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Tuesday 8th March 2011

Getting ‘Personal’: The Peculiarities Of Attraction

A glance through the personal ads in the newspaper confirms what most of us might have been expecting when it comes to seeking out the perfect partner: one study of 1000 such advertisements in the USA found that indicators of high fertility and good resources — like physical…

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Tuesday 8th March 2011

Looking Good

In this day and age, a disproportionately large emphasis is placed on physical attractiveness and external appearance. The catwalks are dominated by impossibly thin, young, attractive men and women — the superlative epitome of physical attractiveness, or so we are indoctrinated into believing. However, this is not just…

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Wednesday 2nd March 2011

The Weekly Scientist on Organic Food

I recently asked a friend to buy me a pint of milk. He came back with some organic milk. Being a student, obviously my first, and frankly only, concern was that there was one less drink I could buy at Ocean. However, my friend was eager to point…

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Wednesday 23rd February 2011

Sexy Science: The Weekly Scientist on Bad, Bad Men

With his gun-toting escapades and a habit of never waking up to the same woman more than once, James Bond turns out to be not just the antithesis of the pasty, sensible Englishman; he’s also everything evolutionists would expect not to have survived the brutal force of natural…

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Monday 14th February 2011

Sexy Science: The Weekly Scientist on The Other Big C

Commitment issues in relationships have been the cause of many a broken heart. Relationships have been rapidly torn apart by suspicions of infidelity, mainly via the 21st century medium of Facebook. The saucy inbox messages or the inappropriate pokes can lead to heated arguments, days in bed, and…

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Tuesday 8th February 2011

Sexy Science: The Weekly Scientist on the History of STDs

February, the month of love; love has a different meaning in the biological world. As you will see in the magazine’s Valentine Special, it can be broken down into brain chemistry and animal instincts. To the microbiologist, however, it also conjures up images of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).…

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Tuesday 1st February 2011

Sexy Science: The Weekly Scientist on Sperm Wars

When it comes to sex, devious trickery is aplenty. Whether its killer semen, or barbed, multi-tasking penises; you name it, the randy male has it in his arsenal — truly, sadomasochism as only Mother Nature could have invented it. Take a look at the female fruit fly for…

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Tuesday 25th January 2011

The Weekly Scientist on the Atomic Bomb

When I hear that an estimated 236,000 people died in the nuclear attack on Hiroshima on August 6th 1945, I often think that the true value of this figure is lost on us. 236,000 people…That’s almost the same as the entire population of the City of Nottingham, or…

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Monday 17th January 2011

What Women Don’t Know About Their Womb

National chlamydia rates are currently between two and six percent. Everyone has heard of chlamydia despite a relatively low prevalence rate. One in four women have fibroids, but when I asked 20 students whether they had heard of them before, only five had. Although they sound like something…

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Monday 17th January 2011

Volcanoes or What Lies Beneath…

If you haven’t lived under a rock for the past 12 months you would have heard of the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic system in Iceland (a.k.a. Eyjafjöll volcano) in April 2010. The media covered the event mainly due to the considerable disruption of civil and military air…

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