Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

Social Psychology Quarterly
March 2010 vol. 73 no. 1 33-57

Satoshi Kanazawa

Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom

Abstract

The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical question in behavioral and social sciences. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, derived from the Savanna Principle and a theory of the evolution of general intelligence, suggests that more intelligent individuals may be more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values and preferences (such as liberalism and atheism and, for men, sexual exclusivity) than less intelligent individuals, but that general intelligence may have no effect on the acquisition and espousal of evolutionarily familiar values (for children, marriage, family, and friends). The analyses of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Study 1) and the General Social Surveys (Study 2) show that adolescent and adult intelligence significantly increases adult liberalism, atheism, and men’s (but not women’s) value on sexual exclusivity.

http://spq.sagepub.com/content/73/1/33

When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection

Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress,
eds. J.M. Tchuenche and C. Chiyaka,
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
pp. 133-150, 2009

Philip Munz [1], Ioan Hudea [1], Joe Imad [2], Robert J. Smith? [3]

[1] School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[2] Department of Mathematics, The University of Ottawa, 585 King Edward Ave, Ottawa ON K1N 6N5, Canada
[2] Department of Mathematics and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Ottawa, 585 King Edward Ave, Ottawa ON K1N 6N5, Canada

Abstract

Zombies are a popular figure in pop culture/entertainment and they are usually portrayed as being brought about through an outbreak or epidemic. Consequently, we model a zombie attack, using biological assumptions based on popular zombie movies. We introduce a basic model for zombie infection, determine equilibria and their stability, and illustrate the outcome with numerical solutions. We then refine the model to introduce a latent period of zombification, whereby humans are infected, but not infectious, before becoming undead. We then modify the model to include the effects of possible quarantine or a cure. Finally, we examine the impact of regular, impulsive reductions in the number of zombies and derive conditions under which eradication can occur. We show that only quick, aggressive attacks can stave off the doomsday scenario: the collapse of society as zombies overtake us all.

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Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time

PLoS One. 2009; 4(10): e7595.
Published online Oct 28, 2009. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007595

Min Tan [1,3], Gareth Jones [2], Guangjian Zhu [1], Jianping Ye [1,3], Tiyu Hong [1,3], Shanyi Zhou [3], Shuyi Zhang [4], and Libiao Zhang [1]

[1] Guangdong Entomological Institute, Guangzhou, China
[2] School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
[3] College of Life Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
[4] School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Oral sex is widely used in human foreplay, but rarely documented in other animals. Fellatio has been recorded in bonobos Pan paniscus, but even then functions largely as play behaviour among juvenile males. The short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus sphinx exhibits resource defence polygyny and one sexually active male often roosts with groups of females in tents made from leaves. Female bats often lick their mate's penis during dorsoventral copulation. The female lowers her head to lick the shaft or the base of the male's penis but does not lick the glans penis which has already penetrated the vagina. Males never withdrew their penis when it was licked by the mating partner. A positive relationship exists between the length of time that the female licked the male's penis during copulation and the duration of copulation. Furthermore, mating pairs spent significantly more time in copulation if the female licked her mate's penis than if fellatio was absent. Males also show postcopulatory genital grooming after intromission. At present, we do not know why genital licking occurs, and we present four non-mutually exclusive hypotheses that may explain the function of fellatio in C. sphinx.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0007595

The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology

The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology
Published September 4th 2009 by No Starch Press

Masaharu Takemura
Sakura, Becom Ltd., Becom Co., Ltd.

Rin and Ami have been skipping molecular biology class all semester, and Professor Moro has had enough-he's sentencing them to summer school on his private island. But they're in store for a special lesson. Using Dr. Moro's virtual reality machine to travel inside the human body, they'll get a close-up look at the fascinating world of molecular biology.

Join them in The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology, and learn all about DNA, RNA, proteins, amino acids, and more. Along the way, you'll see chemical reactions first-hand and meet entertaining characters like Enzyme Man and Drinkzilla, who show how the liver metabolizes alcohol.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6464275-the-manga-guide-to-molecular-biology

http://books.google.nl/books?id=3eIf_1sinSgC&printsec=frontcover

http://www.scribd.com/doc/18613038/The-Manga-Guide-to-Molecular-Biology-Excerpt