Dec 14
The Lisbon of José Saramago
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Jose Saramago, Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, was born in Azinhaga in 1922 and moved with his family to Lisbon in 1924. His family was very poor and he had to leave his studies at technical college very early. For this reason the great Portuguese writer liked to affirm his auto didacticism, and his [...]
Dec 10
Do sisters make a man less sexy?
icon1 lisbonblogger | icon2 Lisbon | icon4 12 10th, 2010| icon33 Comments »
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin conducted a study with rats that found males that were raised in a female-dominated litter were less attractive for mating to females later on. Is this applicable to humans as well? When the rats were born they were put into 3 different kinds of litters: male-dominated, female-dominated and [...]