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Souvenir shops in South Africa are full of lamps made out of ostrich eggs. The eggs are so big and strong that you can carve and cut intricate designs into their shells. The egg's contents are emptied through a hole and a bulb can be inserted instead, casting pretty shadows on walls and ceilings.…
It reached 56F yesterday. In January. In Boston. Let's celebrate with some links. Science: A stunning year in climate science reveals that human civilization is on the precipice. The first anniversary of 'Climategate', Part 1: The media blows the story of the century U.S. Science-Funding Boost…
If there's one thing that burns me about so-called "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM) clinical trials, it's how unethical many of them are. This is particularly true for trials that test modalities that, on the basic science grounds alone, can be dismissed as so highly implausible and…
It's Thursday. And that means links. Or something. Science: China Second to US in research, set to pass in 2020 Research Project Grant Support For "Younger Researchers" On the latest NIH soft-money kerfuffle Collins warns Universities to roll back soft money jobs...sortof Shrimp's Dirty Secrets…

Obvious problem with the "surprise fetus" survey: It was restricted to people who answered Yes to "âvery important or somewhat important for them to avoid pregnancy right now.â

That means different things to men and women. If you are a man and you feel that way and your partner gets pregnant, that is too bad. If you are a woman and you feel that way and *you* get pregnant, you actually have to carry the damn thing! *You* might get morning sickness, *you* get to look like a whale, *you* get backache, etc., etc. The importance of avoiding pregnancy means different things to men and women. No wonder you get gender differences, and differences of the sort that show up.