This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Comparatively: People who own dogs or cats — Leah Michelle Baines and Jessica Lee Oliva at James Cook University in Australia say they have discovered that people who own dogs tend to be more resilient than those […]
This study required keep, persistent observatory behavior (or behaviour) on the part of the researchers: “Evidence to suggest that nightclubs function as human sexual display grounds,” Colin A. Hendrie [pictured here], Helena D. Mannion and Georgina K. Godfrey, Behaviour, vol. 146, 2009, pp. 1331-1348. (Thanks to Neil Martin for bringing this to our attention.) The […]
Sexual reproduction of beeches is the subject of surprisingly few studies. Here is one of the few: “Natural interspecific hybridization between sexual and apogamous species of the beech fern genus Phegopteris Fée,” Gerald A. Mulligan, Lionel Cinq-Mars, William J. Cody, Canadian Journal of Botany, 1972, 50(6): 1295-1300. BONUS: Phegoperis Fée
Teamwork pays off in this painstaking linguistic journey through a chunk of medical literature: “The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI): Linguistic Validation of the Italian Version,” Maria Teresa Filocamo MD1, Maurizio Serati MD2,*, Vincenzo Li Marzi MD3, Elisabetta Costantini MD4, Martina Milanesi MD3, Amelia Pietropaolo MD4, Patrizio Polledro MD1, Barbara Gentile MD5, Serena Maruccia MD6, […]
