So many of the products that surround us defy common sense. I’m not talking about the “What do vegans eat at Christmas?” craziness of the Tofurky. Or even the unrealistic-fear-of-germs obsessiveness of the antibacterial chopping board. Rather, I’m talking about the…
Humans are pretty odd animals. Any list of our odd features would be a long one, but menopause would have to come in right near the top. Where men’s capacity to reproduce diminishes steadily at about the same rate…
Like almost everybody else I spoke to today, I was staggered, this morning, to hear Todd Akin’s comments about “legitimate rape” and pregnancy. The Missouri Republican, who is running for Senate, was justifying his opposition to abortion even in cases…
Former SEX LAB PhD student Megan Head (now at Exeter) and her colleague Amber Teacher (Helsinki) took out second place at NESCENT‘s Evolution Film Festival which ran recently at the first Joint World Congress on Evolutionary Biology. Their winning video “Dating…