Oral Sex and Preeclampsia

“Correlation Between Oral Sex and a Low Incidence of Preeclampsia: A Role for Soluble HLA in Seminal Fluid?” C.A. Koelman, A.B. Coumans, H.W. Nijman, I.I. Doxiadis, G.A. Dekker, and F.H. Claas, Journal of Reproductive Immunology, vol. 46, no. 2, March 2000, pp. 155–66 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0165-0378(99)00062-5). (Thanks to Paolo Usai and Eugene Rubach for bringing this to […]

Blood, Fingers, and Genes

Researchers are delving into the blood, fingers, and genes of financial traders. Here are some of the studies that may give us insights into the success or failure of the traders, and of the researchers who study the financiers’ digits and chemical composition. Here, too, are a few earlier studies that probe the mysteries of […]

Boys Will Be Boys: Financial Trading

Manly and womanly behavior diverge when people play the stock market, hints this report: “Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investmen,” Brad Barber and Terrance Odean, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 116, no. 1, February 2001, pp. 261-92 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/003355301556400). The authors, at the University of California, Davis, report: Theoretical models predict that […]

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