Another Use For Breasts in Humans

Being a post-pubescent male, I have an appreciation–an affinity even–for female breasts.  Perfectly natural and normal for me to feel this way.  Breasts in humans have the function of providing nourishment to young, as is the case in all mammals.  But unlike other mammals, human female breasts stay engorged full-time after puberty.  Other mammals’ breasts [...]

Sex(ism) in Science

‘Round the blogosphere the past few days there has been an interesting dialogue about sex in science and more to the point, sexism in society. Seems a guy named Luke who runs an atheism blog, put together a list of “sexy scientists.”  I first heard about it when well-known, respected–and yes, beautiful–scientist Sheril Kirshenbaum tweeted, [...]

The Roundup

I got a lot of great links quickly after the last The Roundup post, but I wanted to get that post on plant and prokaryote cells out first.  So now that it’s out of the way, here’s what I found for you: How do you feel about jumping out of an airplane without a parachute? [...]