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Gay Brains

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Science

That’s Einstein’s brain, y’all.

Researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, having scanned the brains of 90 gay and straight men and women, have come to the conclusion that a gay man’s brain structure resembles a straight woman’s brain structure more than a straight man’s.
In general, the two halves of a heterosexual woman’s brain are more or [...]

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Up With Futurists (and Singularity)!

June 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Science

I really love Futurists (or Futurologists, if you prefer) because I like to think of them as fortune tellers that Science (more or less) approves of.
I’m going to narrow the scope a little bit here, to just Dr. Ray Kurzweil, because he’s the only living Futurist I know anything about. But the reason [...]

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Can Men Breastfeed?

May 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Boobs, Science

Mr B Wijeratne, from Walapanee, Sri Lanka, breastfeeds his young daughter, Nisansala Madhushani. His wife died in childbirth and the child would not accept powdered milk. (2002)
Yes, under extreme circumstances. According to Scientific American, it is possible for men to produce breast milk if they produce abnormally high levels of prolactin hormone.
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