HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.skeptic,soc.men,soc.women
Subject: Re: Biological Sex Differences? ("Women only" excusable ?)
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:15:12 GMT
 m.com> <1992Aug11.225224.13677@s1.gov><1992Aug12.210134.19586@news.cs.indiana.
 edu> <BswLzz.Jt4@news.cso.uiuc.edu><jysuh.713680789@copper>
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center


    There seem to be three points of view about mental differences between
    men and women.

    1.  There aren't any.
    2.  Men are smarter than women.
    3.  Women are smarter than men.

    A recent article by Doreen Kimura in the Scientific American (Sep.
    1992, pages 118-125) shows that all three beliefs are wrong.  Here are
    some quotes:

    `The  bulk  of  the  evidence  suggests,  however,  that the effects of
    hormones occur so early in life that from the start the environment  is
    acting on differently wired brains in girls and boys.'

    `Christina L. Williams  of Barnard College  has shown that  female rats
    have a greater tendency to use landmarks in spatial learning tasks - as
    it appears women do.'

    It is important to remember, however, that in many of these tasks,  the
    differences within each group are greater than the differences  between
    the groups.  A man who likes landmarks or a woman who likes maps,  need
    not feel deterred.  We can't all be the same, even when we are the same
    sex.

    Rohit Parikh
Newsgroups: sci.bio
From: rising@zoo.toronto.edu (Jim Rising)
Subject: Intelligence
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:05:52 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

As Stanley and others have pointed out, you have to scale for
body size to compare brain sizes among individuals.  While it
is apparently possible to come up with ways of quantifying differences
in "intelligence" (defined in some manner) among individual
humans it simply does not make sense to make comments such as
humans are smarter than chimps or what have you.  When you say
something like that you are in essence saying that humans are
better at the things that humans are good at than chimps are because
our perception of "smart" is biased toward those things.  A dog
would think that you were pretty stupid for not being able to 
interpret all of that olfactory information that it is sensitive
to.  Many birds would be amazed as how stupid we all are about
homing and navigation.  Does that mean that pigeons are smarter
than we?  Well, it that way they are!
-- 
Name:     Jim Rising
Mail:     Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada    M5S 1A1
UUCP:     uunet!attcan!utzoo!rising 
BITNET:   rising@zoo.utoronto.ca
Newsgroups: sci.bio
From: rising@zoo.toronto.edu (Jim Rising)
Subject: Sexual Selection:  breasts and penises
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:44:54 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

Actually, if you compare humans to other apes, they have relatively
large penises and small testes.  Inasmuch most of the tissue of 
adult females' breasts is fat, it has been argued that the hypertrophied
breasts and buttocks of adult human females represent an honest signal
of high reproductive value.  When the body fat level of females drops
below a certain percentage they no longer ovulate--and thus are not 
desirable as mates for males.  The hypertrophied areas provide males, it
is argued, with a way to assess this body fat level (I'm not implying
that this is a conscious thing, only that natural selection historically
has favored females who so signal this fat and males that choose it).

For a paper on testis size, see Harcourt et al (Nature 293:55-57, 1981)
and on the breast/buttocks hypothesis see Cant (Am. Nat. 117:119-204, 1981--
1981  seems to have been a good year for this sort of thing!).
-- 
Name:     Jim Rising
Mail:     Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada    M5S 1A1
UUCP:     uunet!attcan!utzoo!rising 
BITNET:   rising@zoo.utoronto.ca
Newsgroups: sci.bio
From: terry@thisbe.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
Subject: Re: COMPUTERS AND SEX DIFFERENCES
Organization: Novell NPD -- Sandy, UT
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:14:09 GMT

In article <crystal.714180172@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
>In <1992Aug18.211133.23042@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Aug11.183137.544@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_maraiajj@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
>>>A FEW MONTHS AGO, I HEARD THAT SOME SCIENCETISTS WERE WORKING ON A COMPUTER TO
>>>TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW PEOPLE COULD FIGURE OUT HOW PEOPLE COULD TELL WHETHER A
>>>PERSON WAS A BOY OR A GIRL BY LOOKING AT THEIR FACE.  HAS ANYONE HEARD ANYTHING
>>>ABOUT THIS? 
>
>>I wonder, if there is such a beast, what it would say about a picture of
>>Boy George, Tula, or Dustin Hoffman as "Tootsie"?  I mean if the programmer
>>can't tell, it's likely the programmer isn't going to make the machine tell
>>either.  8-), for the humor impaired.
>
>I can tell male and female cats apart just by looking at their faces. I
>don't know how I do it, but it's fun to do while waiting in the vet's     
>office. :>
>
>Of course, I met a little girl who claimed she could tell by coat length.
>Longhairs were girls, shorthairs were boys... :>
>
>(She was *very* serious, too...and about 8 years old)

I have a nephew who can tell too -- dogs are boys and cats are girls.  He
wants a puppy-cat for his birthday, since he already has a girl one.

					Terry Lambert
					terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
					terry@icarus.weber.edu

---
Disclaimer:  Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of
my present or previous employers.
Newsgroups: sci.bio
From: 890707p@ace.acadiau.ca (GLENN G. PARSONS)
Subject: Adresses??
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:05:35 GMT

I am desperately seeking a some adresses for post grad biology programs in 
the U.K., including Ireland.
If anyone could send me some general university adresses, I would be 
extremely gratefull!!!!
                                                    MickJ
Newsgroups: sci.bio,bionet.molbio.evolution,talk.origins
From: scott@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Scott Howard)
Subject: Re: Was There Once an RNA World of Life?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:37:55 GMT

Clays seem like more hospitable places than UV showered,
constantly pummled beaches...
--
"       A race of hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings once built
themselves a gigantic supercomputer called Deep Thought to calculate once
and for all the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and
Everything.
        For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and
calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-Two -
and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the
Newsgroups: sci.bio
From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Subject: Re: Provocative DATA about sexes, brains, animals, intelligence
Organization: The Cat Factory
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:37:45 GMT

In article <16015@pitt.UUCP> geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:

}>>As to whether or not people in mensa are overweight, I believe that the majority
}>>of the ones I know are; however, they also tend to have fairly sedentary
}
}Very few of the smart people I know feel any need to join Mensa.  I
}think Mensa may have an attraction for people who have difficulty
}with normal social relations and can get into a club like Mensa on
}the basis of some other characteristic.  Obesity in youth tends to
}produce such people, and that might explain why many of these end
}up in Mensa.

What they find is Mensans aren't much more tolerant of inappropriate
behavior than anyone else (though we do tend to be more forgiving of
harmless eccentricity).

Most of the Mensans I know are not significantly obese, though many could
stand to lose a few pounds.  I don't know whether the overall proportion
is higher than that of the general population.  I suspect the ones that
are morbidly obese tend to ... er ... stand out in the crowd.

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp                   Turn the rascals out!
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (310) 450-9111, x2483     No incumbents in '92!
Santa Monica, CA  90405
From: ftmx@acad3.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: data and/or materials and/or info
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:27:42 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks


	Anyone who has data or other materials about the relations of
introcellular organs? I am interested in the research of
interorgan-relationship. Anyone who has information about this please tell me.
Thank you very much. Anyone who is interested in this please don't hesitate to
contact me.
Thank you very much.
Newsgroups: sci.bio,bionet.molbio.evolution,talk.origins
From: balasundar@watt.ccs.tuns.ca
Newsgroups: sci.bio.technology
Subject: Seeking - Employment
Date: 23 Aug 92 05:32:33 GMT

Hi,
   
   I am graduating from Technical University Of Nova Scotia with M.S
   in Electrical Engineering (MAjor:Bio-medical Engineering) 
   in sept 92.
   
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                                                    Sridhar

.................................................................
From: hatamian@gandalf.rutgers.edu (ShAhin)
Newsgroups: sci.bio.technology
Subject: MS-Biomed Seeking Employment
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:14:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: gandalf.Aug.19.14.14.12.1992.23474
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.



Hello,

A friend has asked me to post this for her. Please respond directly to her
or via email to me for a complete resume.
____________________________________________________________________________

Hi,

I am graduating in December '92 from NJIT with a MS in Biomedical Engineering.
I am currently employed by a well-known hospital products manufacturing
company as a Product Development Engineer. I am conducting my thesis research
concurrently at this company.
please feel free to contact me for a resume and/or to discuss my qualifications
further.

Thank you for your time.

Please call Elli at (201)644-9174

____________________________________________________________________________
From: v113mg59@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Ronald T Coslick Jr)
Newsgroups: sci.bio.technology
Subject: Use of Perkin-Elmer Cetus PCR equipment
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:20:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has been 
involved in the purchase or use of Perkin-Elmer Cetus PCR 
equipment.  More specifically, I would like opinions as to the 
"label license" which accompanied al of their equipment.  The 
license purported to restrict use of the equipment/process to 
r&d while explicitly prohibiting use for diagnosis of genetic 
defects and other commercial purposes.

Does anyone take these restrictions seriously or are they 
generally ignored?  Are there other companies who try to control 
the customer's use of their products subsequent to sale?

- note -  I know that Cetus has sold their PCR rights to 
Hoffmann-LaRoche, who has discontinued this practice, but 
nevertheless the Cetus "label license" was of questionable legal 
validity and the fact that they felt at liberty to use it sets a 
bad precedent.
From: DAN@UMDD.BITNET (Dan Jacobs)
Newsgroups: sci.bio.technology
Subject: 12th Annual Molecular Graphics Society Conference
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:37:38 GMT
Reply-To: Biotechnology Discussion List <BIOTECH%UMDD.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU>
Distribution: inet
Organization: The Internet


          Preliminary Announcement and Call for Contribution



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   Molecular Graphics and the Design of Bioactive Compounds
The conference will focus on molecular graphics applied to the design of
bioactive compounds. Methods, applications, and the most recent research
in this exciting area of computational chemistry will be presented.  The
preliminary program will be distributed in the 1st Circular October '92.

Interlaken is a beautiful place located in the swiss alps. Besides  the
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Newsgroups: sci.bio.technology
From: wolgamot@milton.u.washington.edu (Greg Wolgamot)
Subject: Re: SEX DIFFERENCES
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:05:40 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.183356.546@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_maraiajj@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
>A FEW MONTHS AGO, I HEARD THAT SOME SCIENCETISTS WERE WORKING ON A COMPUTER TO
>TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW PEOPLE COULD FIGURE OUT WHETHER ANOTHER PERSON WAS A BOY
>OR A GIRL BY LOOKING AT THEIR FACE.  HAS ANYONE HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THIS?

It's nice to know that our tax money is being spent well!
Newsgroups: sci.bio.technology
From: hsaiah@ul9000.unil.ch
Subject: URGENT!!! EPA medium formula? 
Organization: University of Lausanne CH (Switzerland)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:02:31 GMT

Hello I have a small problem, big for me. Is anyone could help me?
I need URGENTLY the composition of a medium for ecotoxicological test on
      ^^^^^^^^^^^
crustacean.  I lost the formula and I have actually experiments running with
this medium. The book were I could find the formula does'nt exist in
Switzerland.
 I wonder if someone could just look to the original book where is
describe the formula for the  moderately hard synthetic freshwater EPA medium:
                              `^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 (EPA= Environmental Protection Agency)

what I need:
NaHCO3......??  mg/l
MgSO4......??   mg/l
CaCl2.......?? mg/l
KCl..........?? mg/l                (ph = 7,6 +- 02,  Hardness 80-100mg/l CaCO3)

The book is:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Title:         Methods for measuring the acute toxicity of effluents to
                 freshwater and marine organisms / edited by William H. Peltier
                 and Cornelius I. Weber. 3rd ed. Cincinnati, Ohio :
                 Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Office of
                 Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection
                 Agency, 1985.
Description:   xv, 216 p. : ill., forms ; 28 cm.

Doc Numbers:   Govt Doc No.:  EP 1.23/5:600/4-85-013
               Report No.:    EPA/600/4-85/013

Notes:         "March 1985."
               "EPA/600/4-85/013."
               Includes bibliographies.

Subjects:      Water quality bioassay -- United States.
               Water -- Pollution -- United States -- Measurement.

Other entries: Weber, Cornelius I.
               Peltier, William.
               Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Cincinnati,
                 Ohio.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks in advance for your help. Mail directly to me the answer please. 
					bye,        Henni

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Henni SAIAH , Lausanne University, Switzerland  :
Email:    Hsaiah@ulys.unil.ch	(internet)      :
	  Hsaiah@clsuni51.bitnet  (Bitnet)      :
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From: ftmx@acad3.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: sci.bio.technology
Subject: data,materials and/or info
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:30:38 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks


	Anyone who has data or other materials about the relations of
introcellular organs? I am interested in the research of
interorgan-relationship. Anyone who has information about this please tell me.
Thank you very much. Anyone who is interested in this please don't hesitate to
contact me.
Thank you very much.
Xref: sparky sci.bio:2921 sci.skeptic:14259 soc.men:14931 soc.women:15206
From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.skeptic,soc.men,soc.women
Subject: Re: Biological Sex Differences?
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:30:39 GMT
Organization: LLNL

In article <1992Aug12.210134.19586@news.cs.indiana.edu> jysuh@moose.cs.indiana.edu (Suh Jung Yul) writes:
>
>References: <78rmr+c.sheaffer@netcom.com> <cmgyoB4w164w@cellar.org> <_13ma9-.sheaffer@netcom.com> <1992Aug11.225224.13677@s1.gov>
>Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:48:18 -0500

#	In decades and centuries past, many women have suffered
#serious discrimination and lack of opportunities; just check your
#friendly neighborhood history book for examples :-)

#	For instance, many leading universities would not accept
#female students. As to insisting on all-female but no all-male
#programs, that seems politically dangerous to me. But I think that "no
#women allowed" may simply be an excuse to keep women from getting
#high-status jobs.
  
>  If "men only allowed" sign is an alarming one, then why don't
>  you fight "women only allowed" sign with equal vigor ? 

	If certain women in our society tried to turn many of the
really great positions into female-only monopolies, that would be good
reason to complain. But a lot of women are simply trying to catch up :-)

	But we are talking about redressing inequities, and it is
certainly legitimate to consider whether the means of doing so involve
creating reverse injustices.
Xref: sparky sci.bio:2943 bionet.molbio.evolution:305 talk.origins:9626
From: rh@smds.com (Richard Harter)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,bionet.molbio.evolution,talk.origins
Subject: Re: Was There Once an RNA World of Life?
Date: 18 Aug 92 05:41:08 GMT
Reply-To: rh@ishmael.UUCP (Richard Harter)
Organization: Software Maintenance & Development Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug17.132342.29191@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:

Loren, I very much appreciate your two articles, and have saved them
for profitable rereading.

As I have noted in other postings, I am skeptical about the RNA world
hypothesis.  However the hot mineral springs [or thermal vent] hypothesis
and the arguments for it are persuasive.

Thanks for the postings.
-- 
Richard Harter: SMDS Inc.  Net address: rh@smds.com Phone: 508-369-7398 
US Mail: SMDS Inc., PO Box 555, Concord MA 01742.    Fax: 508-369-8272
In the fields of Hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die.
Newsgroups: sci.bio
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Subject: Re: COMPUTERS AND SEX DIFFERENCES
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:22:52 GMT

In <1992Aug18.211133.23042@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:

>In article <1992Aug11.183137.544@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_maraiajj@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
>>A FEW MONTHS AGO, I HEARD THAT SOME SCIENCETISTS WERE WORKING ON A COMPUTER TO
>>TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW PEOPLE COULD FIGURE OUT HOW PEOPLE COULD TELL WHETHER A
>>PERSON WAS A BOY OR A GIRL BY LOOKING AT THEIR FACE.  HAS ANYONE HEARD ANYTHING
>>ABOUT THIS? 

>I wonder, if there is such a beast, what it would say about a picture of
>Boy George, Tula, or Dustin Hoffman as "Tootsie"?  I mean if the programmer
>can't tell, it's likely the programmer isn't going to make the machine tell
>either.  8-), for the humor impaired.

>					Terry Lambert
>					terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
>					terry@icarus.weber.edu
>---
>Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
>or previous employers.
>-- 
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                                       terry@icarus.weber.edu
> "I have an 8 user poetic license" - me
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


I can tell male and female cats apart just by looking at their faces. I
don't know how I do it, but it's fun to do while waiting in the vet's     
office. :>

Of course, I met a little girl who claimed she could tell by coat length.
Longhairs were girls, shorthairs were boys... :>

(She was *very* serious, too...and about 8 years old)

Crystal
  ;>

Xref: sparky sci.bio:2932 rec.games.frp.misc:4020 rec.games.frp.dnd:2623
From: sbrogii@copernicus.Tymnet.COM (Scott Brogley)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,rec.games.frp.misc,rec.games.frp.dnd
Subject: Royal Jelly Question(not to change the subject, but...)
Summary: Need info(all aspects) royal jelly prod.,use(by hive)
Keywords: royal honey bees hive
Date: 15 Aug 92 13:50:57 GMT
Followup-To: sci.bio
Organization: BT North America (Tymnet)

I need info on all aspects of Royal Jelly. How much is produced by a hive.
What it's uses are in the hive. how does this relate to the maturation of
Queens. How often are Queens produced. Etc.
I also need sources.

	Please reply to: sbrogii@Tymnet.Com
	Please note crossposting

Thanks in advance,
Scott Brogley
Newsgroups: sci.bio
From: le01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel (x2025))
Subject: Re: Sexual Selection:  breasts and penises
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co. - Rye Canyon
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 21:01:35 GMT

In article <BtC8yv.6HD@zoo.toronto.edu>, rising@zoo.toronto.edu (Jim Rising) writes...

>Actually, if you compare humans to other apes, they have relatively
>large penises and small testes. 

That figures doesn't it?  That explains why us human males are all show
and no balls to back it up with!

Ron :^>
From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Subject: Re: Fishing for Nukes
Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:36:19 GMT


In article <1992Aug18.205816.22775@fcom.cc.utah.edu>,
terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
|>
|>In article <1992Aug8.205126.23032@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
|>bj368@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike E. Romano) writes:
|>>
|>>When will the biologists wake up to taking a strong stand on the
|>>destruction of nature?
|>
|>Perhaps when it becomes a biological rather than an ecological issue?

Ecology is a subdicipline of biology.  Habitat destruction *is* a biological
phenomenon.  However it is not an issue in Biology--it is occuring and
all Biologists agree it is occurring.  "Taking a strong stand",
you have crossed over into the disciplines of Sociology and Politics.

--PSW
Xref: sparky sci.bio:2922 sci.environment:10647