Sex differences:
In case you were curious. (Ccf Razib. who is nearly 100% dude.)...
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Posted on August 8, 2008 12:59 PM • 7 Comments •
The phrase "genomic imprinting" has come to refer the turning off of a gene (a particular instance of a gene on a particular chromosome duplicated across the cells in a body) so that the gene is not expressed at all, with the turning off of...
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Posted on July 23, 2008 3:30 PM • 1 Comments •
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 •
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 •
In the 1970s and 80s, a number of law suits and other actions began to change the rules for hiring firefighters. There was a moment in the 1980s when a documentary was made (starring the very annoying John Stossel) pieces of which I still use...
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Posted on May 12, 2008 10:08 PM • 32 Comments •
A little how-to action for Valentine's Day...
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Posted on February 14, 2008 12:00 PM • 1 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 •
One of the most compelling argument that the story of Noah's Ark is made up is the implausibility of having animals like tigers and lions together with animals like lambs and deer on the same boat for very long. The big carnivores would eventually eat...
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Posted on February 12, 2008 6:05 PM • 5 Comments •
Why is there no Birth Control Pill for men? This latest "Ask a ScienceBlogger" question will certainly engender a wide range of responses from the Scienceblogs.com team. Answers may address physiology, endocrinology, pharmacology, economics, and other areas of scientific thinking and practice. The answer...
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Posted on January 10, 2008 10:00 AM • 8 Comments •
Go to any bar and you'll see a lot of males standing and sitting around not mating. I'll bet you would have guessed that the reason they are not mating is that no females will mate with them for one reason or another. But there...
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Posted on December 4, 2007 7:31 PM • 2 Comments •