When sex means reproduction, certain proclivities may simply not be part of cultural models of sexuality.
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Is there a genius in all of us?
Those who think geniuses are born and not made should think again, says author David Shenk.
The Truth About Female Desire: It’s Base, Animalistic and Ravenous
A new book on women’s sexuality turns everything we think we know on its head.
AAA: Voice-to-text devices worse driver distraction than cell phones
Think using hands-free technology to text, tweet or respond to e-mails while driving is safer than talking on a cell phone? You’re wrong, AAA says.
Beyond the Brain
Advances in neuroscience promise many things, but they will never explain everything.
Trying to Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home – ScienceNOW
Reminders of one’s homeland can hinder the ability to speak a new language. The findings could help explain why cultural immersion is the most effective way to learn a foreign tongue and why immigrants who settle within an ethnic enclave acculturate more slowly than those who surround themselves with friends from their new country.
Mindfulness can increase wellbeing and reduce stress in school children
Mindfulness — a mental training that develops sustained attention that can change the ways people think, act and feel — could reduce symptoms of stress and depression and promote wellbeing among school children, according to a new study published online by the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Wine-tasting: it’s junk science
Experiments have shown that people can’t tell plonk from grand cru. Now one US winemaker claims that even experts can’t judge wine accurately. What’s the science behind the taste?
Legal Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: From The Annals Of Bad Economic Research
Over here in Europe there’s been something of a scare campaign going on over “sex trafficking”. This is the idea that brutes and gangsters trick or force women into moving country and then hold them in sexual slavery: usually being forced to work as prostitutes. There’s been all sorts of research trying to look into how much this actually happens. Some says it’s pretty much non-existent, others that it’s a substantial minority of the whole sex industry. The truth is that people are simply using different definitions of what is “trafficking”. And it’s there that the entire subject becomes a complete and total mess.
When the Bully Is a Sibling
New research suggests that aggression between siblings — especially chronic abuse — can inflict psychological wounds as damaging as the anguish caused by school bullies.