I don't wash my face either, if 'wash' means using a soap or cleanser. I do splash water on it in the morning and whenever I take a shower but the only reason I would use a cleanser is if I put on sunscreen (happens maybe 1x/week) or makeup (maybe 1x/year).

You know, when I was young I used to retort but then when I was 16 and some douche on a bike rode by and made a gross comment about my body. I gave the finger to his retreating back and he turned around, got off his bike, grabbed my arm, and demanded I apologize. There was nobody else around. I was terrified. I…

70 is a huge sample for an fMRI study. Those scans are expensive and time-consuming and there are tons of studies with n<10 out there.

I don't think this is right, there was a big study in Pediatrics last year and the authors spoke on NPR. They crunched the numbers and found rates of childhood obesity insufficient to account for the decrease in age at puberty. Will dig out ref later if asked.

You might have the causality reversed. Not that she didn't like you because you didn't pay, but that she chose to pay because she already knew she didn't like you.

So I think the high IQ/reduced fertility came from a study of a Scottish cohort born in the 30s or thereabouts, and there was a clear 'marriage penalty' with increasing IQ.

Huh? You don't get ringworm (tinea) from walking barefoot outside. It's a fungal infection. Usually you would get it from poor hygiene and/or exposure to someone else who has it.

We tried this (see my comment above). Only one person did it. Most of the rest of them gave us cash.

We just asked that people give nothing. And meant it. We had plenty of shit already and personally I am constantly trying to reduce the amount of shit in my life. We even suggested they could donate to a charity of their choosing whatever they would have spent on the gift. (Only one person did this.)

Well I'm old and married now so it's moot. That said, profiles of young women with photos just get a deluge of mail from assholes who didn't read a word before firing off their cannons, and having to sort through all that crap is such a big job that you're just as likely to miss the diamond in the rough from sheer…

I'm not sure this is limited to creative fields. I'm a physician and I get asked for free medical advice all the time. Often questions that are way out of my field and that I would not be able to answer without actually doing, y'know, an exam and H&P. (Meanwhile, malpractice doesn't cover cocktail party inquiries.)

Shit, did they get rid of COTW with the new format? Because this one needs to be teleported back to receive its due homage.

Absolutely. It's been a long time (I was online dating in the mid 00s) but I actually intentionally left photos out of my profiles to narrow down the response rate. (I'm reasonably conventionally attractive, was more so then, and I sent photos on request.) I got a small number of responses - most of them very…

To be fair, I actually find the pace of modern scientific discovery astounding.

Sorry, not trying to pick on you - it's just that this 'depression is a chemical imbalance' thing drives me insane. It's inaccurate, grossly oversimplified, and essentially meaningless if you know anything about how the brain works. And yet there is a huge proportion of the population that wants to equate 'chemical…

Excellent. Can we push this comment to the top everybody? :)

Depression is 'a chemical thing' in the sense that *everything* is 'a chemical thing.' Happiness is 'a chemical thing.' Hunger is 'a chemical thing.' Stress is 'a chemical thing.' Saying that depression is 'a chemical thing' does not differentiate it in any way from other states of being.

Good Lord, did anybody at Jezebel actually read the article? Even the abstract maybe? It's about visualization of the crystal structure of the active domain of the receptor in question. Nothing about its functions in the body (which are legion). I mean, it's a great advance for protein structure geekery, but the…

I don't think it actually is higher in protein than grains, it's just that it has all the essential amino acids together (usually found only in animal protein, I think soy is the other plant source that has all essential AAs). But you can get them all by eating rice+beans together so I'm not sure what the big deal is.

CS scars in particular can heal really weirdly because of the huge change in the surface area of the abdominal skin over the post-delivery period. Scar tissue isn't flexible like unscarred skin and you can end up with permanent puckering or a pouchy overhang above or below the scar.