A new study helps to answer the question raised in Thomas Nagel’s 1974 philosophy essay What Is It Like to Be a Bat? A team of Chinese and British researchers focuses on an aspect of bat-ness that Nagel ignored: fellatio.
Nagel, a professor then at Princeton University, now at New York University, published his batty – batty in the truest, best sense – musings in a scholarly journal called Philosophical Review. Read the rest of this entry »
If you are male, a headline mentioning male sexual problems could be the key to getting you interested in scientific research. That’s the theory, perhaps, behind a health.com report that begins:
Study links BPA in plastics to erectile dysfunction
Bisphenol-A, a chemical found in hard, clear plastic used to make everything from baby bottles to food packaging, may increase the risk of erectile dysfunction and other sexual problems in male factory workers…
A new math journal specializes — exclusively — in research papers that have been rejected by other math journals.
A video shows a severed gecko’s tail gyrating in just the way described in Martin Eiger’s limerick:
Higham and Russell expound
On autotomy. Here’s what they found:
The tail of a lizard,
When severed or scissored,
Goes flipping and flopping around.
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The massive amounts of research and money put into U.S. border security has a new payoff: the recovery of a cheap car that was stolen 35 years ago.
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