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Today we discuss how recycling used personal protective equipment can make stronger concrete, a rise in ADHD symptoms among male weightlifters who take steroids, and the battle of the sexes among male and female butterflies!

PPE Concrete

• \u201cPPE can be recycled to make stronger concrete\u201d by Gosia Kaszubska and Will Wright
  • https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2022/august/ppe-concrete
• \u201cRecycled PPE could strengthen concrete\u201d by The Engineer
  • https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/recycled-ppe-could-strengthen-concrete

Steroid Use and ADHD\xa0

• \u201cADHD symptoms and use of anabolic androgenic steroids among male weightlifters\u201d by Emilie Kildal, Bj\xf8rnar Hassel & Astrid Bj\xf8rnebekk
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12977-w#:~:text=AAS%20use%20among%20weightlifters%20is,drug%20prevention%20strategies%20in%20sports.
• \u201cADHD symptoms are more prevalent in male weightlifters who use steroids, study finds\u201d by Patricia Y. Sanchez
  • https://www.psypost.org/2022/08/adhd-symptoms-are-more-prevalent-in-male-weightlifters-who-use-steroids-study-finds-63795

Butterfly Chastity

• \u201cIn butterfly battle of sexes, males deploy \u2018chastity belts\u2019 but females fight back\u201d by Halle Marchese and Natalie van Hoose
  • https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/male-butterflies-deploy-chastity-belts/
• \u201cIs Sexual Conflict a Driver of Speciation? A Case Study With a Tribe of Brush-footed Butterflies\u201d by Ana Paula S Carvalho, Ryan A St Laurent, Emmanuel F A Toussaint, Caroline Storer, Kelly M Dexter, Kwaku Aduse-Poku, and Akito Y Kawahara
  • https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/70/3/413/5901062?login=false
• \u201cRuff Sex: A Chastity Belt for Dogs\u201d by Buck Wolf
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20110410200915/http://www.aolnews.com/2010/02/08/ruff-sex-a-chastity-belt-for-dogs/

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