[b]Mary Roach
Monkeys offer an unadulterated demonstration of the power of hormones, as the females are not concerned about pregnancy or what their friends will think.[/b]
Just like chimps, right Satyr?
Last year, I was conversing by e-mail with an acquaintance who was investigating the black market in cadaver parts. She came into possession of a sales list for a company that provides organs and tissues for research. On the list was “vagina with clitoris.” She did not believe that there could be a legitimate research purpose for cadaver genitalia. She assumed the researcher had procured the part to have sex with it. I replied that physiologists and people who study sexual dysfunction still have plenty to learn about female arousal and orgasm, and that I could, with little trouble, imagine someone needing such a thing. Besides, I said to this woman, if the guy wanted to nail the thing, do you honestly think he’d have bothered with the clitoris?
I guess we’ll never know.
…many space psychology experiments these days focus on ways to detect stress or depression in a person who doesn’t intend to tell you about it.
Nothing gets past them these days.
You don’t need proof. You just need an inclination.
Ain’t that the truth?
A patient on the way to surgery travels at twice the speed of a patient on the way to the morgue. Gurneys that ferry the living through hospital corridors move forward in an aura of purpose and push, flanked by caregivers with long strides and set faces, steadying IVs, pumping ambu bags, barreling into double doors. A gurney with a cadaver commands no urgency. It is wheeled by a single person, calmly and with little notice, like a shopping cart.
Let’s file this one under, oh, I don’t know, “common sense”?
Aspirin and ibuprofen combat inflammation everywhere but the stomach and bowel; there they create inflammation.
Clearly as God intended.