Tornadoes, Gene Patents, Mermaids, and Brains

Published: June 24, 2013, 2:52 p.m.

b"Welcome to Double X Science for June 22, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Jeff Perkel, tech editor.\\n\\nOur topics cover posts since the end of May:\\n\\tEarly Puberty Among Adoptees by Health Editor Tara Haelle \\nhttp://www.doublexscience.org/adoptees-early-puberty-rates/\\nCalculating Vaccine Risk by Contributor Alison Hagood \\nhttp://www.doublexscience.org/calculating-vaccine-risk/\\nArousal during rape by Contributor Jenny Morber \\nhttp://www.doublexscience.org/arousal-during-rape/\\nFive Reasons Mermaids are Impossible by Editor-in-Chief Emily Willingham \\nhttp://www.doublexscience.org/five-reasons-mermaids-are-impossible/\\nOn Pacifiers and Breastfeeding by Health Editor Tara Haelle \\nhttp://www.doublexscience.org/of-pacifiers-and-breastfeeding/ \\nChasing Tornadoes is an Old Habit by Tech Editor Jeffrey Perkel \\nhttp://www.doublexscience.org/storm-chasers-colonial-edition/\\nSizing Up the Mother in Me by Contributor Joss Fong \\nhttp://www.doublexscience.org/sizing-up-the-mother-in-me/\\nHe found out he has ovaries by Editor-in-chief Emily Willingham \\nhttp://www.doublexscience.org/he-found-out-he-has-ovaries/\\nSCOTUS ruling means cheaper genetic testing by science ed editor Chris Gunter \\nhttp://www.doublexscience.org/myriad-genetics-ruling/\\n\\tShark Clones: A Story of Parthenogenesis \\n\\thttp://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/06/shark-clones-story-of-parthenogenesis.html\\n\\tDr. Irene Helen Battle\\n\\thttp://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/06/dr-helen-irene-battle.html\\n\\n\\n\\news of the week was about the Big Brain Project.\\nhttp://www.nature.com/news/whole-human-brain-mapped-in-3d-1.13245?WT.mc_id=PIN_NatureNews\\n\\n\\nThank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people."