Men have rather unique and peculiar genitalia. For their body size, the penis is slightly longer and thicker than other primates. Plus, in its flaccid state the human penis does not retract into the body, like many other species. A popular explanation for this uniqueness is that “Size Does Matter,” or in the scientific vernacular, [...]
Mar
10
Virtual Reality can implant false memories and do other stuff
“Right now, we’re inside a computer program?” Asks a very a perplexed Neo in the 1999 classic, The Matrix. He has just realised that the world around him is virtual reality. While The Matrix is fictitious, according to some scientists, it’s very easy for us to confuse virtual reality for, well, reality. The quote opens [...]
Feb
10
Mum! How was the moon born?
As a kid, I figured that adults knew all of the big things in life: Why is the grass green? Why do zebras have stripes? How the moon was born? … and so on. I didn’t know the answers, but I was sure the adults did. So, it came to my surprise to realise that [...]
Jan
10
Where’s my Viagra? (And the trouble with “curing” female orgasmic disorder)
Clinicals trials are currently underway for a “female viagra”. For some, this is exciting news – that could bring a lot of fun into their bedrooms. But, others are concerned that the hunt for female viagra is merely a cash cow for pharmaceuticals. Tefina is a nasal spray being developed by Trimel Pharmaceuticals to help [...]
Dec
28
“Impossible” to decipher secret Pigeon message
British intelligence agents think it’s impossible to decipher an encrypted message written in WWII, and recently found attached to the leg of a pigeon. The bird’s skeleton was discovered in the chimney of 17th-century home in Surrey, UK in 1982 when the home owner, David Martin, was restoring his chimney. David Martin, told the The [...]
Nov
19
Is Google giving us Attention Deficit Dis….? Weves.
Remember the days before Google? We’d sit around the dinner table, and wonder about things. Why is the sky blue? Who won the first Academy Awards? Can riding a bike cause erectile dysfunction? Y’know. The big questions. And we’d keep on wondering, until someone could be bothered walking over to the Encyclopedia to look it [...]
Oct
29
Internet turns 43 today
Growing up in the 1990s, I remember when the internet was starting to reach into our homes. I remember printing penguin photos from The Web on paper with awkward holes on the side. I remember the the first time I flirted with boys it was online, and I remember my mother stopping dinner to check [...]
Oct
15
Those crazy lil chemicals called Love
Love is a many-splendored thing. There are many splendid hormones and chemicals that flood your brain and induce that curious, almost drug like state, of “going gaga”. Indeed, a bunch of intriguing human and animal experiments have unraveled the key processes involved in love. And they tell us that there is no magic to the [...]