What is up with the skanktastic science news this week? First we hear about Toxoplasma gondii, the friendly cyst-borne parasite that “turns women into sex kittens.” (Screw fluoride: who’s the civic genius to start putting this in the water supply?) Then there’s the discovery a set of genes that directly tracks the likelihood of your […]

Easily-abused-if-taken-out-of-context News Alert: “Men who father daughters, not sons, may be at a greater risk of developing prostate cancer, researchers have said.”
Or, if you prefer the Braveheart version: Those feudal lords unlucky to sire only daughters are not only consigning the future of their clan line to death, but probably their own underperforming loins as […]

Those nerdy nymphets at Inky Circus up and launched an online magamazine when we weren’t looking. It’s slick and smart and profesh-looking, and y’all should go give them some traffic-love. But something about it still says “beta” to us. To wit, from an article about cognitive psychology:
Made you look! A naked body, flashed for an […]

New York magazine has a bitchily fun piece in its current “All about the Benjamins” issue in which a reporter somehow gets a Sex & The City-esque coven group of single girlfriends to talk On The Record about the effects that their wildly-differing incomes have on their bond with each other. A socialite and a […]

First Kim Hyun Jung, and now an apocalyptic pan-national fuck fest? What am I doing on my laptop here in this Amsterdam brothel? Me and my libido are going to South Korea!
Ever since Kim Jong Il pulled his little underground nuclear no-no earlier this month, condoms have been flying off South Korean quickie mart […]

This Just In: a Limey psychologist published a “study” claiming conclusive proof that men are, on average, smarter than women. Money quote:
Prof Rushton believes the differences are directly linked to brain size, with other studies showing men having slightly bigger brains than women.
Let the dispassionate, measured debate begin! We’ll be gleefully tracking the idiocy on […]

There are often times in my day where I have to stop and think, “thank God I’m a dude.” Sure, I’m as feminist as the next asshole, but the sad truth is that in many ways it’s still easier to get by in this world if you happen to have a wang. Just ask Ben […]

British researchers have recently determined that betting on World Cup soccer matches can actually result in heart rates well above orgasm level. Soccer more exciting than sex? I guess it makes sense: not only is the World Cup the shit, it only comes around once every four years while your wife/girlfriend is always up in […]

Dig Malcolm Gladwell’s latest bit of well-packaged hoo-hah in the New Yorker today - while ostensibly profiling Cesar “The Dog Whisperer” Millan, The Media Polymath We Love to Hate also makes an implicit case that Millan’s subliminal obedience training may double as a handy method for controlling your tweaky autistic child. Or the ol’ ball-n-chain. […]