Early spring is a good time of year. Sci starts feeling a little more motivated, it’s finally warm enough to feel comfortable running outside again (not that Sci ran inside, she was just very uncomfortable outside), and it’s asparagus season! When Sci was wee and her mother would try to feed her asparagus, Sci turned […]
Well well well. Here we are. It’s Friday. And we’ve been talking about SPERM ALL WEEK. What to do…what to do… Nel-Themaat et al. “Quality and freezing qualities of first and second ejaculates collected from endangered Gulf Coast Native rams” Animal Reproduction Science, 2006. Heh. So it turns out that the people who wrote the […]
Sci came across this abstract via NCBI ROFL, the aggregation site with some truly hilarious studies on it, many of them worthy Friday Weird Science materials. And of course this one is EXTRA worthy. It’s from the Journal of Medical Hypotheses. Wither Weird Science, Medical Hypotheses, but for thee? So, coming up into this next […]
Many of you may have heard from your doctor that doing Kegels is a good thing. It’s certainly good for keeping your pelvic floor strong, to prevent problems like uterine prolapse following birth. It’s also very good for keeping your bladder good and functional later in life. So do your Kegels, ladies. However, Sci has […]
We hereby take a break from the female reproductive cycle to ask: How’s your sex life? How do you FEEL about your sex life? More importantly, how does your SEX THERAPIST feel about your sex life? Corty EW, Guardiani JM. “Canadian and American sex therapists’ perceptions of normal and abnormal ejaculatory latencies: how long should […]
…can Sci use “butt” in her post title? I guess we’re going to find out! Courtesy of NCBI ROFL, who gave me the idea to Pubmed this thing. Ozkaya, E. “An unusual case of mercurial baboon syndrome: lasting seasonal attacks in a retired metalworker”. Contact Dermatitis, 2008. So what, you may ask, is baboon syndrome? […]
As I’m sure most of you are aware, the human species isn’t really in immediate danger from dying out due to lack of mating partners (other reasons, I leave up to you). And after all, if all else fails, a trip to a sperm bank can often be arranged. But what about those rare animals […]
So after that whole myth about sex in space got thrown around and it turned out to be bunk (well, ok, I’m calling it bunk until I see the report my ownself, and I was SO happy to be able to say “sex…in…spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace…”. Blah), I figure I owe you guys some REAL Friday Weird Science. […]
Happy Thursday Weird Science. 🙂 Apparently NASA astronauts have undergone secret testing (very secret, I can’t get the report, too bad, too) for the examination of sex in space! This could be important for the survival of people in 0G for long periods of time, gotta propagate the species somehow. And Sci thinks it’s long […]
Sci is going to so some selfish Friday Weird Science today. Selfish, because this article isn’t new, and was reported on by one of the GREATS. This guy. He (of course) did a completely brilliant job, and when he talked about it at SciOnline this past weekend, Sci was compelled to go and see the […]