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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.
DISCLAIMERS: 1) Jake Young is not a licensed physician (yet). He is merely a medical student. The information published on this site is not intended for use in medical decision-making. Please seek advice from a licensed, medical professional before making any health decisions. 2) The opinions expressed are my own. They do not represent the views of SEED magazine or the educational establishments I currently attend or attended in the past.
Category: Sex
What you think about during sex matters. A guy who doesn't want to, ahem, proceed too quickly will think of baseball or something non-sex related. A girl who wants to proceed more quickly might focus on surrounding milieu of a...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:43 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Sex
I was struck by this post over at the Well blog. In spite of media attention, teens are not engaging in more sex: The news is troubling, but it's also misleading. While some young people are clearly engaging in risky...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:33 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Public Health
Really? This is just a little creepy. A non-for-profit will help you tell your one-night-stand that you may have exposed him or her with an STI via an e-card: Steve, a health care worker in his 30s, had been told...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:37 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Sex
Ha! I knew it. The quiet animals get more play than the loud obnoxious ones: During bison mating season, the quietest bulls score the most mates and sire the most offspring while studs with the loudest bellows see the least...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:41 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Reproduction, Birth Control, and Abortion Politics
Yet another piece of evidence for the futility of abstinence education. Masters et al., publishing in the journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, show that an adolescent's attitude about sex is a much stronger indicator that they will actually...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:28 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Sex
OK, so that title is a bit glib, but that is definitely how the press is going to spin this story about birds who have stable female-female mating pairs: Almost a third of Laysan albatross nests in the Oahu colony...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:03 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Sex
Farris et al. have a paper coming out in Psychological Science about how men tend to misperceive sexual interest in women. I get the sense that this is a big problem for many women. Any woman who has spent more...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:53 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: Sex
Evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson imagines that they may have. As she writes, there are scant signals cluing us in to the sexual life of the male T. Rex. Did he have a penis? Or perhaps just a cloaca, which avians,...
Posted by Kate at 9:31 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Sex
A post on kissing by fellow SciBling Sheril caught my eye, and I figured, why not pick a friendly argument as my inaugural post at Pure Pedantry (sorry, Jake). She pointed out a recent SciAm writeup summarizing work by a...
Posted by Kate at 4:45 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Sex
This question came down the pipeline from the SEED overlords: Why don't they make a birth control pill for men? The short answer is that they do make various methods of contraception for men, but most of the more effective...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:00 AM • 3 Comments •
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