ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

You may have read about the populist right-wing movement called Operation American Spring and its planned march in Washington, DC this wee...

The first sentence in the post below is one long paragraph!  A boa constrictor sentence, a sentence you cannot read without drawing in more...

Remember how in my previous post about this I pointed out that the abrupt and brusque and pushy firing of the first female executive edito...

She was the executive editor of the New York Times , from September, 2011 until now.  That is one of the top jobs in journalism on our puny...

The Reason magazine' recent cover about video games in the US provoked some comments.  Here's the cover: I haven't rea...

I have followed the talk about the US Republicans' woman problem with awe and fascination.  It's terribly exciting, a bit like some...

Didn't that headline shock you?  After all, what China has is the exact reverse of that: an excess men problem.   Indeed, the probable ...

This is an interesting story about her 1964 Nobel Prize and how it was written up in the UK: Hodgkin remains the only British woman to ...

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...