It's Always More Complicated

Urban foxes no more cunning than rural ones, researchers find:

Although urban foxes were more likely to physically interact with the puzzle feeders, suggesting they might be bolder, there was no difference in their willingness to persist to try to gain access to the food inside.

“Although we found a tendency for London foxes to behave bolder and exploit the puzzles, many other foxes in our study were too shy or unmotivated to exploit them despite having access for up to two weeks,” Morton said.

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You know, I do think PSC is getting more sensible these days: 'she does not need to climax through penetration' and in these circs, QUITE.

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Errrr, ummmmm, this looks exactly like Ye Olde Dutch Cap, only PINK: Menstrual discs may be better for heavy periods than pads or tampons – study - 'diaphragm-shaped', duh - though perhaps for menstrual purposes they do not require the rather careful fitting for size requisite for contraceptive purposes? (reproductive history nerd enquires.)

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Reproduction in Transition: Fertility Technology in the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minorities, by An Acquaintance. Taster for forthcoming book.

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I did wonder if this was just going to be more or less about the democratisation of the Grand Tour for C18th-19th Gay Men of the Elite, but it's more nuanced than that: ‘To get freedom, one went abroad a lot’: British Homosexual Men and Continental Europe as a Site of Emancipation, 1950–75: I think the whole Amsterdam thing was probably very much a post WW2 thing (? similar to post WW1 Berlin???), and a certain amount of the Mediterranean beach resort tourism might have been more about copping off with other tourists in the whole holiday fling away from home and criminalisation atmosphere, rather than the rather more exploitative earlier model.

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And this one is just because: The PanoptiCam: an online camera that streams what Bentham sees while sitting in his cabinet at UCL. Just because the recurrent motif of JEREMY BENTHAM'S HEAD around these parts.