Oct 6, 2006

Women as fast as men, almost

Posted in Sex, podcast at 6:00 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment

Scientists in Canada have used a close relative of night-vision goggles to watch women and men become sexually aroused while watching videos. Their study reveals that arousal happens in women just as rapidly as it does in men.

“Comparing sexual arousal between men and women, we see that there is no difference in the amount of time it takes healthy young men and women to reach peak arousal,” says Irv Binik …

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Oct 4, 2006

Art for Science Sake

Posted in Science, podcast at 12:19 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment

Two books long overdue for review here, have a more than nanoscopic layer of dust on their covers having sat atop of a pile of other books long overdue for review here that has grown systematically to more than a metre in height. Not the most poetic of intros to a review of scientific poetry but then I haven’t got all day to wax too lyrical.

Art Stewart reckons communication problems are significant obstacles to science …

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Sep 29, 2006

Earworms burrow into your brain

Posted in Science, podcast at 12:00 am by David Bradley -- 2 Comments; add yours

I just can’t get you outta my head…is the usual thought when an irritatingly catchy pop song gets stuck on loop in your brain for days on end. A start-up company in East Anglia reasoned that this catchiness might be put to good use in helping people quickly learn a foreign language. Or, at the very least, a couple of dozen keyphrases that will help them get by while on holiday or a business trip …

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