Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
“Stand Back! I’m Going To Try SCIENCE!”
Shit fire and give up matches, who’da guessed?
Secondary sexual characteristics convey information about reproductive potential. In the same way that facial symmetry and masculinity, and shoulder-to-hip ratio convey information about reproductive/genetic quality in males, waist-to-hip-ratio (WHR) is a phenotypic cue to fertility, fecundity, neurodevelopmental resources in offspring, and overall health, and is indicative of “good genes” in women. Here, using fMRI, we found that males show activation in brain reward centers in response to naked female bodies when surgically altered to express an optimal (~0.7) WHR with redistributed body fat, but relatively unaffected body mass index (BMI).
Jeez, women let themselves get cut on to make men happy? Holy crap. Who knew?
So the science guys are discovering that it pleases the gentlemen when the ladies cavort around in skimpy clothing showing off their WHR’s. (WHR’s…hmmm…is there a hidden meaning buried in this report I wonder?) Statements like “These findings suggest that an hourglass figure activates brain centers that drive appetitive sociality/attention toward females that represent the highest-quality reproductive partners” make me wonder, who funded this? I could probably find out with a little bit of searching and skimming, starting with “This work was supported by a faculty induction award from the University of Liverpool and a grant from the Pioneer Fund.” And then figger out where that takes me. But something tells me I don’t really want to know.
Also, how come it fell to me to fancy things up with a picture of a nice-looking lady in a swimsuit? They’ll pump out this dry language with words like “appetitive” and “phenotypic” but they won’t use any pleasing visual aids, on that one-out-of-a-thousand occasion on which it is directly related to the chosen topic.
I got a study for you. My study says when it comes to the written word, some people just aren’t trying.
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Studies. Experts. Right.
Big boobs does it for me. Speaking of the strictly-physical, of course. We ALL know it’s the finely-tuned female mind that’s the real erotic component. Heh.
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