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Ah, neuroscience.
More exactly, neuroscience guest lecture by either a grad or a post-grad (not sure), on the class-chosen topic of sex and the brain.
I don't envy him. He's having to attempt to give this lecture, probably for some sort of credit, without offending anyone and without having looked up every single study referenced by the book. (because, of course, everyone including me tends to question sex studies a little more than other studies.)
But it's amusing. In that slightly painful sort of way, as he rushes through it hoping to avoid the tricky questions.
I'm being nice. I could be much worse. I feel for him, especially since I'll be rushing through a presentation on thursday. So I'm not asking all the questions I could be asking, or making all the comments I could be asking...cause the poor guy looks like he doesn't know a damn thing about interesting sexual behavior first hand. I mean really, some of the word choices are unfortunate. On a sex lecture, when discussing the problems with studying humans, *I* would avoid making the statement "Well, you can't put humans in cages."
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Well, I might avoid it. Alternatively I'd accidently make *many* statements like that and spend the presentation blushing, given that it's me and I have a tendency to make many accidental euphemisms. But I'd at least know what I was doing.
In other news, you get more brain space per nipple when lactating then when not lactating. The things we learn from science.
More exactly, neuroscience guest lecture by either a grad or a post-grad (not sure), on the class-chosen topic of sex and the brain.
I don't envy him. He's having to attempt to give this lecture, probably for some sort of credit, without offending anyone and without having looked up every single study referenced by the book. (because, of course, everyone including me tends to question sex studies a little more than other studies.)
But it's amusing. In that slightly painful sort of way, as he rushes through it hoping to avoid the tricky questions.
I'm being nice. I could be much worse. I feel for him, especially since I'll be rushing through a presentation on thursday. So I'm not asking all the questions I could be asking, or making all the comments I could be asking...cause the poor guy looks like he doesn't know a damn thing about interesting sexual behavior first hand. I mean really, some of the word choices are unfortunate. On a sex lecture, when discussing the problems with studying humans, *I* would avoid making the statement "Well, you can't put humans in cages."
...
Well, I might avoid it. Alternatively I'd accidently make *many* statements like that and spend the presentation blushing, given that it's me and I have a tendency to make many accidental euphemisms. But I'd at least know what I was doing.
In other news, you get more brain space per nipple when lactating then when not lactating. The things we learn from science.