- Nigerian skeptic Leo Igwe held on trumped up charges.
- Engineering class shows girls male-dominated field. (From Chasmosaur.)
- Six arrested in Indonesia for ‘sexy dancing.’ (From Steve. Who was not one of the six. As far as we know.)
- Volunteers wanted to photograph themselves with Tree of Life temporary tattoos for next month’s Darwin Day.
- XKCD on the G-spot controversy. (From just about everyone.)
Re: The XKCD comic-
I hate to sound like a typical guy, but I bet I was the first one to find it…
No, no one’s ever accused me of that.
@Steve: Blame it on evolution.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236321/Embarrassing-dad-dance-routine-evolution.html
(RE: sexy dancing) I think one of the most important areas we need to make progress in as a society is general opposition to theocracy. More than encouraging democracy, I think the importance of secular government needs to be stated clearly and at any opportunity by those with influence (including politicians and moderate religious leaders). Unfortunately that means pissing off christians, muslims and jews, and most politicians don’t want to do that; the irony being that thocracy is bad for religion and government.
It seems that Leo’s been released:
http://www.thinkhumanism.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3894&p=70510#p70510
@Zapski:
That article doesn’t make much sense. The older males would have no evolutionary incentive to signal that they are old in that way. Moreover, this seems to be assuming that young females will always have an evolutionary incentive not to procreate with older males, which in many societies won’t be the case.
@Joshua Zelinsky: Oh I agree. I just think it’s amusing to have that excuse. Now I can tell The Girl that my total klutziness when dancing is due to Scienceâ„¢