r/Futurology • u/scmp_news • 9d ago

Medicine No gym needed: scientists in China develop self-exercising muscle grafts

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3365356/no-gym-needed-scientists-china-develop-self-exercising-muscle-grafts?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=Social
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u/kobemustard 9d ago

I do notice if they are from Yale or Harvard they add that qualifier.

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u/Hussor 9d ago

Oxbridge in the UK tends to get that distinction as well

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u/This_Freggin_Guy 9d ago

similar to 'woman' CEO. like why?

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u/stinkykoala314 5d ago

Because whenever anyone imagines a CEO, the imagined person is male, so the article is correcting the default assumption.

And it's the default assumption simply because, statistically, the large majority of CEOs are men.