I need a new blog.

WIKI:

2D:4D digit ratio

The best, non-invasive, marker of prenatal hormone exposure is the ratio of the second and fourth finger lengths (2D:4D ratio), a known sexually dimorphic measure (males showing lower ratios than females). Patients with androgen over-exposure (such as in congenital adrenal hyperplasia) show lower 2D:4D ratios, providing evidence linking prenatal androgen exposure as key to this feature. Additionally, the 2D:4D ratio has been shown to be affected by variation in the androgen receptor gene. The ratio of testosterone to estrogen in amniotic fluid has also been found to be negatively correlated with the 2D:4D ratio.

Independent studies indicate that homosexual women have masculinized (lower) ratios and homosexual men show either hyper-masculinized or feminized ratios. These findings reinforce the prenatal androgen model - abnormal prenatal hormone exposure is related to the development of human homosexuality.


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Fraternal birth order effect

Studies show that homosexual men have higher numbers of older male siblings. This finding led to the development of the fraternal birth order effect theory of homosexuality, stating that a mother becomes progressively immunized to successive male children, leading to increased chances of homosexuality in later male children. The mechanism involves the mother producing increasing anti-male antibodies to male-specific antigens expressed in male fetuses. These antibodies are thought to block the full masculinization of the fetal brain by “binding to and inactivating male-specific molecules located on the surface of fetal brain cells” thus preventing the morphogenesis of masculinized sexual preferences. Estimations indicate that there is a 33% increase in chances of homosexuality in a male child with each older male sibling. A BBC study reported that the fraternal birth order effect does not apply to left-handed homosexual males. Support for this theory is given by data indicating that the effect holds true only for biological brothers and the chances of male homosexuality is not increased by the number of older stepbrothers or adoptive siblings. This theory does not apply to the development of female homosexuality.


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Developmental instability and handedness

The chances of being left-handed are increased in homosexual populations. Homosexual men have an approximate 34% odds ratio of being non-right-handed while lesbian women have 91% odds of being so, both compared to heterosexual populations. It has been proposed that non-right-handedness (including ambidexterity) is related to homosexuality through developmental instability. Developmental instability refers to the level of vulnerability to environmental and genetic stresses and perturbations during development.


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Response to visual sexual stimuli

A recent functional magnetic resonance imaging study has demonstrated that upon viewing of both heterosexual and homosexual erotic visual stimuli, only those images corresponding to the subject’s sexual orientation produced hypothalamic activation patterns associated with sexual arousal. The response of heterosexuals viewing heterosexual adult videos showed the same pattern of sexual arousing neural processing as homosexuals viewing same-sex adult videos, while the viewing of the opposite orientation’s images did not elicit the same response.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_and_sexual_orientation

It's funny,
Seeing your 'ily's in unexpected places,
Whilst residing in the
Unfavourable class i'm doomed to.

I snuck onto my
Old phone that my dad was using,
And spent
Hours transferring all your textes to me
Onto paper.
Three full pages;
..3am

Its as if,
Monday knew that

this

would happen.

I won't
forget
that time.

1st April- Public Talk: Power and Strangeness of the Quantum by Professor Serge Haroche at Shaw Foundation Alumni House

There's gonna be a talk on quantum physics on wednesday at NUS!!

I'm dying to go.

It's 7pm and light dinner will be served,

And know its pointless asking, but who wants to come??

ANYONE would be great (because i know no one would)

please? please? please?



please?



Sighhhhhhhh







I'm gonna crash it.

hahahahahahaha

crashing a lecture


hahahahahaahahahahhahaahaha

From The Matrix:


Agent Smith:

I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.


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Makes alot of sense, doesn't it?

[Clearing out folders, I found this.] [From a chain mail:]


There was a blind girl who hated
>>herself just because she's
>>blind.
>>
>>She hated everyone, except her loving
>>boyfriend. He's always there for her.
>>
>>She said that if she could only see
>>the world, she
would marry her
>>boyfriend.
>>
>>One day, someone donated a pair of
>>eyes to her and she could see
>>everything, including her boyfriend.
>>
>>Her boyfriend asked her, "now that you
>>can see the world, will you
>>marry me?" The girl was shocked when
>>she saw that her boyfriend was blind
>>too, and refused to marry him.
>>
>>Her boyfriend walked away in tears,
>>and later wrote a letter to her
>>saying.
>>"Just take care of my eyes dear."