It makes me feel good, as I wander off to read some science blogs.

That was the case this evening, and thank god for it or I’d never have seen The Intersection’s piece on Evolutionary psychology: the adaptive significance of semen flavor. I learned, via Jerry A. Coyne, Ph.D, a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, that semen tastes bad, it just does, and despite his initial confusion, as an evolutionary psychologist, and a man I’m sure, as to why nature hadn’t compensated the taste with some added sugars, making it at least tolerable, he finally came up with the truth.

Semen just tastes bad.

And guess what?

It tastes bad because it belongs in the vagina not the mouth, and until women vomit up their offspring the taste isn’t going to get any better.

Fact is if this stuff was meant to be swallowed nature would have made it taste like a root beer float, or at the very least a gin and tonic.

Thank you Professor.

Something light, because I know how some of you dislike reading about Republicans, Democrats, and even Libertarians.

I know, if you actually think about it it’s not light, but it’s not politics. Yet.

Singularity, no it doesn’t mean you don’t date, and the only time I spent delving into the term was in a philosophy class, but Hrafn Thorri Thórisson a blogger at Think Artificial, and student of Computer Science at Reykjavik University, and member of RU’s Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents (CADIA), and the founder of Iceland’s first and only A.I. association, the Icelandic Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) posted this in a 9rules note, and I thought I’d share it with you

If you didn’t attend the last Transhumanist conference you just may have missed it.

Enjoy.

Singularity
Small list
The Techno-Rapture.
Transtopia
SIAI
Technological singularity

I’ll catch up with you all this weekend.