Welcome to Double X Science for June 22, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Jeff Perkel, tech editor.
Our topics cover posts since the end of May:
Early Puberty Among Adoptees by Health Editor Tara Haelle
http://www.doublexscience.org/adoptees-early-puberty-rates/
Calculating Vaccine Risk by Contributor Alison Hagood
http://www.doublexscience.org/calculating-vaccine-risk/
Arousal during rape by Contributor Jenny Morber
http://www.doublexscience.org/arousal-during-rape/
Five Reasons Mermaids are Impossible by Editor-in-Chief Emily Willingham
http://www.doublexscience.org/five-reasons-mermaids-are-impossible/
On Pacifiers and Breastfeeding by Health Editor Tara Haelle
http://www.doublexscience.org/of-pacifiers-and-breastfeeding/
Chasing Tornadoes is an Old Habit by Tech Editor Jeffrey Perkel
http://www.doublexscience.org/storm-chasers-colonial-edition/
Sizing Up the Mother in Me by Contributor Joss Fong
http://www.doublexscience.org/sizing-up-the-mother-in-me/
He found out he has ovaries by Editor-in-chief Emily Willingham
http://www.doublexscience.org/he-found-out-he-has-ovaries/
SCOTUS ruling means cheaper genetic testing by science ed editor Chris Gunter
http://www.doublexscience.org/myriad-genetics-ruling/
Shark Clones: A Story of Parthenogenesis
http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/06/shark-clones-story-of-parthenogenesis.html
Dr. Irene Helen Battle
http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/06/dr-helen-irene-battle.html
ews of the week was about the Big Brain Project.
http://www.nature.com/news/whole-human-brain-mapped-in-3d-1.13245?WT.mc_id=PIN_NatureNews
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