If you’re like me, you love old-timey science and the peephole into the past that it gives us. I particularly love to learn about disorders that seemed to have a very strong social and cultural correlate. This particular article talks about hysteria and how, when doctors started to photograph patients in the throes of their [...]
We’ve all heard about those test animals that are given a treat followed by a painful shock and how they come to associate the treat with pain, even when not given the shock. Interestingly, the converse can also be true — if given a shock and THEN a treat (or a certain smell, or something [...]
You gotta love science. You can say shit like “I’d like to study bats sucking each other off” and then you can write it up (with video!) in a well-respected journal. But enough snark — I am always tickled when sex research of any kind reaches the masses, even if it’s (as yet) unrelated to [...]
Where has this page been all my life?
Nerve.com has a special section called “I Did It for Science” where people do things (sexual, romantic, otherwise) for… you know, Science! I haven’t checked them all out, but I love the idea and the willingness of these people to try something new, something they know they probably [...]
It seems to me as though there have been an alarming number of studies popping up about how (particularly straight) women are miserable, sexless, manipulative bitches. Some of this might be due to the excitable terriers that staff our various media outlets, who come up with headlines like this:
“He bought dinner. I was bored. He’ll [...]
| « Aug |
|
Oct » |
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | ||
| get our newsletter |
5232 N Sheridan Rd Chicago, IL
