Apparently more men are shaving their armpits. Apparently this is a “thing”. If it is a “thing”, I really hope it wasn’t brought into fashion by these guys: (You SHOW those shaved pits there, honey) Anyway, the question becomes…why shave your pits. It might interest you to know that humans have a relatively high amount […]
Sci is off on vacation for a few days this time of year (to my credit, I really think I earned it). Unfortunately, on the VERY FIRST DAY, I went and took a massive fall (which is what happens when you go running with an inexperienced Golden Retriever, who is very sweet, and was VERY […]
Sci saw the PR announcement for this paper, and I TOTALLY wanted to cover it. Unfortunately, I was prevented by severe Katsaridaphobia. Luckily, I contacted the Fantastic Bug_Girl, who was VERY pleased to take this on for me! Many kudos to Bug_Girl, esp since I only had to start freaking out when I uploaded the […]
I saw this last week, and while the world may have moved on, I CANNOT let the ostrich penis rest. So now it is time to talk about the ostrich, and about the head of the ostrich that never gets buried in the sand, if you know what I mean. I mean, the debate was […]
Society for Neuroscience meeting. Kayt and I hung out and I think she’s fantastic fun. Also, she gave me a tshirt.) My ears perked up when I first heard that there was a book coming out called “Dirty Minds”. I mean, it’s about neurobiology. And it’s about SEX. And the author had an ORGASM in […]
It started as a low rumble in my inbox on Monday. The venerable Ivan Oransky sent me a link to a new study “Laptops said to nuke sperm”. A small rumble on Monday, but that rumble was from Reuters, and pretty soon it was EVERYWHERE. The BBC, even YAHOO had something. The WI FI is […]
I was going to start with a brief Storify on this, but Storify is not being kind today. 🙁 Instead we start with one prophetic tweet: So a) is this true? Can people on clomipramine REALLY experience orgasms while yawning? And b) how the HECK does that work? I did a little digging, and I’ve […]
The science of sumo wrestlers. What could be better? Now, you might look at these guys, and the LAST thing on your mind is their hands. Mostly you think they could probably crush you just by looking at you funny. And perhaps, if their HANDS are right, they could. Tamiya et al. “Second to fourth […]
Yup. Really piercing. I got today’s Friday Weird Science via Ivan Oransky. I don’t know WHERE he finds this stuff, but find it he does! When we think of Paleolithic humans, we often think of things like cave drawings, spearheads and artifacts. We think of stone tools and people hunting mammoths with spears. But it […]
All animals used in the present study were already found dead (road-killed), and therefore an ethic approval is not required. You know, sometimes I see a study (this one was tweeted around a few weeks ago), and you just sit and wonder WHY. Why did scientists DO this study, why was it necessary? What is […]