Random links
- Biologists Reveal Potential 'Fatal Flaw' in Iconic Sexual Selection Study
- "A classic study from more than 60 years ago suggesting that males are more promiscuous and females more choosy in selecting mates may, in fact, be wrong" - basically an argument that male and female fruit flies are equally promiscuous. The scientist's view on why people didn't address the problems in the study before: "Our worldviews constrain our imaginations. For some people, Bateman's result was so comforting that it wasn't worth challenging. I think people just accepted it."
- Boy, 4, bids on $29,990 train
- How would Darren's parents have survived if he had internet access at age 4?
- Germany the Euro Winner? Hardly
- This'll give you the flavour of the piece: "But has the euro benefited Germany more than other countries? ... if the euro was so vital to Germany’s external trade, then the increase in exports to euro zone members would have been greater than the increase to other countries. In fact, the reverse is the case."
- The Shirt From Hell: The appalling rise of the smelly, sweaty, scratchy no-iron shirt.
- I own a bunch of these and really don't mind them, but I found this rant a bit amusing. It was also interesting to read that: "this really is a guy thing; men's clothing last year was 11 times likelier than women's to be marketed as no-iron or wrinkle-resistant, based on figures from Cotton Incorporated, the trade group."