Tag: eggs

• The Feminist Egg

  Once upon a time, I suppose that one of the characteristics of Age was its hubris. After a certain age, it was easy to dismiss most new things as mere variations on time-tested themes –additions, clever perhaps, intriguing even, but still accretions. Ecclesiastes lived in old minds: The thing that hath been, it is that which shall […]

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  May 9, 2018

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  Age, androcentrism, cryptic female choice, Darwin, Ecclesiastes, eggs, Emily Martin, evolution, female, gender divide, Hamlet, Kahlil Gibran, Life, Mendel, new things, New York University, Quanta Magazine, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Truth, William Eberhard

• Scrambled Eggs

  Great! Test tube mothers now, is it? Not enough to eliminate the Fallopian tube, or the on-egg dating site where potential sperm candidates meet, are scrutinized, profiles scanned and competition held for first across the zona (pellucida, that is) … Oh no, now we have to eliminate the entire coffee shop. What is happening out […]

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  January 18, 2017

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  BBC news, DNA, Eden, eggs, Miasma Theory, needs, niche product, Phlogiston, procreation, reproduction-lite, sperm, stem cells, unintended consequences, wants, women’s health