“Why do any of us have orgasms, really?”

“The issue is usually presented like so: Male orgasms are “straightforward” and serve an obvious purpose. But female orgasms — what’s the deal with those? If they aren’t reliably sparked by a penis pumping away in the baby chute, why do they happen at all?……

“Evidence for Absolute Moral Opposition to Genetically Modified Food in the United States”

“the scientific consensus is that genetically modified crops are no more dangerous than conventionally bred alternatives. For example, the American Association for the…

“The ‘gay cure’ experiments that were written out of scientific history”

“Imagine a line that goes through one ear and out the other. Now take another line that runs dead centre from the top of your skull and down through your tongue. Where the two meet is what Heath labelled…

“Facebook Could Be Associated With a Longer Life, Study Finds”

“The paper, published in the journal PNAS on Monday, asserts that the health effects of active online social lives largely mirror the benefits of busy offline social lives.

“We find that people…

“Nettie Stevens discovered XY sex chromosomes. She didn’t get credit because she had two X’s.”

“Stevens was born in Vermont in 1861 and got her start in science at the relatively late age of 35, when she had saved up enough to enroll in a small startup university…

“ON READING ISSUES OF WIRED FROM 1993 TO 1995”

“Founded in 1993 by Jane Metcalfe, Louis Rossetto, and Kevin Kelly, Wired emerged when San Francisco’s tech scene was still shadowy and creative, populated by phreakers and neo-hippies, artists and anarchists, ravers and cypherpunks. The founders…

“When are people gonna realize their studies are dead on arrival?”

“my message is that this noisy, N = 41, between-person study never had a chance. The researchers presumably thought they were doing solid science, but actually they’re trying to use a bathroom scale to weigh a…

“Sensory neurons detect fullness and nutrients in the GI tract in surprising ways”

“To trigger that feeling of fullness, does just one wire need to be activated, or are there several that need to be activated? How is this sensory system organized to distinguish proteins…

“Psychologists Throw Open The “File Drawer””

“a group of Belgian psychology researchers have decided to make a stand. In a bold move against publication bias, they’ve thrown open their own file drawer. In the new paper, Anthony Lane and colleagues from the Université catholique de Louvain say…