Newsflash: Being physically fit is good
And if you’re female and your exercise capacity is lacking, you’re a lot more likely to die. Happy Thursday. And a disclaimer: This article (written by the AP and not the Times) also has one of the most confusing, most poorly-written leads ever. The information is interesting. The writing is really bad.
...read moreWomen With AIDS on the Rise in China
HIV/AIDS rates are on the rise in China, especially among women. Experts believe part of the problem is lack of education and information on sexual health. “The number of women infected with HIV/Aids is climbing,” Wei Jian’an, an official with China’s Aids Prevention and Treatment office, told the China Daily. …Health Minister Gao Qiang blamed [...]
...read moreLiving in the Green
President Bush claims that signing onto the Kyoto protocol would “wreck” the U.S. economy. And the lovely Portland, Oregon — one of my personal favorite U.S. cities — is proving him wrong. Newly released data show that Portland, America’s environmental laboratory, has achieved stunning reductions in carbon emissions. It has reduced emissions below the levels [...]
...read moreHard Science
Good news, men! Most men who think they have small penises don’t. via Pandagon UPDATE: For a visual representation, here is a penis size bell curve. I have no idea if this chart is accurate or not, but it ain’t the size so much as how you groove it.
...read moreRare Case of Menstruating Boy
Despite the very real dangers inherent to this case, I’m wondering what “behavior and traits like a woman” means. He must have a fluff blog. In an extremely unusual case, a Kolkata doctor is treating a teenage boy who has been showing symptoms of menstruation. The 15-year-old ‘effeminate’ boy’s bleeding has been occurring in the [...]
...read moreBreasts, redefined
According to the LA Times, a growing number of American women are getting breast implants – and many want the FDA to speed up its approval of silicone implants, despite the fact that the safety of silicone is questionable. Now, I tend to have a live-and-let-live mentality when it comes to beauty regiments, including plastic [...]
...read moreWho’s your daddy?
Do children conceived via sperm donation have a right to know who their father is? Slate editor David Plotz takes on the potential ban on gay sperm donors, saying that donor anonymity is a more important issue. He’s right that it’s ridiculous to ban sperm donations by any man who has had sex with another [...]
...read moreMen and Day Spas
The New York Times has an article today about men attending day spas. While it’s mostly fluff, it’s based, of course, on all the differences between male spa-goers (of which there are very few) and female. Only 15 percent of the guests at Rancho La Puerta are men, and the educational programs are heavy on [...]
...read moreWhy I Heart Dr. Charles
The sometimes crossed signals between testosterone and estrogen in the developing young body demonstrate the pliability of external gender. When that conflicts with inner gender indentity it can be quite traumatic, especially for 13 year-old boys. It may be a valuable right of passage for the heterosexual male if only for the simple demonstration that, [...]
...read moreOpen Blogging Schiavo…
I’m Dylan, and I spew my rhetoric at Something Requisitely Witty and Urbane. I hope this doesn’t bore anyone to death about a subject that is already getting beaten into the ground, but here’s my take. And now for the most often typed phrase in the blogosphere over the past 3 weeks: I haven’t written [...]
...read moreOn the Culture Of Life
A modified letter on the matter of Terri Schiavo coverage suggested by Goose, sent to dozens of mainstream media outlets: Dear Sir or Madam: I know it is too late to make a difference in the outcome of the legislation, but it is reprehensible that Republican lawmakers and the President are willing to interfere in [...]
...read moreEven More On Schiavo
Majikthise: Morally and legally, the Terri Schiavo case is about a patient’s right to refuse medical treatment. …there is an overwhelming consensus any adult has the right to refuse any medical treatment. Disabled and incapacitated patients retain this right. The only difference is that these patients must be represented by guardians charged to speak on [...]
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