I'm going to get this laminated and carry it around in my wallet.

Never let anyone say that scientists don't have a sense of humor.

I posted this to someone else below, but I'm pretty sure this is the original study. It's from 2013 so I'm not sure why it's suddenly being picked up again.

I was so baffled that I forced a friend to look to make sure I wasn't losing my mind. This was a weird game of telephone where the Daily Mail did a random interview —> telegraph picked it up as a new study —> Jez reported on the telegraph.

I just spent a solid five minutes looking for it with no success. None of the articles even mention what journal it was published in and Khalali doesn't have anything on Pubmed since 2014.

By offering things like chemistry and calculus, they're already past the original mission. No one in their right mind would suggest that the women's college of the 19th century would persist — nor should it.

I mean, obviously the nature of the campus will change. You may be losing part of the initial mission by admitting men, but you can still maintain the overall values.

Your comment, to me, implied that applications would be down across the board. Kiss is the head of The women's college coalition so I took her comments to mean numbers were up across institutions, not just at her specific school. College is a product and women's colleges are, apparently, something that people are…

(I hoped you did — that's how I read it. Then the dramatic imbalance between recs on my stunningly pithy and incisive comment and your pitch perfect GIF made me think maybe I was wrong. Crisis averted, nothing to see her. Matriarchy or bust)

(I just spent like 5 minutes trying to decide if this meant you knew I was being sarcastic or not. In the interest of my own sanity, I'll clarify that I was mocking him.)

I think one of the points of this piece was that they're not turning from their original missions — they're changing and evolving to stay true to that while still remaining relevant in the 21st century.

That's a great point and a neglected view point here. You should write an article.

I think some of the criticisms Women's Colleges come up against have a point about their drawbacks, but most of them go hand in hand with their strengths. They were entirely off my radar until this Sweet Briar debacle —- I appreciate this all being laid out so that I understand what the hell is going on. It seems…

I was just going to say this whole thing is very Orphan Black. It is disturbing. I bet there is good money to be had starting a law firm focusing on this stuff.

I assume that when they develop those capabilities it will be a separate kind of check box. Do you want to donate your body? Do you want to donate your DNA? It's technically the same but there's a world of difference.

Sex dolls built to specifications like little kids do with personalized American Girl dolls.

Well, it wouldn't be your body. It would be completely computer generated and designed. You could pop like 20 abnormalities into one print out — heart, limb, brain, intestinal, circulatory. No need to replicate a real life person. Go nuts.

I'm a little bit obsessed with 3D printing and just literally bounced in my chair about this. This truly inspirational singer of painfully awful songs did make me think — if you could print a human body with rare defects for surgeons and doctors to learn on an abnormal anatomy? That would be incredible. People…

Don't be silly. To be honest I spend so much time in the comment section here that I've started to tune out most all caps — I didn't even register it as yelling.