Who Looks Where How Often

“Gender Differences for Specific Body Regions When Looking at Men and Women,” Johannes Hewig, Ralf H. Trippe, Holger Hecht, Thomas Straube and Wolfgang H.R. Miltner, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, vol. 32, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 67–78 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10919-007-0043-5). (Thanks to Nicole Bordes for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, report: […]

Male quail porn stars

“Female Japanese Quail Affiliate With Live Males That They Have Seen Mate on Video,” A.G. Ophir and B.G. Galef, Jr., Animal Behaviour, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 369—75. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/anbe.2003.2229). (Thanks to Elinor Lichtenberg for bringing this to our attention.) (That’s an excerpt from the article “Boys Will Be Boys,” Published in AIR 14:4.)

Combinatorics in Equador

“Gringas and Otavaleos — Changing Tourist Relations,” Lynn A. Meisch, Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 22, no. 2, 1995, pp. 441-62. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0160-7383(94)00085-9) The author, who is at Stanford University, reports that: This article examines the romantic and sexual next-term relations between young foreign women (gringas) and indigenous men (Otavaleos) in Otavalo, Ecuador. It argues that […]

A Trickle of Interest

“Food Idiosyncrasies: Beetroot and Asparagus,” S.C. Mitchell, Drug Metabolism and Disposition, vol. 29, no. 4, part 2, 2001, pp. 539-43 (http://dmd.aspetjournals.org/cgi/content/full/29/4/539). (Thanks to Danny O’Hare for bringing this to our attention.) The author, at Imperial College School of Medicine, London, reports: Anecdotal observations scattered throughout the literature have often provided clues to underlying variations in […]

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