Random links
- Places Actually Discovered by Europeans, Mapped
- "The tiny islands that European explorers really did discover."
- Calgary researchers react to stem cell breakthrough
- Apparently Chinese researchers have come up with "an easy and safe way to transform an ordinary cell into a stem cell." Interesting quote from a researcher cited in the article "Everybody is excited because they behave like [embryonic] cells"
- Ode to Joy: Join a choir. Science shows it’ll make you feel better.
- Perhaps a good reason for atheists / agnostics to consider joing one of those "atheist churches" that have been popping up?
- A Response to "The Economics of Slut-Shaming"
- "Among the anthropological records of 93 pre-industrial societies collected in the nineteenth century (and compiled in the 1960s by Peter Murdock and Douglas White), only 17 societies had the belief that men’s sexual urges are stronger than women. Seventy-one believed that men and women had equally strong sex drives and, remarkably, five believed that women had stronger sex drives than men." (see #601 here)