The arms race between increasingly insensitive clitorii and ever-more-capable penises sees us, much like the Red Queen, running to stand still:
Researchers at Yale have discovered that almost half of all women suffer from Female Sexual Dysfunction, while researchers at Boston University have discovered that oral contraceptives may irreversibly lower a woman’s libido.
It’s hard to imagine […]

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Majority of Physicians Give the Nod to Evolution Over Intelligent Design
Well thank God! Heh. I mean, thanks be to, um, the undefinable “Force” that binds us all and makes it possible, in theory at least, for Qui-Gon to pole Obi-Wan without lifting a finger.
(Will somebody invent an exclamation appropriate to a secular humanist, […]

Oh, those poor old people. Living anachronisms trapped in a rapidly-changing world that can’t help but appear menacing and alien to minds conditioned to regard Oleo and Mimeographs as pinnacles of human achievement.
Of course they get taken in by scammers and con artists—how could anyone born in an age when The Great War meant trenches […]

Swiss chemical ingredient manufacturer Lonza was a big winner at Wednesday’s 3rd Annual Excellence in Industrial Technologies Banquet in Naples, FL during an evening otherwise marred by violence.

The company’s groundbreaking Natrulan DermaSphere Oleosome Technology—feted for its amalgamation of emollient, emulsifier, and moisturizer in a single product—landed the coveted Personal Care Chemicals and Intermediates Technology Innovation […]

As the fact-loathing hordes that roam our Middle-Earth like so many Orcs increase their ranks, reasonable people begin to face a dilemma. Sure, swatting down your neighborhood IDiot’s hooey may seem to take little effort. But multiply that effort enough times and before long you’re losing man-hours by the hundreds. What’s a conscientious-but-busy nerd to […]

Last week two thoroughbred horses at Churchill Downs were euthanized because of an outbreak of equine herpes virus, while several others remain quarantined. Who knew that horseracing involved cheerleaders?

FYI: Bad teeth may signal risk for heart attacks in old people.
ALSO: Back hair linked to spontaneous combustion in midgets. Developing…

The latest from the No Doy Dept. over at the University of Heidelberg: Given the same amount of heavy drinking, the ladies get stupid much faster than men.
Quoth the Beeb: “Scientists have suspected for some time that men might be more resilient to booze than women. The German research gives visible evidence of this.”
“Suspected”? […]

Here’s a fact for you: five percent of the general population have fingerprints so damaged by manual labor or flawed by genetic anomaly that they can’t be correctly read by the Department of Homeland Security’s $10 billion system for screening potential terrorists arriving on U.S. soil. Launched in January of 2004, US-VISIT utilizes a network […]