Interesting Links for 26-04-2013

[andrewducker]

• Each can of sugary drink per day increases your chances of diabetes by 22%
  (tags: diet diabetes sugar )
• Kari Sperring - Why I started #Womentoread
  (tags: fiction writing women )
• Suicide: Probably not something you want to use to advertise your cars.
  (tags: epicwtf advertising suicide )
• BT (and TalkTalk) manage to exceed their usual appalling

Comments

[bart_calendar]

They had to do a study on female randiness?

I would think that anyone who has ever dated a woman has noticed that they are far hornier when they are ovulating.

[andrewducker]

There are lots of things that everyone has noticed that turn out to be false, or more complicated than that. Checking whether it's actually true, and what the details are is definitely worth it.

Also, finding out what the different chemicals do, and nailing down how it works means you can then work towards help people who have problems with it

[bart_calendar]

But... isn't this essentially proving something that has been observed and proved in all mammals? And, like, completely sensible given nature's reason for creating pink parts?

[andrewducker]

Have we previously proven that "Estrogen was having a positive effect, but with a two-day lag. Progesterone was having a persistent negative effect, both for current day, day before, and two days earlier." across all mammals? I wasn't aware of that.

[bart_calendar]

Fair enough. I just wish the article had led with that rather than leading with "hey, if you are female and really horny, it probably means it's your fertile time of the month."

I'm all for finding out how things work, just against leading a journalism piece with "hey, female mammals go into heat when they are fertile."

[andrewducker]

Aah, yes. The headline "Women's sexual urges linked to their menstrual cycle" isn't news to anyone (although the variations in what women tend to be attracted to are fascinating) - it's the details that are new research.

[bart_calendar]

This is just the grumpy former journalist in me being annoyed at the buried lead.

[steer]

Human sexuality is very different to typical mammalian sexuality -- particularly in that regard. Most mammals ONLY have sex when the female is capable of conceiving.

[innerbrat]

Anyone who has ever dated a woman may or may not know when that particular woman was most horny, but that is it.