3 hours of wiki

Napped at 6.
woke up at 7.30
Dinner at 7.30
turned on the comp at 8.
By 8.30, finish checking inbox.
By 8.45, finished printing necessary stuff
By 9, could not think of an essay to write in response to one of my mail. decided to do another day. (guiding principle: "you cant force an essay, you invite it onto your paper." You must seduce it, tempt it and slowly translate your ideas into prose. Have you seen the Thai ladies making silk? They slowly pull out the silk from the cocoons. Similarly, for words too.)
By 9.15, finished bowl of (extremely sour) fruits.
By 9.30, sent out a couple of emails.
By 10, decided to head for my fav site, wiki.org

Here are some interesting stuff from wiki.org:
-Haneda Airport in Tokyo is 4th busiest in the world, despite serving only 2 (yes, read:2) international locations). Comparatively, Changi is 23. Sian, still long way to go to the top.

-"Homo" in homo sapien means "man". "Homo" in "homosexual" means "same". Like homogenous. Why? Because homo is both Greek and Latin. In the 2 languages, it shares different meanings.

- "The lives of many historical figures including Socrates, Alexander the Great, Lord Byron, Edward II, Hadrian, Julius Caesar, Michelangelo, Donatello and Christopher Marlowe included or were centered upon love and sexual relationships with people of their own sex. Terms such as gay or bisexual have been applied to them" (from wiki). Alexander the Great, ruthless conqueror, was gay? Julius Caesar (et tu brute?), unifer of Rome, was gay? Socrates, mentor of Plato, was gay? Donatello (not the turtle), ingenius artist, was gay? Michelango (not the turtle), famous sulptor, was gay?

- Physiological differences in gay men and lesbians:
Recent studies have found notable differences between the physiology of gay people and straight people. There is evidence that:


-The functioning of the inner ear and the central auditory system in lesbians and bisexual women are more like the functional properties found in men than in straight women (the researchers argued this finding was consistent with the prenatal hormonal theory of sexual orientation.[84]
-The startle response (eyeblink following a loud sound) is similarly masculinized in lesbians and bisexual women.[85]
-Three regions of the brain (medial prefrontal cortex, left hippocampus, and right amygdala) are more active in gay men than straight men when exposed to sexually arousing material.[86]
-Gay and straight people emit different armpit odors.[87]
-Gay men have, on an average, slightly longer and thicker penises than straight men.[91]
-Finger length ratios between the index and ring fingers may be different between straight and lesbian women.[92][93][84][94][95][96]

and more:

Cognitive differences in gay men and lesbians
Likewise, recent studies have found notable differences between the cognitive features of gay people and straight people. There is evidence that:
Gay men and lesbians are significantly more likely to be left-handed or ambidextrous than straight men and women;[97][98][99] Simon LeVay argues that because "[h]and preference is observable before birth[100]... [t]he observation of increased non-right-handness in gay people is therefore consistent with the idea that sexual orientation is influenced by prenatal processes."[81]
Gay men and lesbians are more verbally fluent than heterosexuals of the same gender[101][102] (but two studies did not find this result[103][104]).
Gay men are better than straight men at object location memory (no difference was found between lesbians and straight women).[105]


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