A.E.Brain

Strife. In Arabic, "Fitna". Here's a link to a film that is getting progressively more difficult to find on the Net, and indee...

Looking at this graph, I wonder what's more significant: the overall picture showing the societal discrimination against women in academ...

This time, it's about Male Pregnancy. At StopTheACLU , and Darwin Central (one of my regular haunts as a scientifically literate conser...

I've just come back from a pre-screening of In the Shadow of the Moon , the story of the Apollo astronauts. Present were a motley band f...

Since I'm supposed to be in " a bottomless pit of depravity ", dragging innocent victims along with me, I better give some pra...

Some people who I've never met don't like me. Really don't like me. The Coming Nightmare of a “Transsexual Rights and Hate Crim...

It's not often I go into gales of helpless laughter. But this one.... well, read on. From PZ Myers at Pharyngula : There is a rich, deep...

Tom Lehrer's song The Elements . An Animated movie.

The underside of the Space Shuttle is coated with black tiles, rather than the white ones on top. Now this sign may be due to some brain-dea...

Seen via ImpactED Nurse , one of the most inspirational speeches I know of. What happens when a Neuroanatomist realises she's having a...

Some quotes from the bad old days of 50 years ago: After the lynching of two black children in Alabama and Mississippi, a Grand Dragon of th...

Analytic vs Synthetic, Artificial vs Natural, Designed or Emergent.... There are two basic ways of making a system to do something. In one, ...

Humans have rights. The right to privacy, for example. The right, absent evidence that they would harm their children, to see those children...

My half century. I wondered when I was 10 what I'd be doing when I was 50 years old. 2008 seemed so far off in 1968. Oddly enough, my pr...

Being a parent is an awesome responsibility. Being a parent is hard. But for those of us who are Intersexed or Transsexual, it's often b...

But only when I was really, really tired.

From the much-misquoted Dr Milton Diamond, Biased-Interaction theory of psychosexual development: "how does one know if one is male or ...

A World Map showing them. Updated every 5 minutes or so.

My parents are the couple in the lower left of the screen at 01:28, with my mother laughing her head off at 01:29-01:30. My sister is the te...

At Dakota Voice .