Morning News Run
How Coffee Raises Cholesterol - Science Daily
Cafestol, a compound found in coffee, elevates cholesterol by hijacking a receptor in an intestinal pathway critical to its regulation, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears in the July issue of the journal Molecular Endocrinology.
Study: Prehistoric Man Had Sex for Fun - FOX News
He may have come down from the trees, but prehistoric man did not stop swinging. New research into Stone Age humans has argued that, far from having intercourse simply to reproduce, they had sex for fun. Practices ranging from bondage to group sex, transvestism and the use of sex toys were widespread in primitive societies as a way of building up cultural ties.
Genetic Analysis Helps Track TB Infection Chain - NPR (Audio)
CDC scientists tracing ordinary tuberculosis cases use genetic analysis to hunt for a chain of transmission that they might not catch through traditional shoe-leather epidemiology.
River blindness resistance fears - BBC
The parasitic worm that causes river blindness may be developing resistance to the drug used to treat it, research has suggested. Resistance could lead to breakouts of the infection in communities where it has been brought under control, a Canadian study in the Lancet reports.
Ph.D. Candidate Presents Thesis in Her Underwear - WIRED
Students interested in how technology and sexuality fit together — who take technology’s role in sexual development for granted — are naturally drawn to fields like interactive telecommunications, human-computer interaction and affective computing. It’s a multidisciplinary movement that inspires collaboration among engineers, artists, psychologists and sociologists — and in these studies, sex comes first. Tech is merely a catalyst.
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