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David Hubel
Yesterday in the NYT, “David Hubel, Nobel-Winning Scientist, Dies at 87″ by Denise Gellene: Dr. David Hubel, who was half of an enduring scientific team that won a Nobel Prize for explaining how the...
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Animal -zilla
A story that combines libfixes, extraordinary animals, and science reporting. From Stan Carey yesterday, a pointer to this BBC News science story, “ ’Platypus-zilla’ fossil unearthed in Australia” by...
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The news for penises: thinner, stronger, and more pleasurable
No, not the penis, the condom for the penis. News from the Brisbane (AU) Times, in yesterday’s story “‘Like you’re touching someone covered in a lubricant’: next generation condoms”, about hydrogel...
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Glycoscience in the Royal Society of London
… and, oh yes, women. In the Stanford Report (the daily faculty-staff news release) yesterday, a bulletin (by Kate Lewis) from the School of Humanities and Sciences, “Carolyn Bertozzi elected to Royal...
View ArticleScience Talent Search
In yesterday’s NYT Science News, a nice story (“A Laboratory Grows Young Scientists” by Ethan Hauser) about the Intel Science Talent Search, the winners of which were announced last night. About the...
View ArticleThe masochism spectrum
The current Details magazine (April 2013) has a section on “The Body: The DETAILS Sex Report”, giving some results from the magazine’s 2013 sex survey. Things like men’s preferred (non-vaginal) targets...
View ArticleStraight vs. gay orgasms
(More sex.) One last bit from the Details (April 2013) sex survey: “Orgasms by the Numbers — Straight vs. Gay”. Here the issues are how the respondents understood the questions and how to interpret the...
View ArticleEarworm therapy
From the Telegraph on 3/24/13, a story by science correspondent Richard Gray headed: Get that tune out of your head – scientists find how to get rid of earworms Scientists claim to have found a way to...
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Glass eels
In the NYT Sunday Review of 3/31/13, a piece by Akiko Busch (author of The Incidental Steward: Reflections on Citizen Science) on “Why I Count Glass Eels”, about half-hour increments spent on spring...
View ArticleQuestionnaires again
Back a while, I tried to make sense of the last sex survey by Details magazine; a lot depended on how the questions were worded and how the respondents understood those questions. Now another case,...
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