Wired.com has an article coming out July 7 on The Coming Boom in sexdrugs. I get print Wired, so I’ll share. ;) Big Pharma has made millions pumping up the male population. Now neuroscientists are reverse engineering the female orgasm…the first arousal drugs aimed at women’s gray matter are expected to be on the market […]

My blogfather, Joe Katzman sent me this oxytocin link. Lots of good stuff there! Recently we have talked about the neural-hormonal cascades involved in Dr. Helen Fisher’s three kinds of love, here, here, and here. I thought about this in the context of Ramez Naam’s excellent new book, More Than Human.Ramez sez (pg. 55):In the […]

My friend Dymphna sent me this pdf, (one of her irish cousins is a co-author), on Constructing an Animat Mind Using 505 Sub-Minds from 234 Different Authors. Coolio. Animat looks like an excellent paradigm for growing a hive mind on the internet. Perhaps the Singularity is already underway. ;) And then I looked at the […]

I thought this comment from razib is apropos to my poll, since I hypothesize that mate selection on IQ is an important factor for the XX.in the mating mind one way geoff miller pumps up sexual selection and polygyny is that it is a way to reduce genetic load and avoid mutational meltdown. miller also […]

There’s been a lot of high talk lately about how the XX are poorly represented in the fields of mathematics and physics (see razib’s seminal (heh) post Much Ado about Women and Larry Summers). Yet actually women are biologically superior to men in many aspects, including tolerance of heat, cold, pain and radiation. Women are […]

My New Year’s Resolution was to get way more serious, and write elegant, severe posts with lashings of bibliographies. But I have something I must get off my chest first. Laura visited us last month and said this– I’ve been reading gnxp for awhile now and have noticed the on going pattern that occurs on […]

David Boxenhorn is nominated in multiple categories at Israellycool, host of the Jewish/Israeli Blog Awards. His post from gnxp, Maladapted to Our Habitat is nominated for best individual post, and his Valley posts for best series. You can vote once a day, here. David’s blog, Rishon-rishon is also nominated for Best Overall, Best New, Best […]

Has anyone else noticed a change in the estrogen level here lately? I see a lot more XX types commenting and posting at gnxp. For example, long-time gnxper Jacqueline calls our attention to this article on a possible correlation between iron deficiency and math skills in girls. razib provides the complete pdf here.Also, the whole […]

I’d like to remind gnxpers that the polls are open at Aziz’s Brass Crescent Awards and (shocka!) razib is nominated for Best Thinker. You can vote here. Also, our own David Boxenhorn is nominated in several categories at Israellycool, but the polls are not open there yet. Posted by jinnderella at 10:16 AM

Godless has said before that the “Intelligent Design” contingent is foolish and wrong. This article in Wired points out that they don’t have to be correct, accurate or scientific, they just have to have good lawyers. As a pre-breeder that plans on using public schools, this scared the heck out of me. :( Posted by […]

Since razib wrote on Up From Ignorance I and II, and Consilience, I have begun to look at my daily reads a little more critically. How much do Science and Opinion really intersect?I think Belmont Club is a good model, and I am interested to see if gnxpers agree. So, I will point you to […]

Now it is the time of night,when all the graves are open wide,to let forth every dancing sprite,along the churchway paths to glide…Midsummer Night’s Dream In Scottm’s post on Japanese Ghosts, gnxpers wondered is there scientific proof of ghosts? I argue that we cannot provide it. Any proof offered is corrupted by our innate ability […]

Razib is the muse that inspired this, with his “Islam should be gelded” remark. Blame him. :) David B has a discussion of Sykes’ book, Adam’s Curse here, from a year ago. Sykes projects the end of the Y-chromosome in 50,000 generations or approx 120,000 years. David and the gnxpers disagree with him in the […]

Umm, this is my first post at Gene Expression, and I think I should explain the rather fanciful style of my writing. I adore faerytales, myths and legends, art and music, great literature and poetry, anime, film, and scifi. So these things always are incorporated into the way I think and write. The basic question […]