a marriage.

Why a man's touch makes women blush

The regions of the face that redden during sexual stimulation also slightly heat up during innocent social interactions, a new study has revealed.

For the study, Amanda Hahn and colleagues at St Andrew’s University in Fife, UK, used a heat-sensitive camera to map small changes of temperature in the faces of young heterosexual women while an experimenter touched them with an instrument they were told was measuring skin colour.

Touching the palm or elbow had no effect, but contact with the cheek or top of the breastbone raised the temperature around the eyes, mouth and nose by 0.2-to 0.5 degrees centigrade on average, and by a full degree in certain spots.

An earlier study had found this area heats up in sexually aroused men.

The female subjects reported few or no feelings of arousal or embarrassment, but their facial temperature rose more when the experimenter was a young man.

"What is surprising is the magnitude," New Scientists quoted Hahn as saying.

Indian boy solves 350-year old math puzzle set by Newton

A 16-year-old Indian origin schoolboy in Germany has managed to crack puzzles that baffled the world of maths for more than 350 years, it was reported here on Saturday.

Shouryya Ray, from Dresden, has been hailed a genius after working out the problems set by Sir Isaac Newton.

Ray solved two fundamental particle dynamics theories which physicists have previously been able to calculate only by using powerful computers, Daily Mail reported.

His solutions mean that scientists can now calculate the flight path of a thrown ball and then predict how it will hit and bounce off a wall.

Ray only came across the problems during a school trip to Dresden University where professors claimed they were uncrackable, the newspaper said.

"I just asked myself, 'Why not?'," explained Ray.

"I didn't believe there couldn't be a solution," he added.

Ray began solving complicated equations as a six-year-old but says he's no genius.

After arriving from Kolkata four years ago without knowing any German, Shouryya is now fluent in the language.

His intelligence was quickly noted in class and he was pushed up two years in school - he is currently sitting his exams early, the Mail said.

Desire to 'sext' naked pictures 'hard-wired' into human brains

 'Sexting' has become a favourite celebrity pastime, with everyone from Scarlett Johansson to Vanessa Hudgens having being caught in the act.

Now, however, scientists say that people may be predisposed to share naked picture of themselves with others.

Clinical psychologist Marta Meana, president of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research claims that "being desired is very arousing to women."

"An increasing body of data is indicating that the way women feel about themselves may be very important to their experience of sexual desire and subjective arousal, possibly even outweighing the impact of their partners' view of them," the Daily Mail quoted her as saying.

Recent studies have found that more than half of women's sexual fantasies reflect the desire to be sexually irresistible to men.

In one recent survey, 47 percent of women reported the fantasy of seeing themselves as a striptease dancer, harem girl, or other performer.

50 percent fantasized about delighting more than one man.

Meana of the Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, who analysed the research, admitted that more research was needed in the area, claiming scientists need to investigate eroticism.

"The little data we have indicate that eroticism just will not be told what to do," she said.

"Consequently, research and clinical forays into eroticism may go a long way toward facilitating inclusiveness and considering the diversity and full range of women's sexual desires," she said.

The research could explain the recent flood of celebrity picture leaks.

The popularity of smartphones with cameras has meant that over the past two years, more photographs of nude celebrity anatomy have been leaked to the public eye than over the previous two centuries.

The list of those who have had their raunchy snaps revealed includes Scarlett Johansson, Vanessa Hudgens, Congressman Wiener, Jessica Alba, Christina Aguilera, Miley Cyrus, Ron Artest, Charlize Theron, Chris Brown, Bret Favre, Rihanna, Pete Wentz, Ke$ha, and dozens more.

Many have even defended their actions.

"Look I'm human, and just like every girl in this world, I admire my body so i take pics," wrote singer Teyana Taylor after her graphic self-portraits were leaked.

Websites showing amateur self portraits have also become a huge success around the world, many using pictures taken from Facebook and other social networking sites.

The behaviour also appears in men, and some researchers believe they may have inherited the urges from primate ancestors. 

Male monkeys and apes routinely display their penises to females to indicate sexual interest.

Food dropped on floor safe to eat if picked up within 3 secs

Many of us might have picked up a piece of dropped food from the floor, given it a quick blow and assumed it was still safe to eat.

It is second nature to apply the age-old pseudo-scientific 'three second rule' on such occasions, telling ourselves we're safe if the food hit the floor only momentarily. 

The idea that food is not contaminated if it is retrieved quickly has been believed for many years - but there has not been extensive proof that this is the case.

Now though, the doubt is out as scientists have finally investigated the theory to discover whether the rule is fact or fiction.

Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) tested five food items to see whether the three-second rule could be trusted.

Bread with jam, cooked pasta, ham, a plain biscuit and dried fruit were all dropped on the floor and left for three, five and 10 second intervals.

These were selected as they are commonly eaten foods and all have different water activity levels; a key factor in whether items will sustain bacterial growth in the three seconds before they are picked up from the floor.

After the study, the foods were examined to ascertain whether or not harmful bacteria found on the floor was then found to be growing on the dropped food.

The study revealed that dropped foods with a high salt or sugar content were safer to eat after being retrieved, as is less chance of harmful bacteria surviving on such items.

Eating processed food from the floor poses the lowest risk - one of its few benefits - given that it generally contains such high levels of sugar and salt.

Both the ham, a salty product, and the sugary bread and jam fared well in the test. When retrieved from the floor within three seconds, the foodstuffs showed little sign of bacterial growth.

The dried fruit and cooked pasta, on the other hand, showed signs of klebsiella after three seconds - a bacteria which can potentially lead to a wide range of diseases such as pneumonia, urinary tract infections, septicaemia and soft tissue conditions.

Biscuits proved to be a food relatively safe to eat after being dropped on the floor for three seconds, five seconds or ten seconds, due to their low water content.

"No specific organisms were detected on the biscuit, which has a low water activity level and low adhesion ability," the Daily Mail quoted MMU technical officer Kathy Lees as saying.

"Ham is a processed meat preserved with salt and nitrates which prevents the growth of most bacteria.

"The cooked pasta had a slightly increased yeast count after five seconds and very low levels of Klebsiella were detected at all contact times, three, five and ten seconds," she said.

The dried fruit also displayed Klebsiella after five and ten seconds and the yeast count was too numerous to count.

"The bread and jam showed no bacterial growth after time on the floor, which can be linked to the high sugar content of the jam which makes it unlikely to support microbial growth," she added.

Is social media really damaging relationships?

Social media is becoming a source of stress and tension in relationships, according to experts. Dr Scott Bea, a clinical psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic, says that when social media and social lives intertwine, it creates jealousy.

“Imagine starting a dating relationship and you find out the guy that you’re involved with has 350 female friends,” Fox News quoted Dr Bea as saying.
“I mean, it creates a whole new kind of stress. You have all of this competition that you might not have known about before.

It might not have existed before,” he said.
A new study ranks the ways in which social media can cause stress in relationships. The most cited cause of stress was sharing too much information on your profile page. The second was tagging an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend in a photo.
Getting a friend request from an ex or finding incriminating information on partner’s walls or in their photos can also cause fights between couples. 

In the past, it was much easier to keep secrets from a significant other but now couples have to get accustomed to a little less privacy, Bea said.
“We weren’t built to think about the person we’re dating having so many other social contacts and friends that might compete with us," he said. "We like that feeling of exclusivity, that we’re the one that matters first and foremost,” he added.

Einstein may have been 'world's worst husband'

Albert Einstein may be regarded as one of the world's most important scientists but despite his innumerable professional successes, he found it hard to sustain a thriving personal life, according to a new book.n his book, Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson has described how Einstein found maintaining a harmonious love life a battle he would never win.

In fact, so pragmatic was Einstein's approach to love, that when he found his 11-year marriage to fellow scientist Mileva Maric was floundering, he issued a list of outrageous rules that he believed would allow the two to remain together for the sake of the children, the Daily Mail reported.

Shockingly the list demanded Maric continue to act as maid to her erstwhile husband - yet should expect no affection or attention in return.

Einstein was prompted to write the list when, in 1914,he realised that after 11 years, his marriage to first wife Maric - one of the first women to study mathematics and physics in Europe - was destined for failure.

The scientist ordered that she keep his rooms tidy, bring him three meals a day (to be eaten in his room), keep his clothes and laundry in good order, and keep his bedroom and study neat (she should not use his desk, of course).

There would apparently be no benefits to Maric in return. In fact, Einstein specified in his list of conditions, printed in Isaacson's book (via website listsofnote.com), that she must not expect Einstein to either sit with her, or accompany her outside of the house - and she must stop talking when he requests.

She must 'renounce all personal relations' not strictly necessary for social reasons - which should not include expecting to be accompanied on social engagements. Also, Einstein stipulated that his wife should not expect any intimacy from him, should not reproach him in any way; should stop talking to him if he requested it; should leave his bedroom or study immediately without protest if requested, and should refrain from belittling him in front of the children, either through words or behaviour.

However, just a few months after he issued his misogynistic manifesto, she left Einstein in Berlin and moved with their sons, Hans Albert and Eduard (their daughter, Lieserl, born in 1902, was given up for adoption), to Zurich. 


After five years she filed for divorce and in 1919, it was granted.

Isaacson also divulged how as a young man, Einstein predicted in a letter to the mother of his first girlfriend that the 'joys of science' would be a refuge from 'painful personal emotions'.

As a testimony to that fact, the father of the theory of relativity is known to have had many liaisons throughout his marriage to Maric. In fact, he became involved with Elsa, a first cousin who would become his second wife, in 1912, when he was still married to his first wife.

Although Einstein married Elsa in 1919, within four years he was already involved with Bette Neumann, his secretary and the niece of one of his friends.

"His conquest of general relativity proved easier than finding the formulas for the forces swirling within his family," Isaacson said.

Now, seat to wrap kids in bubble during car crash

British engineers have unveiled a car seat that cocoons a baby in a protective shell in the event of an accident.

The rear-facing Carkoon is also fireproof, providing the child with up to 20 minutes of air and insulating it from a blaze.

And for easy release in an accident - or during an everyday trip to the supermarket or nursery - the seat can be swivelled round to face the door, so the child can be easily unbuckled and lifted out.

The Carkoon could be on sale as early as next year but, at around 499 pounds, will be considerably more expensive than a standard child seat.

Its main feature is an airbag that folds out on impact, enveloping the child in the seat. The youngster is protected from head to toe but has plenty of breathing space.

Unlike traditional airbags that cushion passengers by deflating when hit, the Carkoon's airbag stays inflated and rigid enough to withstand bombardment by any objects dislodged by the crash.

Inventor Jullian Preston-Powers said this is vital, as a stray water bottle or satnav can kill in a 30mph crash. We have even bounced a brick off it," the Daily Mail quoted Preston-Powers as saying.

He came up with the idea after speaking to a Sussex fireman whose hands were badly burned when he tried to rescue a baby from a burning car.

Sadly, the fireman was unsuccessful and the baby died.

As well as the swivelling base and airbag, some Carkoon models will have a device that transmit a signal to the emergency services, letting them know there has been an accident with a baby involved.

In Britain, car seats for babies usually face backwards while those for toddlers face forwards.

With studies showing rear-facing seats provide vital added protection to the head and neck in a crash, Preston-Powers is campaigning for them to be made compulsory for all children under four.

Woman sets up goons to kill HIV positive lover

She wanted to get rid of the man diagnosed as HIV-positive as he was pestering her for sexual favours. The woman was afraid of being infected with the disease. Shunned by his wife, the man was desperate for sexual relief from his lover with whom he was in relationship for around three years. The mistress roped in three young neighbours with a promise to pay Rs 70,000 to eliminate the man for ever. 

Deepak Purke, an attendant with the Bank of Maharashtra branch in Ayodhya Nagar, was taken to a desolate place near Paunapur in the outskirts of the city on February 13 last month before being stabbed to death. The joint effort of the special squad of assistant commissioner of police RS Pawade and Kalamna police saw the case being cracked with the help of the call details records. Four people, including the mastermind Anita Chaudhari, have been arrested on Tuesday. 

Along with Anita, the police have also arrested two brothers Tejram and Mukesh Moundekar, and Kishore Katwe, all in their 20s, for the murder. The alleged assailants are residents of Lalganj. Head constable Sanjay Wankhede, Anil Karne and Sanjay Bangarkar of the special squad picked up the assailants. 

Police said that Purke, father of two, entered into a relationship with Anita, a mother of three, even while he was having an affair with another woman. Anita's husband had passed away around five years ago. Purke did not have a cordial relation with his family members and often stayed out. He also stayed with Anita on a number of occasions at her place. 

Police said that Anita was given a lot of money by Purke. She had also kept his bike. Soon, however, there was a breakdown in the relationship. Learning about Purke's relationship with Anita, his family member thrashed her. She reported the matter to the police and got Purke's parents and siblings booked for attempt to murder in 2010. 

Police said Purke's health became the prime issue of discord between Anita and him. She contacted Kishore and sought his help in eliminating Purke. Kishore roped in Tejram and Mukesh. She even brought them to Shantinagar where Purke resided so that they could identity their victim. 

It was the call details of the bank that gave police the first clue. Four suspicious mobile phone numbers cropped up before the police. Anita had initially said that she had only one SIM card. But police soon found out that she was possessing more than one. 

PI Rajesh Padvi of Kalamna police station said one SIM was used to coordinate murder plot. Anita had also given a cellphone to Mukesh to coordinate the actions. 

On the day of murder, Anita invited Purke to take his bike. Kishore took Purke as pillion and drove towards Kalamna after they met near Harihar temple. Mukesh and Tejram followed them on another bike. They convinced Purke that the bike was kept in a field near Paunapur where on reaching he was stabbed to death. 

Police said that Mukesh was traced with the help of his girlfriend with whom he had being communicating regularly and had also gone for an outing the day after the murder. Anita apparently had paid only Rs 35,000 till date. Police have recovered the bike of the victim and other evidences.  

10 Things you should never say to a woman

There are few guarantees in life, but this much we can say with certainty: The sun rises in the east, death comes to us all, and you will -- at one time or another -- suddenly find yourself in the midst of a blazing fight with your girlfriendwithout even realizing it. 

Many of us have been there. One minute you're having a conversation, maybe a minor argument, but that's OK; it's all under control. Then you say something -- a word or passing comment, something relatively harmless, or so you think -- and it sets her off. As soon as it leaves your lips, the air changes, and there's no easy way back. 

There are some things men should never say to their women -- conversational land mines that appear insignificant on the face of it, but are anything but. The good news is that we know, for the most part, what they are. Many men have suffered before you. It would be wise to heed their counsel. 

1. "Are you really going to eat all that?" 

Your girlfriend is, by definition, as light as a feather and nimble as a ballerina. To so much as whisper a hint of the notion that she might be, you know, otherwise, is to risk paying a price as heavy as you suspect her to be. In fact, avoid the topic of food altogether if you can. Eating is an emotional, often obsessive business for women, and occasionally it's an actual disorder. It's tied up with their identity, their self-image, their fantasies. So the answer is, yes, she's really going to eat all that. All that ballet must have given her an appetite. 

2. "B*tch" 

The B word is like the N word: Unless you've been appropriately oppressed, you don't get to use it. You might be able to pull off an ironic Snoop Dogg-style "beeeyatch," so long as you're smiling as you say it. But to say "b*tch" with any kind of intent is to pull the pin out of a grenade. 

3. "My ex used to ... " 

Anything you say with the words "my ex" in it will be held against you in a court of law, as it should. Of course it's natural to compare your girlfriends, but keep it to yourself. There are inside thoughts and outside thoughts. This belongs firmly to the former category. 

4. "You always do that" 

One sure way to escalate a minor tiff into a nuclear showdown is to use words like "never" and "always." They're too sweeping to be true, so you'll not only upset her, but also give her the opportunity to prove you wrong and seize the higher ground. And it tends to drag every other argument you've had into your present one, which is like rehashing all the worst parts of your relationship all at once. 

5. "You sound just like your mother" 

Don't compare her to her mother. Or her sister, for that matter. You don't know those people like she does, and you don't know the full complexity of their relationships. And anyway, everyone wants an independent identity, separate and distinct from their family members. 

6. "Yeah, she's hot" 

Chances are she lured you in with an innocent question, like, "Do you think she's cute?" shrugging her shoulders like it wouldn't matter either way. But don't be fooled. You must lie quickly and reflexively. Whether it's a girl in a magazine, a Facebook friend, a waitress -- whoever -- the answer is always no. In fact, you win extra points for casually finding fault in herthe closer you look. Watch your girlfriend light up as you say, "Is it me, or is her nose a bit weird?" 

7. "What's up with your hair?" 

Her hair looks great and it suits her perfectly. She's allowed to have a bad hair day, but you're not allowed to notice. For girls, hair isn't just hair. 

8. "Relax" 

The thing about "relax" is it dramatically reduces the chances of her relaxing. The same goes for "chill" and "calm down." Here's an alternative: "I can see how you would feel that way." It takes a Zen master to actually use it in the heat of combat, but it's there if you need it. 

9. "Is this your time of the month?" 

Even if it is, you're not to mention it. Your role is to pretend that her menstrual cycle has no effect on her tendency to shriek and stamp and then burst into tears for no reason whatsoever. In this matter, you must occupy the high ground and show pity. Indulge her delusion that she is not in fact deranged by hormones and that she's making a valid point. The moment will pass. 

10. "I love you" 

I know what you're thinking. This is supposed to be the magic pill, the cure-all, the instant fix. But the thing about the L word is that it sends women into a heightened sense of awareness. As soon as they hear it, they can tell whether or not you mean it. Misuse the force and it may destroy you. Or as the saying goes, if you play with fire, you might get slapped in the middle of a restaurant. 

Men become stupid around women

A new study has revealed that men suffer mental decline when around, or even just thinking about, women.

In the presence of a woman, men sometimes don’t know what to say. They just can’t think straight when women are around, the New York Daily News reported.

But the same didn’t hold true for women, according to the study from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, first published online last November.

Researchers compaed the findings to a scene in Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, in which a male character, Levi, becomes so nervous trying to think of something to tell a woman, Kitty, that he doesn’t recognize a friend who walks by the pond where they’re standing.

Such temporary lapses in memory or mindfulness are more common “if the woman is attractive and men report trying to impress her,” according to the study’s authors.

And they happen in real life, too.

The researchers used university students as participants for experiments.

During one, the students were asked to complete a lip reading task in which they said words out loud in front of a webcam. They were told someone would see them on the other end of the webcam, and try to read their lips.

Men who were told a woman would be watching them performed worse on subsequent tests of cognitive ability, even when there was no actual face-to-face contact with a woman. Women showed no change.

Researchers suggest the findings could be attributed to evolutionary pressures that have shaped men to be more likely to sexualize otherwise neutral situations, but say further study is necessary. 

Rahul Dravid retires: much more than a wall

"I don't believe that you judge careers, or what people have done for 15-20 years based on one or two matches at the end. It is the body of work over a lifetime that goes into making a success story."

These words, spoken by Rahul Dravid during India's crushing 4-0 Test defeat in England last year, ring true on the day Indian cricket's most successful No. 3 batsman called time on his international career. A terrible final tour of Australia – 194 runs in eight innings, seven bowled dismissals in a row and no catches for the first time in a series of three or more Tests – and India's collective poor showing cost him the chance of a fitting swansong but the memories will live long. Dravid's poor returns in his final series did nothing to take away from the greatness of the man, the batsman and the Indian, or of what he has achieved in an international career spanning nearly 17 years.

Where does one begin to pay tribute to Rahul Sharad Dravid? How do you assess his contributions to Indian cricket? He finishes as the second-highest run-scorer in Test cricket – just pause and read that again, let the words settle in your head – while being a role model for players the world over. He captained India to Test series wins in the West Indies and England to snap decades-long droughts, and played starring roles in some of Indian cricket's most famous overseas victories. Along the way, he adjusted his game to suit one-day cricket and collected over 10,000 runs. And they said he couldn't play ODI cricket.

The list goes on. Dravid was the first batsman to score a century in all Test-playing countries, the first batsman to score 10,000 runs at No. 3, the batsman to face the most deliveries in Test cricket, the longest in ODI cricket to not score a duck (120 innings), and he even batted 173 consecutive innings in international cricket (Tests and ODIs) without a duck between 2000 and 2004 – the longest sequence for any batsman. And in case there was any doubt as to what else he could do, Dravid ended up as the owner of the most catches in Test cricket.

Through it all, across the world and in varied conditions, Dravid was the consummate gentleman, the hard-working player. He rarely displayed anger, was not prone to rage or contempt, stayed clear of controversy (you can hardly call a lozenge a controversy). He batted where the team needed him to, even opening in Tests without hesitation; he didn't compromise on his fundamentals, even when crossing 10,000 ODI runs; he donned the wicketkeeper's gloves, he captained his country; he sealed chases and help set up victories; he gave his best to help India out of trouble; and even when the victim of the BCCI's whimsical hire-and-fire policy he turned up to work and didn't complain. You name it, and Dravid has done it. Such was the man's duty to his cause.

That he did all this under adversity, with team-mates getting more attention, didn't seem to bother Dravid. He was overshadowed on Test debut by Sourav Ganguly, and spent his career overshadowed by Sachin Tendulkar. What it must have been like to play under the shadow of India's greatest player – hell, he was even booed when he came out to bat because he wasn't the next player in, he wasn't Tendulkar – only Dravid can know. The closest we may ever come to know about that was in Dravid's admission, years ago, that "most people want me to get out quickly so they can watch Sachin bat."

Tendulkar was worshipped, VVS Laxman pulled off the unbelievable with silky wizardry, Virender Sehwag put bums in seats, and Ganguly had a legion of followers in Kolkata. What did Dravid get? The epithet of 'The Wall', symbolizing something solid yet distinctly drab, resistant but not repelling. It could hardly have been the sobriquet he envisioned when taking his first strides in competitive cricket as a youngster in Bangalore.

Yet like a wall, he weathered the tough times. His form started to wane from the series against South Africa in late 2006, and continued for two years. But Dravid came back from his slump, and defied his critics. He scored over 1,000 Test runs in 2011, at the age of 38. Those 1,000 runs, he admitted, were the most satisfying because people had doubted his ability to perform at that age.

And so, after 164 Tests and 13,288 runs spanning nearly 17 years, we Indians have much to thank Dravid for. For his repeated role in saving, setting up and winning matches for India, by standing up to the best in the world and in all sorts of conditions, for giving us the belief that victory and escape were possible as long as he was at the crease.

For Kolkata, Headingley, Adelaide, Rawalpindi, and Jamaica – five of India's most famous Test wins ever. In each, Dravid left his mark. Right up there with pride of place are his match-winning 233 against Australia in Adelaide; an epic 270 against Pakistan in Rawalpindi to help clinch a series win; that 180 in the company of Laxman at Eden Gardens to script Indian cricket's defining victory after the match-fixing scandal; his twin fifties on a dodgy surface in Jamaica to set up India's first win in the West Indies for 35 years.

There were also colossal innings to avert defeats in Port-of-Spain, Georgetown and Nottingham, to name three memorable instances. There were four Test centuries in consecutive innings, and four double-centuries in the span of 15 Tests. There were runs in ODI cricket, a format in which Dravid appeared a misfit earlier in his career, and loads of them. He even top-scored in a World Cup.

Today, at the age of 39, has taken the decision to retire with the precision with which he cut and drove the ball down the years. He knew the end was near, but held off until the Indian team returned from a difficult tour of Australia so as not to distract attention from his countrymen. His career is over, and now his legacy truly comes into being. You can only become a legend once you have retired, and from today we can rightfully term Dravid a legend.

Dead woman wakes up and climbs out of coffin

A Chinese woman who was thought to have passed away woke up six days after she had supposedly died.

95-year-old Li Xiufeng was found in bed motionless and not breathing by a neighbour two weeks after tripping and suffering a head injury at her home in Beiliu, Guangxi Province.

When the neighbour could not wake her up, they feared the worst and thought the elderly woman had died.

She was placed in a coffin, which was kept in her house unsealed under Chinese tradition for friends and relatives to pay respects.

But the day before the funeral, neighbours found an empty coffin, and later discovered that the woman had woken up, and was in her kitchen cooking.

"She didn't get up, so I came up to wake her up," the Daily Mail quoted the woman's neighbour Chen Qingwang, 60, as saying.

"No matter how hard I pushed her and called her name, she had no reactions.

"I felt something was wrong, so I tried her breath, and she has gone, but her body is still not cold," he said.

Since Xiufeng lived alone, Qingwang and his son made preparations for her funeral, and the "dead" woman was left in her coffin two days after she was discovered.

The day before she was due to be paid her last respects, Qingwang arrived at her house and found her "corpse" had disappeared.

"We were so terrified, and immediately asked the neighbours to come for help," Qingwang said.

Neighbours searched her property before finding the pensioner in her kitchen cooking.

"I slept for a long time. After waking up, I felt so hungry, and wanted to cook something to eat," she told villagers.

"I pushed the lid for a long time to climb out," she said.

Medics said Xiufeng had suffered an " artificial death", when a person has no breath, but their body remains warm.

"Thanks to the local tradition of parking the coffin in the house for several days, she could be saved," a doctor at the hospital said.

Sachin shouldn't wait for too long to decide his ODI career: Lawson

 Former Australian fast bowler Geoff Lawson feels Sachin Tendulkar has got the right to decide when to quit one-day cricket, but says he should not wait too long, as otherwise, the criticism will grow. 

"In Tests (in Australia), I thought he played the second best after (Virat) Kohli, who probably played the best. Looked to me he (Tendulkar) was in pretty good form in the Tests," Lawson said. 

"But I wonder whether he is playing the one-dayers for the right reason? Was his heart and mind in it? Is he playing for the 100th hundred or for India? That's what he will have to ask himself," he added. 

"He is one of the greatest players of all-time and he has gained the respect that he can take his own decision, but if he waits too long someone (like Kapil Dev) would not like it," said Lawson, when asked for his reaction to the former India captain's view that Tendulkar should have quit one-day cricket after India's triumph in the World Cup last year. 

The 54-year-old New South Welshman was talking to the reporters on the sidelines of the release of Indian-origin Lisa Sthalekar's autobiography, Shaker, here last night. 

The veteran of 180 Test wickets, conceded he was surprised by the dismal Indian show in the Test series Down Under. 

"Yes, I was surprised. First Test was very close, India were a bit unlucky. Umesh Yadav bowled well. Ishant was a bit unlucky. After that the bowling fell away. I thought the bowling was getting better but Zaheer got injured again." 

The former Pakistan national coach felt that Sharma was bowling a little bit on the shorter side. 

"Ishant was bowling the wrong length, an Indian length on Australian wickets. All the Australian bowlers were getting wickets when they pitched (the ball) up. He was bowling with lot of heart, he was making the effort, but to me the length was a bit wrong in the Tests," Lawson pointed out. 

He was full of praise for Kohli's display and his on-field attitude Down Under, but could not say much about his leadership skills. 

"I like him as a batsman. He has got talent, got quick hands, good feet (movement). He stood up to the Australians and did well on those bouncy pitches. He played well on front foot and back foot. I don't know much about him as a leader. (It's) very hard for me to comment (on his elevation as vice captain). I like his attitude. He does not back down," Lawson said. 

Kohli has been elevated as the vice-captain of the Indian cricket team by the selectors for the upcoming Asia Cup in Bangladesh. 

Lawson was, however, critical of the Indian batsmen's view that slow and low pitches should be prepared for the return series in October-November at home. 

"They (Australian bowlers) have to adjust the length a little bit. It will be nice to get Indian pitches with a little bit of bounce. It was pretty disappointing to read that Indian batsmen want slow turning pitches (during home series against Australia). 

"I always thought you have to improve your game and not try and give everyone back. Try and make some pitches with some bounce. They are doing the basics well and bowling the right line and length," the former speedster said.