Nerdy Science Blog

Women had no any rights few centuries ago.  Men were the laws.  Men treated women badly and treated them worse than animals.  Women were only babies and biological energies vessels to men.  This could be the problem of men after all.

Susan Fiske and colleaegues at Princeton University studied the male behaviour when they are looking at women in bikinis.  The researcher announced in annual meeting of American Association for Advancement of Science held at Chicago that the brain region that is associated with tool use lighted up when men were shown the photos of skimpily dressed women.  The researcher also found that when these men were shown sexually appealing photos, the brain part for human interaction had no activity.

The study was based on 21 heterosexual male volunteers.  Can this brain scan be a male homosexual detection?  Perhaps the researcher can look into it.

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Jen Palmares Meadows listed top women scientists in the history.

1. Hypatia of Alexandria (AD 350 and 370-415) – mathematics
2. Emilie Du Chatelet (1706-1749) – physics and mathematics
3. Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) – astronomy
4. Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze aka Madame Lavoisier (1758-1836) – chemistry
5. Mary Somerville (1780-1872) – mathematics and astronomy
6. Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852) – programmer
7. Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) – astronomy
8. Marie Curie (1867-1934) – chemistry and physics
9. Karen Horney (1885-1952) – psychology
10. Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992) – mathematics and computer science
11. Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909- ) – biology
12. Chien Shiung-Wu (1912-1997) – physics
13. Rosalind Franklin: (1920-1958) – biology
14. Jane Goodall (1934- ) – anthropology
15. Shirley Ann Jackson (1946-) – physics
16. Mae Carol Jemison (1956- ) – physics

Perhaps men and women should sit at separate place in the restaurant in the future like the conservative society in the past.

Scientists from UNSW, the University of Sydney and Massey University discovered that different diet can influence lifespan and reproductive success on males and females differently.  This finding is based on the long-term studies on Australian black field crickets.  It is found that high-carbohydrate and low protein diets can maximize lifespan of both males and females.  However males have maximum lifespan and greatest reproductive success with a diet ratio of carbohydrates to protein by 8:1, whereas females are 1:1.

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Anna Kushnir, PhD wrote a letter to wired science.

Why Are Senior Female Scientists So Heavily Outnumbered by Men?

Take my graduate school for example: My class was made up of eight people — seven women and one man, or 7 to 1. He was Snow White and we were the seven dwarves — each with a remarkably appropriate nickname. I was Grumpy, should you be curious to know.

Snow White and at least four of the dwarves have continued on to postdoctoral research jobs. That is a 4 to 3 ratio of women who went on to do a post-doc to those that chose alternate career paths.

Everything is adding up so far, right? Lots of women are around. Lots of science is being done. All is well.

The next set of numbers is slightly puzzling, however. That is the ratio of female to male professors in our department, at a well-respected academic institution, is 48 to 7 men to women.

Interesting reversal, isn’t it? We go from 7 to 1 in grad school to roughly 1 to 7 in professorships.

Perhaps the only way to solve this problem is made men pregnant.

John made a catchy comment, “Funny Anna thinks its fine for the grad program to be almost all women, but not okay for the senior professors to be mostly men.”

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Did your mother alwyas nag you and you can’t even spoke back? While you mom is nagging, your dad remains silent? This gives you the thinking that woman talks more than man? Dude, you are wrong, and it’s proven by researchers from univeristy of Texas.

In general, they found that women tend to talk more about relationships. Their everyday conversation is more studded with pronouns. Men tend to talk more about sports and gadgets, and their utterances include more numbers.

—— NPR: Study: Men Talk Just as Much as Women

Maybe after your mom finished, you may turn and kick your dog to release your anger, and the words you spoken to your dog might be as much as what your mom nagged you. Haha, just kidding.

Politicians are one good example of talkative men, they talked, mostly crap, and i guess more than their wives. But one thing i must tell the guys, women share things, so when you are telling your beloved one something, don’t expect her to keep it as secret, women share among women.

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