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Chicken Sexing They all look the same, until you get to know them. Source: Keith Weller, USDA ARS w/ Public Domain license. Chicken sexing is the art of separating chicks into females and males. This art

Curtain Open I recently happened upon an old VICE article about a lovely feminist who tried to introduce International Castration Day. Her utopian vision involved castrating 90% of the world's male population

Curtain Open In my previous post, I examined some of the influence pubertal hormones can have on us. Anyone who is still what I call a "hormone denier" is free to experiment by ingesting hormones

Boy eating ice cream and wondering why his picture is leading this article. Source: skeeze w/ Public Domain license. Curtain Open The influence of hormones on the body and the self is so well-established

Wiki calls it a Ptolemy map of the "old world". @lordneroo calls it mind porn. Source: Jacob d'Angelo after Claudius Ptolemaeus w/ Public Domain license. Curtain Open Almost everything I said

The Chinese phrase for "talking past each other" is "chicken talking to a duck". Source: Clker-Free-Vector-Images & Clker-Free-Vector-Images w/ CC0 Creative Commons license, modified.

No more fantasies, self-reports, and other driving simulators: here the rubber finally meets the rolliche! I mean road. Time to ride the real sausage-mobile, baby! Source: American Colony Jerusalem w/

Some people dream of octupuses. See here for a translation of the rather funny Japanese text. Source: Katsushika Hokusai, The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife w/ Public Domain license, modified. I'll begin

An ad for unbelievably reflective glasses? Or is there a meaning hidden in the reflection? Source: Janwillembreure w/ CC BY-SA 4.0 license, cropped and avail. under the same license. Curtain Open It begun

A teen's face trying to tell us something in Braille. Source: ionascloset w/ Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Curtain Open "Humans are unique among primates."[1] Thus begins a piece published

Is this water puzzle the most solid experiment in the field of sex differences? Source: qimono w/ CC0 Creative Commons license. Curtain Open It's called the WLT, short for Water-Level Task. I want to introduce

Why do scientists show nudies to children? • Do US presidents crossdress? • Do we know boys and girls before we know penises and vaginas? • Can barrettes be weaponized? • Are images of the galaxy awful?

What do children have in common with monkeys? • Is personality homemade? • Is it funny to experiment on infants? • Are identical twins identical? • Do parents label their kids? • Was William Golding right

This'll be a short one. Source: Miles Wolstenholme Curtain Open Not all the studies I read end up in my posts. They might not fit the general flow, have nothing new to offer, or excised for other reasons.

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity." - Oscar Levant Source: Pxhere Curtain open: 135 studies of brains Remember how, in the previous post of this series, I talked about the twirls

No nail-biting suspense for you! Source: Pxhere Curtain Open In part 1 of this trilogy (yes, it's going to be a trilogy), I took a few stabs at the question of whether the brains of females and males are

Chromosomes are so passé. Introducing: chromobrains! Source: Muffinator, modified Curtain open In 1992, Time magazine published an article in which it was suggested that a brain difference in males vs

Source: Ronald Carlson & Wikimedia Commons, modified Where is sex? If you ask that question to a person in the street, they'll likely point you to a titty bar. Or, if you happen to live in a college

Various attempts by the Swiss to apply their Army Knife toolmaking skills to gender symbol creation. I think. Source: Wikimedia Commons Are men smarter than women? Do women live longer than men? Are men

Chimera: accurate gene function measures call for disparate animal parts. Source: I, Sailko Curtain open Why is the mouse such a laboratory darling? Is it because, being a mammal, it serves as a better