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The whites of their eyes
An eye-opening publication in the Journal of Human Evolution garnered some press as noted here in The Economist, Eyeing up the collaboration, and Why eyes are so alluring from LiveScience.com Michael...
View ArticleMature fit F ISO vigorous boy toy.
Male chimps apparently dig older females as reported recently in LiveScience. Young chimpanzee tarts cause nary a second look from the guys according to Martin Muller, an anthropologist at Boston...
View ArticleSpider Sex – Yes! Yes!! YES!!!
As an arachnophobe (see Do I Get a Badge for This?), the title alone, Spider Cries Out During Sex, was enough to give me a powerful case of the heebie jeebies. Then I started reading the article from...
View ArticleCichlids: Who’s the Biggest Wanker Here?
Way back when I had a time to maintain a freshwater aquarium (pre-career and pre-children), my favorite fish were a pair of firemouth cichlids, Thorichthys meeki. This happy couple reproduced and...
View ArticleIt’s all about the bonobos, baby!
As the grizzled matriarch of the Chimpanzee Refuge, it behooves me to call attention to tonight’s Nova: The Last Great Ape. Our close cousins, Pan paniscus, the bonobos, are featured. The PBS site’s...
View ArticleArachnosex, pt. 2: Spiders Love to Snuggle!
Just as a toddler who persisently pokes the light socket with a fork, looking for the forbidden jolt, so I invariably open spider links on Live Science. This latest salacious spidey-bit did not...
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The Scent of a Man…or a Monkey.
I previously confessed that I subscribe to that glossy hardcopy glut of advertising called Vanity Fair. Invariably, the mag contains photo spreads of ripple-ab’ed dudes hawking various men’s cologne....
View ArticleMeet my cousins, the beech trees
I mentioned in my previous entry the sense of transcendence I feel when I observe the green light passing through a tree’s leaves. My neighborhood woods on Princeton Ridge is full of tall trees,...
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Bonking in the Name of Science
Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Spook, has a new book debuting this month: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. To promote her new book, Roach is making the interview rounds. Check out her...
View ArticleDon’cha love…the little baby?
A friend in another galaxy far away, when presented with photos of another friend’s wide-eyed infant, remarked that the cute (and she truly is) baby made her icy heart melt. In today’s New York Times,...
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