But lest we become entirely cynical, it is worth noting that our industry (and the world at large) also hasmanyexamples of leaders whose high rank and access to female company has not led them to step over the line: I give you Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Apple founder Steve Jobs, both devoted family men.
Mr Pais has collected astonishingly manyexamples of physicists who hesitated to publish a great discovery for fear of ridicule, only to see a Nobel prize stolen from under their noses.
Among the manyexamples of what shear touch could do, the research duo has raised the possibility of skipping through music by pushing left and right, or scrolling more slowly through your favorite website with a forceful dragging motion.