ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I wrote this post some weeks ago.  It's delayed, because I contacted the Pew researchers for further information.  I never got it, so...

Partly because I didn't follow the events when they happened, but partly because others have written the more interesting stuff. ...

A new meta-study looks at the vast field of evolutionary psychology studies into menstrual cycle and women's impregnation preferences ...

At MSNBC website , the right-hand column listed most recent comments attached to this topic.  The one I saw at the time of my reading was:...

It may shock some political pundits in the US, but eighteen years is a long time, when measured by human experience.  I  recall reading abo...

This is a pretend-review, and mostly about the write-up of the study,  because I couldn't read the study without paying for it, so al...

The bad news first , because the good news at the end leaves you feeling better:  A World Health Organization report on maternal mortali...

My ability to write and Twitter are mortal enemies.  Just realized that.  If I spend time reading tweets I somehow cannot write.  This may ...

I get letters from all sorts of people, including a recent one from Rand Paul (probably from his minions).  It asks for money, in support o...

The recent predictions that we are entering a post-antibiotics age, an age where a small scratch can, once again, mean death, must be adde...

I've got a backlog of studies I should write about, but in some cases the popularizers didn't dare to touch them (women have an evo...

It's difficult to find out what is happening (my earlier post is here ).  The rumors are that the kidnapped teenagers have either been...

1.  This is the sort of thing liable to happen when guns must have rights to be carried everywhere. 2.  A Republican candidate for South...

Lawyers, Gun and Money discusses  Rod Dreher's conservative ideas about why Swarthmore College has been accused of covering up sexual ...

1.  I love Megan McArdle's beginning sentence in her book review of Thomas Piketty's book about wealth inequality*: I apologize ...

This is such a fun example of the Instant Expertise when it comes to the extremely complicated and much-researched question why there is a...

Melissa Gira Grant has written a book about prostitution ( Playing the Whore ), and Katha Pollitt writes about the book in her fairly recent...

I'm trying to create a series of small-to-medium thoughts, as a way to spring-clean some of the junk that hangs around in my brain.  Th...

This is from the know-nothing-but-priestsplain-files , and that's what makes it both funny and very sad.  Cardinal Dolan was defending ...

Perhaps as many as 234 schoolgirls in Nigeria were recently kidnapped by Boko Haram : The kidnappings are believed to have been carried ...