Brains: Now, This Is Science!

Cool: Scientists design triple-helix molecule for storage and "life-like" techonologies

( Another wet nanotechnology puzzle piece )

The Secret Signals in Human Sweat

( Oh great, more pheremone ads )

Universe's Dark Matter Mix 'Just Right For Life'

( Oh, great. More confusion about the anthropic principle )

Python 3.0 Released

This falls under "Oh, heck."

PASWO: William Murchison says we should suspend the Constitution until those damn Muslims stop trying to tread on us

( Nausea-inducing )

Does CNN make sense to you?

Does this make sense to you at all? Just last week, CNN held a "Newspaper Summit" in which it pitched its internal newsgathering service as an alternative to the Associated Press and other Wire Services. AP is pricey, as AP well knows (and enforces so baldly and badly that there's a semi-popular boycott of AP articles in the blogosphere), and the other services aren't much better.

So, today CNN announced that it's shutting down it's Science, Space and Techonology desk. Although it's not clear from the article whether he quit or was pushed out, Miles O'Brien, one of the best journalists working the space geek beat, is leaving CNN as well. I liked Miles. He wasn't nearly as gung-ho for space geekery as the late John Holliman (who apparently was so popular at NASA they dedicated a building in his name), but he was great nonetheless.

The CNN Spokesdroid is just an idiot. "Since the bulk of our environmental coverage is through the Planet in Peril franchise, there is no need for a separate unit."

As if "the environment" and "science, space and techonolgy" were synonymous! I can't believe how infuriating that is to read.

Yo, CNN: Your audience is too ill-informed already about science-related issues, like vaccinations, overhead powerlines, food irradiation, genetically engineered crops, and the cost/benefit ratio of manufacturing (and recycling) an all-electric economy as opposed to a portable hydrocarbon economy. This is proof that neither you or they care enough to change that.

Gods, that pisses me off.

It can no longer be denied: Penthouse Forum messed up my sex life.

It was almost two years ago when I griped that I was in my "wild oats" stage of my life just as Penthouse Forum was informing just about everyone who'd listen that being a great cocksman was a difficult skill. That didn't matter, though, because the fine arts of foreplay foreplay and oral sex were not only more accessible, they were also more relevant. I was griping because I had discovered that as women get past thirty they discover that not only do they like intercourse, they like it long and hard.

Thank the Gods for Viagra.

So what do I read today? Talk about your confirmational biases: Women say foreplay is overrated, length of intercourse is most important to women. 15.4 minutes of foreplay was comparably less interesting than intercourse. The daunting figure in the article is that, in order to be truly satisfying intercourse should last "an average of 16.2 minutes."

Good grief. I think I can manage that the second time around.

Gotta wonder, though, if they interviewed women who were getting good foreplay, or those who got none at all? When did they measure the start of foreplay?

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I just took a look at the actual academic paper. The article gets a major detail blazingly wrong (surprise, that). It's not that women didn't enjoy foreplay less, or that intercourse was preferred. What the article says is that the length of foreplay is irrelevant to whether or not a woman will experience orgasm during intercourse, and that 16.2 minutes was what most women, whether or not they had foreplay, reported they wanted in order to achieve orgasm during intercourse.

I'll just file this under "My, how time flies when you're having fun."

Just one thought

From Fleshbot [NSFW, of course], yesterday:

We've never really spent much time watching bunnies fuck ... but it seems that bunnies are really, really into anal sex (which puts that whole furries thing way more into perspective for us, we must say).

Moan. Oh, if only.

Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

JWZ labeled this one under "Perversions." It's more than that. It's just wrong. And it's probably NSFW, too.

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