The price disparity between men’s and women’s razors in supermarkets is an example of the pink tax at work. The pink tax is not a real tax, but is gender-based pricing discrimination; it’s the phenomenon where products marketed towards women are more expensive than identical products marketed towards men. It’s most often seen in the personal hygiene aisle, where female-targeted products can be as much as 13% more expensive than their male-targeted counterparts. Read full article here
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
