Archive for August 28th, 2006

Earlier this summer I acquired all ten seasons of Friends on DVD. I started with season 6 earlier this year, then kind of cascaded into the other nine. By the time I finished watching all of them several weeks ago, I was sick of it.
So, I’ve finally started over with season one, and I’m going [...]

Hippocrates was a pretty smart dude:
Folding fact #33
400 BC Hippocrates (460 - 377 BC) determined that the male contribution to a child’s heredity is carried in the semen. By analogy, he guessed there is a similar fluid in women, since children clearly receive traits from each in approximately equal proportion.
But Aristotle was a male chauvinist [...]