This is fantastic! Thank you for the source and the book list. I have no problems talking about puberty and sex, but knowing the age appropriate information and how to talk about it in a non-academic sense is very helpful.

Oh dear! Famine's plan from Good Omens is coming true. It's like when Onion articles predate real events.

That's truly awful, but you are correct that complaining about the faculty is often worse than enduring enough to finish. The terrible truth about academics is that grad students have only the protection offered to them by their department, program or union, if it exists.

Many biomedical (toxicology, cancer research, neuroscience) graduate programs - like the one from which I received my PhD - are housed in medical schools, as opposed to a traditional four year university. The graduate students are not medical students, but they are at a school of medicine.

We had pizza while playing on the shore of a lake tonight. I can't imagine leaving BabyPond in the car. She's getting extra snuggles in bed while we listen to a thunderstorm.

Basic studies conducted only in male animals absolutely influences these results. And the tricky thing is that both the chromosomal sex and hormones play a role in the biological differences in drug metabolism.

One of the biggest biological sex differences is in the liver, so women have fundamentally different meta blossoms based on different expressions of liver enzymes. This is especially important for drugs taken orally as the differences in metabolism alter how the drugs are processed and used by the body.