In a word: more.
This Week In Sex is back, baby. We know we left you to forage for intersmut for months all by yourselves, and we feel really bad about that. Though our inboxes are overflowing with news of industrious hot teens doing a lot of creative new craft projects, we realize you may not be so lucky. So just in case this happens again, here are some inspirational nuggets about going it alone.
Magic dragon. The media got their knickers in a snit about the Komodo dragon who was set to drop a load of virgin births around Christmas, but it was a big let down, timing-wise. The eggs are due to hatch in January, so look for some kind of President's Day themed stories. For us parthenogenesis in theory and practice is always pretty exciting, so you go, Komodo.
Wii heart vibrators. It was only a matter of time. And the time was about 30 seconds. The Wii vibrator. If you're more analog, and don't need words in English, check out the old timey vibrators at fogonazoz.
Mekka love. We have been enjoying having a personal manservant lately (seriously, we have a lot of catching up to do). Can't argue with a girl and her personal robot. Cause if you do, that personal robot may rise up and take over the world, one shoe at a time.
Will you still feed me when I'm 67? World's oldest mother gives birth at 67--no big deal. But the world's oldest mother gives birth via C-section to twins following in vitro fertilization--that shows determination.
Conceptual math. One mom + two wombs = triplets.
looks like the 'wiibrator' link is broken.
Posted by: k | January 02, 2007 at 12:25 PM
I'd seen the parthenogenesis story a few days back. It's kind of fascinating. There is a species of gecko on a Pacific island that reproduces excusively cloning itself. I was so into the taxonomy of Squamata (BTW Squamata is the superorder of reptiles which includes lizards, snakes and amphisbaneans) when I was a kid. Snakes and amphisbaneans (sp) each have one atrophied lung, one the left the other the right. I used to know which was which. In the ensuing years taxonomy has changed. They now use the term 'clade' to refer to a group, regardless of size, with a common ancestor. This term used to be exclusive to Virology. Varanids, the monitors, of which the Komodo dragon is a member are part of what they call the 'poison clade' within Squamata. I wonder if they are going to say the aforementioned gecko and the Komodo are part of a 'parthogenesis clade?'
I had a whole family tree for these reptiles all worked out, til the basement flooded in that house. Varanids are likely pretty close to the roots of the tree so it's possible that a hypothetic parthogenesis clade. Probably tough to plot back through the fossil record for something like this. Also tough to get to sleep when you accidentally took dayquil.
Posted by: bartleby | January 03, 2007 at 12:13 AM
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Posted by: lee | January 03, 2007 at 08:32 AM
That should be Venom Clade not Poison Clade and it should be Virii not Viruses.
Posted by: bartleby | January 03, 2007 at 04:58 PM
So. Happy. To have you and TWIS back.
Posted by: jtm | January 03, 2007 at 05:44 PM