Slate’s daily press round-up notes:

The Los Angeles Times notices a new study that found that people with severe back pain felt three-times worse when their spouses were in the room and tried to soothe them. It’s not that the sufferers hated their loved ones, it’s that—as many people who seen a small child trip have suspected—humans feel more pain when others take notice. Or, as one researcher put it, “The solicitous spouse has become a cue for a more intense pain experience.”

No. The solicitous spouse has become a cue for a more intense sympathy experience.

I mean, what else is the point of pain?

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