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The CDC wants you to know that anal sex has gotten really popular among heterosexuals

According to the National Survey of Family Growth, which surveyed thousands of people between the ages of 15 and 44 in 2006-2008, anal sex is really popular with heterosexuals. 44 percent of straight men report having anal sex at least once in their lives, and 36 percent of straight women do too. Though more straight men than women were enjoying anal sex, women were enjoying gay sex more. Twice as many women (12%) reported having homosexual sex at least once in their lifetimes compared with men (5.8%).

File this research under stuff we already know, duh.

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The decline of the serial killer.

Serial killers just aren’t the sensation they used to be. They haven’t disappeared, of course.
But the number of serial murders seems to be dwindling, as does the public’s fascination with them. “It does seem the golden age of serial murderers is probably past,” says Harold Schechter, a professor at Queens College of the City University of New York who studies crime.
As the raw numbers have declined, the media have paid less attention, too. Sure, you’ve still got the occasional Beltway sniper or Grim Sleeper who terrorizes a community. But nothing in the last decade has captured the popular imagination like the sex-addled psychopaths of the ’70s and ’80s, such as Ted Bundy (feigned injuries to win sympathy before killing women; about 30 victims), John Wayne Gacy (stored bodies in his ceiling crawlspace; 33 victims), or Jeffrey Dahmer (kept body parts in his closet and freezer; 17 victims). These crimes caused media frenzies in part because of the way they tapped into the obsessions and fears of the time: Bundy, a golden boy who worked on Nelson Rockefeller’s presidential campaign in Seattle, seemed to represent the evil lurking beneath America’s cheery exterior. Gacy, who dressed up as a clown and preyed on teenage boys, was every parent’s nightmare.

Very intriguing thought. There does seem to be declining numbers of serial killers, but more importantly, or at least more interestingly, there does seem to be less fascination with serial killers as a collective whole.
We’ve seen them before. Yes, they might differ in their modus operandi a little, but essentially we have seen or heard of everything out there. And anything we haven’t seen done by an individual in real life, we see in the movies or on television shows.
Are terrorists currently the new sensationalized serial killers from the 70s and 80s? Probably so. What the real question may be, what comes next?

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Greg Dunn paints neurons for a living (and also is working on his doctorate in neuroscience from Penn, no big deal). His affinity for asian-inspired art and passion for neuroscience led him to create these wonderful images.

I reblogged a few of these a while back, but I found these with better quality and wanted to highlight my favorite ones.

Can I have these in my home?

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High IQ linked to drug use

The “Just Say No” generation was often told by parents and teachers that intelligent people didn’t use drugs. Turns out, the adults may have been wrong.
A new British study finds children with high IQs are more likely to use drugs as adults than people who score low on IQ tests as children.
Researchers discovered men with high childhood IQs were up to two times more likely to use illegal drugs than their lower-scoring counterparts. Girls with high IQs were up to three times more likely to use drugs as adults.
“We suspect they may be more open to new experiences and are more sensation seeking.”

Hmmmmm…
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Mothers and children in portraits by Madame Vigee Le Brun.

More about Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

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