McFatty | August 27, 2010
In coming years, researchers may also be able to shed light on the impact of language on more subtle areas of perception. For instance, some languages, like Matses in Peru, oblige their speakers, like the finickiest of lawyers, to specify exactly how they came to know about the facts they are reporting. You cannot simply [...]
McFatty | April 16, 2010
A WOMAN has gone from Nintendo to nympho after a fall from her Wii Fit board turned her into a sex addict. Randy Amanda Flowers needs 10 sex sessions a day after the slip-up. via Daily Star: Simply The Best 7 Days A Week :: News :: Nintendo Wii made me nympho!.
McFatty | February 25, 2010
Liberals and Atheists Smarter? Intelligent People Have Values Novel in Human Evolutionary History, Study Finds ScienceDaily (Feb. 24, 2010) — More intelligent people are statistically significantly more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history. Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and for men (but [...]
McFatty | February 25, 2010
Move over High Karate…23% of men ranked bacon as their number one favorite fragrance Four out of five respondents (82%) who said they love bacon also said they are good lovers Nearly one in four of respondents (23%) wondered if ‘my partner loves bacon more than me’ via People in Canada Choose Bacon Over Sex [...]
McFatty | February 2, 2010
NCBI ROFL: That’s one miraculous conception. | Discoblog | Discover Magazine Oral conception. Impregnation via the proximal gastrointestinal tract in a patient with an aplastic distal vagina. Case report.
McFatty | January 19, 2009
Wealthy men give women more orgasms Jonathan Leake, Science and Environment Editor Scientists have found that the pleasure women get from making love is directly linked to the size of their partner’s bank balance. via Wealthy men give women more orgasms – Times Online. Women. I tell ya.
McFatty | December 20, 2008
Dec. 15, 2008 — Past studies have linked an individual’s intelligence to his or her height, cardiovascular function and longevity, but now a new study suggests semen quality may be added to that list, since it also appears to help predict the level of a man’s intelligence. via Semen Quality Linked to Intelligence : Discovery [...]
McFatty | December 14, 2008
The higher your IQ coefficient is, the more drinks you take daily. These are the results of a research made by the Medical Research Council and published in the “American Journal of Public Health,” which points that women are particularly prone to drink heavily in their thirties, if they have an over-the-average intelligence. via Intelligent [...]
McFatty | December 14, 2008
By using cryptography, Mr. Farmer may not have only unmasked the Zodiac killer, Gareth Penn, but he also suggests that there could be more victims left unaccounted for. In a world where serial murder has turned into a profitable business, it is only fitting that Mr. Farmer, a man who charges no fees for his [...]
McFatty | March 18, 2008
TED | Talks | Craig Venter: On the verge of creating synthetic life (video) “Can we create new life out of our digital universe?” asks Craig Venter. And his answer is, yes, and pretty soon. He walks the TED2008 audience through his latest research into “fourth-generation fuels” — biologically created fuels with CO2 as their [...]
McFatty | March 17, 2008
Why men prefer fair-skinned maidens and women like dark, handsome strangers | the Mail on Sunday Gentlemen do not just prefer blondes, but lighter-skinned women in general, a study has suggested. Scientists looking into attractiveness in men and woman suggest that men from all races find fairer-skinned woman most alluring, while women are the polar [...]
McFatty | February 12, 2008
Edge: Cover Story – Publico Sunday Magazine When the world’s great scientific thinkers change their minds My two favourites: Helena Cronin, philosopher, London School of Economics I used to think that these patterns of sex differences resulted mainly from average differences between men and women in innate talents, tastes and temperaments. After all, in talents men are [...]
McFatty | December 21, 2007
Medical myths — Vreeman and Carroll 335 (7633): 1288 — BMJ “Physicians understand that practicing good medicine requires the constant acquisition of new knowledge, though they often assume their existing medical beliefs do not need re-examination. These medical myths are a light hearted reminder that we can be wrong and need to question what other [...]
McFatty | December 18, 2007
Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms – washingtonpost.com It has been 50 years since scientists first created DNA in a test tube, stitching ordinary chemical ingredients together to make life’s most extraordinary molecule. Until recently, however, even the most sophisticated laboratories could make only small snippets of DNA — an extra [...]
