Glob-a-log

(Close but no cigar…)

I’ve said it many times but I don’t mind saying it again: Science is so much fun. It truly is the ultimate high – and there’s many a scientist who looks at his or her microscope, telescope, Bunsen burner or Hadron Collider in the same way as a vampire who’d landed a job as P.E. teacher would at his class of Catholic high school girls.

It’s such a broad selection of highs too: From studying the sex lives of monkfish to the wide-eyed pyrotechnics of the latest generation of hydrogen bombs. It’s all good – though sex is the best, of course, as the following article shows.

I mean, I would not have minded at all to do field work and help collect some of the data for this latest study by the University of Florence:

“Women who drink red wine enjoy better sex lives, a study from the University of Florence in Italy has suggested. A study among Tuscan women discovered that one or two glasses a day could lead to a more fulfilling life in the bedroom. Experts from the university questioned 800 women between 18 and 50.”

You know that old song, ‘Home on the Ranch’? Yup, that one:

“Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day”

So, far be it from me to utter such discouraging words to these researchers. If it were up to me all scientists could play with deer and antelope as much as they could stand, under the bluest sky Hank Williams could paint…

… but I do have one small question for them:

‘Women who drink red wine enjoy better sex lives’? Yes, I dare say – but better compared to what precisely?

As the following article about booze and sex shows, it’s not all that hard to come out on top, when comparing your own wine-sipping crowd to some of our more socially challenged planet dwellers:

“A 26-year old Greek woman has become an overnight national hero after setting fire to the genitals of a 23-year old drunken Briton who allegedly tried to sexually assault her in a crowded bar.”

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