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the last on my list of the most amazing and possibly even true scientific phonomena that blow my mind, continued: Lucy
Posted on April 9, 2013 by nikkimeredith in odds and sods, science/research, top ten lists.Lucy was an unabashedly uninhibited girl of the ‘60’s for whom the sexual revolution was beside the point. She was able to tap into her erotic resources with no help from Masters and Johnson and she instinctively took responsibility for her own orgasms without so much as a glance at Our Bodies, Ourselves. Lucy’s story […]
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my top ten list of the most amazing and possibly even true scientific phenomena that blow my mind, continued: the coolidge effect
Posted on March 18, 2013 by nikkimeredith in odds and sods, science/research.I wonder if anyone will take offense if I propose that when it comes to sex, males have an appetite for novelty. I’m not sure appetite is the right word when you’re talking about non-human animals but scientists refer to the male predilection for variety as the Coolidge Effect. A bull, worn out from copulation, […]
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my top ten list of the most amazing and possibly even true scientific phenomena that blow my mind, continued: body identity integrity disorder
Posted on February 19, 2013 by nikkimeredith in odds and sods, science/research, top ten lists.It’s spring on I-5, my favorite time to be driving to Los Angeles. Miles of apricot, peach and almond trees are in bloom. The experience is so inspiring, that I reach to turn-off NPR – I’m too happy to listen to the world’s problems. But my finger pauses half-way to the radio: a reporter from […]
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my top ten list of the most amazing and possibly even true scientific phenomena that blow my mind, continued
Posted on February 10, 2013 by nikkimeredith in odds and sods, science/research, top ten lists.As I wrote last week, the criteria for this top ten “best” list is a little mysterious even to me. From the raging river of data that flows through my brain daily, some bits and pieces stick. Sometimes they hang on because they reveal something startling or offer a little piece of a larger puzzle. […]
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ten of the most amazing and possibly even true scientific phenomena that blow my mind
Posted on January 31, 2013 by nikkimeredith in odds and sods, science/research, top ten lists.When I was a little girl, my family camped in Yosemite Valley every summer. My favorite memory from those trips was a night we slept outside on cots. I assume the moon was a sliver because the sky was inky and I remember saying to my father that the stars looked like diamonds. I must […]
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