Gender and Sexual Orientation:
This finger needs a ring! (soure) ... then it's OK if the 'woman' is a guy in drag, right? The couple walked into a Norfolk courthouse on a spring day, exchanged a few words, and within 10 minutes, were seemingly husband and wife. It...
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Posted on June 23, 2008 8:37 PM • 12 Comments •
Check it out: Emma McGrattan, the senior vice-president of engineering for computer-database company Ingres-and one of Silicon Valley's highest-ranking female programmers-insists that men and women write code differently. Women are more touchy-feely and considerate of those who will use the code later, she says. They'll...
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Posted on June 17, 2008 5:10 PM • 11 Comments •
MIT researchers found that phalaropes depend on a surface interaction known as contact angle hysteresis to propel drops of water containing prey upward to their throats. Photo by Robert Lewis The Phalarope starts out as an interesting bird because of its "reversed" sex-role mating...
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Posted on May 17, 2008 8:34 AM • 0 Comments •
Significant cultural and physical differences ... the stuff of race and ethnicity ... are prominent when people move across continents or between them. Eventually, the ponderous events of history, which involve occasional foldings in the continuum of human variation, causing apparent patchiness, are offset by...
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Posted on March 24, 2008 4:03 PM • 0 Comments •
Posted on March 23, 2008 8:06 PM • 4 Comments •
A new study out of Cornell measures gender balance, or lack thereof, across the 100 largest publicly held companies in New York State. The findings indicate that while about half the workers in these companies are women, less than 15 percent of the board and...
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Posted on March 21, 2008 8:29 AM • 2 Comments •
Coturnix, of A Blog Around The Clock, was puzzled to find that one of his blog posts ... How to use a Squat Toilet ... was receiving a record amount of attention from the internet, after languishing for nearly a year on his blog. His...
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Posted on March 19, 2008 6:51 PM • 16 Comments •
... according to mainstream Christian leaders. This is about Larry King, who was fatally shot in the head on February 12 in a classroom. Larry was murdered by his classmate, Brandon McInerney. It appears that Brandon shot Larry because Larry was openly gay and a...
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Posted on March 2, 2008 12:22 PM • 23 Comments •
Rick Perry, Eagle Scout, has written a book about the boy scouts, defending their homophobic and anti humanist activism. An Eagle Scout and the father of an Eagle Scout, Perry stresses the importance of Scout values such as being "courteous and kind." (He is fond...
Posted on February 26, 2008 2:50 PM • 6 Comments •
Can you believe this guy? Check it out: The French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss once proposed that humanity began with cooking. [a Twin Cities anthropologist] says love may have begun with cooking, as well. ... The earliest human ancestors, some kind of chimp-like apes, were living...
Posted on February 13, 2008 3:43 PM • 5 Comments •
