Are We Attracted To Our Opposite?

They say that opposites attract. That presumes that the attraction is mutual, I suppose. (The gun totin’ Southern Redneck Good Ole Girl) I’m not sure that is always, or even often, the case. (Hitler Youth – more my son’s type than mine, really… but still…) Take the example some of the kinds of women to whom [...]

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Sex-starved fruit flies driven to drink more alcohol!

Let’s file this under the “Yew jus’ cain’t make this $#!t up!” category, shall we? Apparently… and I am NOT making this stuff up… sexually deprived male fruit flies exhibit a pattern of behavior that seems ripped from the pages of modern man’s ‘That’s the Story of My Life!’ When female fruit flies reject their [...]

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The Oldest Rock Art in the New World

A carving of a stick figure discovered by archaeologists in a cave in Brazil is believed to be the earliest example of rock art in the Americas and could shed new light on when the New World was first settled. (No, not THAT kind of rock art!) The team of archaeologists from the University of [...]

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Just in Time for Valentine’s Day: The Science Behind the Kiss!

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Sheril Kirshenbaum [1], science writer and author of the recent book, The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us, sheds light on exactly what goes on biologically when we lock lips. Kissing basically “acts like a drug by stimulating the natural chemicals in our bodies, yet unlike other [...]

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Robo-Sex Vacation Tours!

OK… This is what I come home to after a nice time away for the Jewish holidays! Robo-Sex Vacation Tours! (The new Robo-Stud 3000) Tourism futurologist (how about THAT for a job?) [1] Ian Yeoman from University of Wellington, New Zealand, said that by 2050 mass tourism would spawn a range of new indoor tourism [...]

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