Barry Komisaruk, professor of psychology at Rutgers University, is celebrated for research demonstrating that women can have multiple orgasms. He can also be celebrated for his multiple publications about women’s orgasms. These include: Komisaruk, B.R., Beyer-Flores, C., and Whipple, B. (2006) The Science of Orgasm. In press. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 358 pages. […]
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Pigeon-toed gait in intelligent women?
Bruce Charlton, editor until recently of the journal Medical Hypotheses, writes in his blog: Pigeon-toed gait endemic among intelligent young women: medical note I have observed that a pigeon-toed gait is now endemic among intelligent young women (such as students). A pigeon-toed gait means walking such that the toes of the feet are turned-inwards…. Being […]
Ovulating Women Ogle Forgettable Men
A soon-to-be-published study ogles women who ogle while they ovulate: “I Only Have Eyes for You: Ovulation Redirects Attention (But Not Memory) to Attractive Men,” Uriah S. Anderson, Elaine F. Perea, D. Vaughn Becker, Joshua M. Ackerman, Jenessa R. Shapiro, Steven L. Neuberg and Douglas T. Kenrick, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, article in press […]
%-of-men vs. %-of-women
Further data from our What Percentage of All Statistics Are Pointless? project — a comparison of google search results for the phrase “percentage of men” versus a search for “percentage of women”:
Hammering, in ten persons
To research a difference between men and women, discussable results can be obtained by testing only five men and five women. Such is evident from this experiment: “Trade-offs between force and accuracy in human hammering performance” Duncan J. Irschick and Justin Henningsen University of Massachusetts 5 Women, 5 Men 5 trials per treatment 3 Nail […]
Lower Working-Class Women’s Expletives
Expletives of Lower Working-Class Women, published in 1992 in the journal Language in Society, is a rare sociolinguistic study of this inherently provocative topic. “This article,” wrote author Susan Hughes of the University of Salford, “sets out to look at the reality of the swearing used by a group of women from a deprived inner-city […]
Engineering frontiers: The untapped power of breast motion
Harnessing the untapped power of breast motion one day recently I had an idea. As I rode public transportation to the office, my messenger bag slung uncomfortably across my chest, I thought, “Why not put the girls to work?” Human-powered devices are showing up everywhere, from Rotterdam’s sustainable dance floor to human-powered gyms in Hong […]