Strange Ways Men and Women Differ & Why We Label Some Animals Pests - SYSK Choice
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How can you create secure but memorable passwords without a manager?
Today on Something You Should Know, how to come up with a secure password that you will remember. Then, fascinating differences between men and women, like how we hear differently, why women live longer, and why we men are hairier.
Technically, you're not hairier in terms of follicles per centimeter. It's actually what type of hair those follicles are building. But technically, the hairiest people are blondes. Actually, blondes are producing the most follicles. Anyhoo, fun fact, take that to your dinner party.
Also, why you should probably adjust the headrests in your car. And pests. They're everywhere. But what makes a pest a pest?
So it's not universal for specific pests. Not everyone views rats as being uniformly disgusting. Not everyone views snakes with fear. So really, the concept of a pest and of something that's always going to bother us depends on whether or not we're going to let ourselves be bothered.
All this today on Something You Should Know.
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Something you should know. Fascinating intel. The world's top experts. And practical advice you can use in your life. Today, Something You Should Know with Mike Carruthers.
Well, hello. You've come to the right place if you're hoping to hear another all-new episode of Something You Should Know. We start today with the subject of passwords. I don't know anybody that likes passwords. They are the definition of a necessary evil. You have to have them, but nobody likes dealing with them. And the fact that nobody likes dealing with them is probably why some of the most common passwords are things like 123456, ABC123, or the word password. They're still on the list of most commonly used and easy to crack passwords. Another one that I didn't realize, people sometimes use these three words, let me in, as their password. They make it one word, let me in, and that too is on the list of commonly used and easy to hack passwords.
And adding your name or your birth year to any of those really lame passwords doesn't help because hackers know how to get past those too. The best and most secure passwords are still a pain in the neck. They're random, scrambled characters that are super hard to crack, but also impossible to remember. So your best bet to secure a password that you will remember is to combine two parts of unrelated words. For example, January and elephant could be Janufant. You throw in a couple of uppercase letters and a few numbers, and you're pretty good to go. Another trick is to combine foreign and English words to create a unique word that's at least eight characters in length and that you won't forget. And that is something you should know.
As you know, men and women are different. They are different in some obvious ways and also in some not-so-obvious ways and some very interesting ways. Here to explain some of those differences is Kat Bohannon. Kat is a researcher and author with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and she's author of a book called Eve, How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution. Hi, Kat.
Hi, thanks for having me.
So since we have to start somewhere, pick what you think is one of the most interesting differences between men and women, and let's start there.
Maybe the first and most important thing, given that we all have bodies which are, you know, mortal, is that there is this really known longevity boost if you are a biologically female person. And that's true across mammals. Like if you're female, you live longer. We used to think it was about behavior, you know, kind of like dumb boys doing dumb boy stuff, whether it's a tiger or a human being, right? And that's that risky behavior, in other words.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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How can you create secure but memorable passwords without a manager?
0:01–10:12
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Why are common passwords like 123456 still so vulnerable?
10:12–21:31
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What biological reasons may explain why women generally live longer than men?
21:31–45:31
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How does menopause and hormone therapy affect women's risk of dementia and frailty?
45:31–47:38
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