I'm currently reading
Bonk: the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach. Funniest book I've read in a long time. I laugh out loud at least once a paragraph. My wife thinks I've gone crazy. An excerpt:
Mary Roach writes:
In the penis paper, Deng mentioned the possibility of one day soon capturing an ultrasound sequence of real-time two-party human coitus...
I sent Dr. Deng an email asking permission to come to London to observe the first scan. He wrote back immediately.
Dear Ms. Roach, Many thanks for your interest in our research. You are welcome to interview me in London. . . .However, to arrange a new in-action would be very difficult, mainly due to the difficulty in recruiting volunteers. If your organization is able to recruit brave couple(s) for an intimate (but non-invasive) study, I would be happy to arrange and perform one.
My organization gave some thought to this. What couple would do this? More direly, who wanted to pay the threee or four thousand dollars it would cost to fly them both to London and put them up in a nice hotel? My organization balked. It called its husband.
"You know how you were saying you haven't been to Europe in twenty-five years?"
On the other hand, if you're looking to return from vacation primed for resuming the creation/evolution debate then I can also recommend this other book I'm reading,
Living with Darwin by Philip Kitcher.
--Percy
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