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Alice with the dormouse Sperm donation is an area full of unknowns: there really are few laws or regulations, and how would you enforce them anyway? We probably need some kind of national regulatory authority on this one — the cost to the children born is simply too large. So, not surprisingly perhaps, a...
Sunday morning in Fifth Avenue, New York Just returned from a brief trip to NYC. We were in for a relative’s stage performance, and to help with some of the preparations — so it was a tight schedule. Easter Sunday at St. Pat’s in NYC was spectacular, if you are so inclined. In fact,...
I lurve experiments where oxytocin is squirted up people’s noses. Oxytocin-up-the-nose affects your ability to recognize people you’ve seen before — and, according to two new reports, this effect is most pronounced if you see them displaying the same emotion that you first saw them displaying. Happy memories are the strongest. So, don’t be...
It claims that female genital mutilation is no basis for allowing asylum claims, as once the mutilation has already occurred, there is no reason to believe that you would be further persecuted.
This post is about the neural correlates of those who seek power for power’s sake — without any emotional component — but first, a Dateline NBC example: A 12 year old girl accused her stepfather of sexually abusing her. Because the stepfather felt he was wrongly accused, he built a bunker in the backwoods,...
Heather Mills “Victory” sign via Daily Mail Heather Mills’ self-serving public statements demonstrate two major themes: lack of justification of behaviors toward her and minimization and justification of her behaviors toward Sir Paul and others. Ms. Mills is similar to men who are in batterer intervention programs — both display this type of self-deception,...
“Système d’attraction” , in “Les métamorphoses du jour,” By J. J. Grandville, Albéric Second, Charles Blanc In contrast to recent reports about Elliott Spitzer’s self-destruction, womens’ sex habits have been largely ignored. So here’s the news flash: Almost all adult American women have sex, whether married or not. (HT: Docuticker). But, almost 40% of...
On St. Patrick’s day, pour yourself a green beer, not a green wine: wine and spirits cause more hippocampal volume loss than does beer (in chronic alcoholics, anyway). There are probably other good reasons for not drinking green wine, although some clever marketing group will probably market a sauvignon vert . . . ....
Here's the math: About 1.8 million Islamic Jihadists (although only about 300,000-400,000 on the government list) About 1 Trillion for the war (conservatively) $1 trillion/1.8 million = $555,555 each That's enough to get a Mullah to retire and move to Scottsdale.
This post is about health care costs — but let me digress into how end-of-life decision- making came onto my radar. A few years ago, as the Terri (Schindler) Schiavo tragedy played out during prime time, I went to see Bodyworlds, at a museum near the medical school downtown. While leaning over the light...
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