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Your Future Will Be Filled with Promiscuous Friends

Reality television, consumed with liberal doses of MySpace and Facebook, will make friendships of the future far more promiscuous. So says a newly-released study about people who invest a lot of time in creating profiles of themselves online (which is increasingly all of us). The authors of the study have discovered an intriguing trend in the way people are re-define "friendship" after hanging out a lot online. The good news is that current trends all point to more casual sex for people who "friend" each other online. More »

3:35 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Annalee Newitz
3,079 views, 40 comments

Latest by wookie2: @The Blow Leprechaun: You're more like the old generation of Internet netizens, while myspace/facebook/et al is the "new" generation. I didn't think that there would be a well-defined Generation 1/ Generation 2 gap in online life, but I think more »

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Why All Female Superheroes Look the Same

This chart compares the body mass index (BMI) of superheroes in Marvel comics with those of typical American women and men. Researchers Karen Healey and Terry Johnson used physical stats from Marvel's Web site to show that the vast majority of female superheroes are underweight, though the males are mostly normal. Just to remind you, in the BMI scale, below 18.5 is underweight, 18.5-24.9 is normal, and over 25 is overweight. Healey's analysis of what this means is hilarious and thought-provoking. More »

1:15 PM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Annalee Newitz
10,435 views, 44 comments

Latest by Dr-Gordon-Patzer: Annalee, My compliments to you for a great post highlighting the same narrow range of looks for female superheroes that then serve to shape the perspectives, ideas, and ideals, of their fans. Of course, another female superhero who exerts equal or even more »