Women are less likely to receive bystander CPR than men due to fears of ‘inappropriate touching’ (ABC News)
BY Paige Cockburn
“My life is worth more than flashing my boobs to the world,” she said.
“If you’re worried that by performing CPR on somebody you’re going to touch their breasts — which we all know are just subcutaneous fat — just put that out of your mind, just think about that person, their life and their family.”
Professor Kovacic said gender makes no difference to how someone administers CPR.
“The guidelines and steps are exactly the same.”
Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match (NYT)
BY KENNY TORELLA
Porcha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. She is the first woman known to be wrongfully accused as a result of facial recognition technology.
Gary Wells, a psychology professor who has studied the reliability of eyewitness identifications, said pairing facial recognition technology with an eyewitness identification should not be the basis for charging someone with a crime. Even if that similar-looking person is innocent, an eyewitness who is asked to make the same comparison is likely to repeat the mistake made by the computer.
“It is circular and dangerous,” Dr. Wells said. “You’ve got a very powerful tool that, if it searches enough faces, will always yield people who look like the person on the surveillance image.”
Gossip is good. Tattling is bad. (Vox)
BY Alex Abad-Santos
Can all the TikTok tattletales please calm down?
“When I gossip or talk about someone I know with you, what I’m attempting to do is bond with you. I’m attempting to feel important to you because I’m bringing something to you,” Alexandra Solomon, a lecturer and clinical psychologist who studies relationships at the Family Institute at Northwestern University, told me. “I’m attempting to share an experience with you where I think we’re both going to feel similarly. So the gossip is about this third person, but actually, what I’m attempting to do is connect with you, the listener.”
Zoos aren’t for animals. They’re for us. (Vox)
BY KENNY TORRELLA
Zoos say they’re leaders in protecting wildlife. But is it true?
While the educational value of zoos is dubious, there’s certainly one message zoo-goers receive, if only implicitly: That it’s perfectly fine, even good, to put wild animals on display in tiny enclosures for the public’s leisure. In other words, animals — even if they’re suffering right in front of us — can be objects of entertainment.
“It’s rooted in this notion that yes, we have this privileged right to observe these animals at any cost to [them] or to their species more generally, and it’s deeply troubling,” Winders said.
The idea that we must exploit some animals in order to protect others creates a bizarre false choice, even when there are much more humane paths taken by others in the wildlife protection movement, like animal sanctuaries.
Canadian police won’t investigate doctor for sterilizing Indigenous woman (ABC News)
BY MARIA CHENG
Police in Canada say they will not pursue a criminal investigation into a recent case in which a doctor sterilized an Inuit woman without her consent.
In July, The Associated Press reported on the case of an Inuit woman in Yellowknife who had surgery in 2019 aimed at relieving her abdominal pain. The obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Andrew Kotaska, did not have the woman’s consent to sterilize her, and he did so over the objections of other medical personnel in the operating room. She is now suing him.
TikTok Star Sentenced to Prison After Eating Pork on Camera (NYT)
BY Mike Ives and Muktita Suhartono
Lina Lutfiawati, an influencer from Indonesia, received a two-year sentence after a video of her eating pork rinds angered the nation’s top Muslim clerics.
“This is not retaliatory,” Mr. Sapriadi [the lawyer for the cleric who reported her to the police] said after the verdict. “This is simply a lesson to a citizen to protect this country, to not provoke a hubbub and to respect each of its religious communities.”
Ms. Lina told reporters after the trial that she had apologized many times for her behavior. “I know what I did was wrong, but I did not expect this punishment to be two years,” she said.
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