So here is a whole bunch of links to weird articles found in Slate's Human Nature section, including their Top 10:- Scientists have grown and implanted the first custom-made human organs (third arm, please!).
- In 10 years, self-reported oral sex has more than doubled among young people (same thing for anal...).
- Several US fertility clinics admit they've helped couples deliberately select DEFECTIVE embryos (backward eugenics?).
- Lesbian brains differ from straight women's brains (and gay men's brains differ from straight men's brains).
- Whiny kids grow up to be conservative (I wonder if Frank Sulloway's analysis of Birth Order can explain this even better).
- Chinese doctors performed the world's first documented penis transplant (don't be surprised if the next generation of Chinese men have black penises).
- The military is funding research into remote control of animals (even monkeys!).
- Scientists chopped off part of a chick embryo's wing and then grew it back (I'm not sure the chick appreciated getting its wing chopped off).
- A German institute is developing spray-on condoms (this wouldn't have anything to do with this entry of mine, would it?).
- Tall people are smarter than short people (I don't know... I know my fair share of tall idiots...).
- An anesthetic cream can help delay premature ejaculation (gee, a cream that you rub all over yourself is going to help you last longer? Only if it doesn't cause you to come right there and then!).
- Doctors remove 2 fetuses from a 2-month old girl (children having children?).
- Pregnancy triples your risk of a heart attack (but will they listen? Noooo...).
- Smiling, winking 2-year old two-headed infant died (both heads?).
- Old people are fighting efforts to get them off the road (maybe they should get some teenagers to help them...).
- A woman who gave birth to her own granddaughter (interesting family dynamics: this is mommy grandma, and this is aunt mom).
- The world's first museum exhibit on gay animals (I thought those dogs looked suspicious).
- A woman who tried to use her fetus to get out of a traffic ticket (at least she's creative).
- Smoking during pregnancy increases the odds of babies with the wrong number of fingers (for some, this might be motivation!).
- Professional soccer players are freezing their babies' own stem cells to cure their own injuries (a simple case of quid pro quo: I give you life, you fix me up).
- Having a TV in your room means you are half as likely to have sex with your spouse (and here I thought that sex stopped altogether after getting married... turns out it happens 8 times a month... if you don't have a TV!).
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