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Archive for December, 2007



Women surgeons complain of bias by male chief

Sunday 30 December 2007 @ 11:59 am

Three female Indian neurosurgeons who currently or formerly worked at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have filed discrimination complaints against the new chairman of the department, Dr. Arthur Day, a respected and nationally known neurosurgeon.


Comments (0)  | Posted in Feminista, bias, sex and metropolis, sex politics, society    


Emerging Evangelical Intelligentsia

Sunday 30 December 2007 @ 11:58 am

Peter Berger concedes that the term “evangelical intelligentsia” will sound oxymoronic to many. And since the esteemed Boston University sociologist is a self-described “theologically very liberal Lutheran,” you would be within your rights to expect that he dismisses all evangelicals as yahoos.


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Program To Round Up Deadbeat Dads To End In Ohio

Saturday 29 December 2007 @ 1:13 pm

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The state said it’s ending a decade-old program that rounded up deadbeat dads one day or week a year to draw attention to people late with their child support payments.


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Sex, aggression, and humour: responses to unicycling

Saturday 29 December 2007 @ 12:18 pm

After retiring from a busy university department in Newcastle upon Tyne, and with the time and the need for more than the usual consultancies, I was able follow some of my more extreme inclinations. As a cyclist, I had occasionally thought of using more or fewer wheels, but it was only when choosing a grandson’s gift that I got seriously lost in contemplation of a gleaming chrome unicycle. My wife said “buy the bloody” thing, which I did on the whim of the moment. After months of practice at home, I graduated to back streets, a small paved park, and finally town roads. I couldn’t avoid being noticed; in turn, I couldn’t avoid observing the form that notice took. Because at the time there were no other unicyclists in the area, such sightings would have been exceptional, yet I soon found that the responses to them were stereotyped and predictable. I realised that this indicated an underlying biological phenomenon and set about its study.


Comments (0)  | Posted in biology, psychology, science and nature, sex and metropolis, sex science    


Plymouth mother fights child support order against her disabled teen son

Saturday 29 December 2007 @ 12:15 pm

Judge wants him to pay child support from his SSI checks, which are exempt.


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Monkeys pay for sex too

Thursday 27 December 2007 @ 3:04 pm

Male macaques exchange grooming for the right to mate with females whose fur they have cleaned, a study has found.


Comments (0)  | Posted in science and nature, sex science    


Men propose; women dispose

Thursday 27 December 2007 @ 3:03 pm

WOMEN often complain that dating is like a cattle market, and a paper just published in Biology Letters by Thomas Pollet and Daniel Nettle of Newcastle University, in England, suggests they are right. They have little cause for complaint, however, because the paper also suggests that in this particular market, it is women who are the buyers.


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Almost 30m Americans claimed “no religion” in 2001

Monday 24 December 2007 @ 12:28 pm

MITT ROMNEY hopes to become America’s first Mormon president. But, if he pulled off an unlikely victory, he would not be the first Mormon to take high office: his father was a governor and five current senators are Mormons. Nor would he be the first to break a religious barrier. John Kennedy was the first Catholic president; Joe Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, was Al Gore’s presidential running mate in 2000. And a Muslim congressman took his oath of office on a Koran in January, another first.


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Spears Pregnancy May Result in Television Special Rather than Criminal Charges

Monday 24 December 2007 @ 12:26 pm

Hollywood appears ready to step into the controversy over the pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spear in a truly signature way: it is ordering a special for television. While a debate rages over why this is being treated as an entertainment rather than criminal issue. Jamie Lynn’s 19-year-old boyfriend, Casey Aldridge, could be charged with statutory rape, carnal knowledge with a minor and even a Mann Act violation.


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Can Casey Aldridge Be Criminally Charged with Statutory Rape and other Offenses of Jamie Lynn Spears?

Monday 24 December 2007 @ 12:25 pm

The extensive media coverage of the pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears — sister of Britney Spears and television star in her own right — has focused on the sensational while ignoring the legal story: the articles describe a technical case of statutory rape. If Aldridge was having sex with Spears at age 15 or 16, he would be subject to a variety of criminal charges. The case should bring some attention to the inconsistent prosecution of statutory rape claims around the country and a reexamination of what we should be trying to achieve in these cases.


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