Recently, because of "Women's Equality Day," I have seen some questions about matriarchal societies. Do they even exist? The Dutch naturalist Frans de Waal believes they do: He cites our close relatives, the bonobos, as an example. Talking about our oversexed cousins is always fun. But people are starting to challenge de Waal's research. There [...]
Also on the subject of "Women's Equality Day": There are three things I learned online in the past year. 1) Women like sex. (2) Old people have sex (in the paper last week); and (3) Men are nicer than we think. Nurturing, for example. My husband gave me a poem that had been published in [...]
Yesterday was "Women's Equality Day," if you happened to miss it. I believe it commemorates the day women were given the vote. Anyway, my boss here told me that people are reading my blog, even if they're too timid to speak up. So I was going to write a lot of stuff yesterday, basically do [...]
I have been communicating with a friend I have never met but who I have known since Bill was alive. We met on one of the listserves, the Circle, a list heavily populated by women dealing with the realities of prostate cancer. Her husband was diagnosed 10 years ago and is reaching the end of [...]
The Annals of Internal Medicine had an interesting editorial about the use of supplements to prevent cancer and other diseases. Click here for the original editorial. There was an interesting response to the editorial. Click here for the response. Since it is obvious that the experts take such contradictory stances, patients who read the material [...]