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50 Shades of love and sex/Valentine’s Day 2013
From my cover story in this week's Ventura County Reporter: Since the genetic basis of our species, Homo Sapiens, stabilized approximately 100,000 years ago, the reproductive nature of the human...
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The Sierra Club High Trips and why women liked them
In the High Trips, for about thirty years at the start of the 20th century, the Sierra Club as a mountaineering club peaked, surely. On those brilliantly organized journeys, as many as 200 people at...
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Whispering in the ear of nature’s secrets: Harriet Monroe
In Nature's Altars, Susan Schrepfer looks at how much it meant to women of the turn of (the 20th) century to go to the mountains. She writes: "High altitudes…released [women], they said, from the...
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Love as a force of nature: Jeanette Winterson
From an untitled post at Soaked in Soul: "I used to be a hopeless romantic. I am still a hopeless romantic. I used to believe that love was the highest value. I still believe that love is the highest...
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International Read Naked Day: A communion in Chicago
In Chicago, Valya Vupescu sounds enthralled by a reading and award show by the Naked Girls: "The ladies on the stage disrobed at the start of each of the three reading sessions of the night. They did...
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Hyperactivity linked to moms taking Tylenol-type painkilers
On the front page of the Los Angeles Times, Melissa Healy tells a story of a huge study in Scandanavia that shows that the active ingredient in Tylenol and Excedrine and many other over-the-counter...
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Men Explain It All: Hannah Gold returns the favor
The best book review of the year, hands down, by Hannah Gold in The Baffler, begins this way: "I have just sat down to dinner with my female friend and her two male friends she brought along, neither...
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The wisdom of Carl Jung on Eros and love (not)
In my medical experience as well as in my own life I have again and again been faced with the mystery of love, and have never been able to explain what it is. Like Job, I have had to “lay my hand on my...
View ArticleFemale spiders like males who can dance, sing better
From Science Friday, perhaps the most purely enjoyable science story of the year to date, about the Dance of the Peacock Spider. Seems we've been seeing many examples of species showing traits we...
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How good you are in bed: a woman’s perspective
Jessica Hagy has a crazy/great gift for simplification that often looks to me like wisdom. Something tells me she's right. But how could such a theory be tested?
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