The acronym that many men fear… A sudden slew of papers in the last week on the subject of the female hormonal cycle, which all try to explain why some women behave differently prior to their menstrual periods. This is a phenomenon with which hetero men use to explain away what they think of as […]

From BBC news: Aids virus ‘could be weakening’ I’m not familiar with the HIV field of research, nor have I read this particular paper, but I strongly suspect that this refers to a small cohort, probably in Belgium (facts need to be checked when I have access to the paper). The way the AIDS virus […]

Just catching up on life science news. This article from Nature caught my eye: Intelligent design. The most startling statistics are that: 43% of American teenagers believe that “human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process”; 38% believe that “God created human beings pretty […]