Using a penile plethysmograph (PPG), the following paper (summary here) reports that sexual arousal of homophobes is greater than in non-homophobes when viewing homosexual sex. They also tend to admit to far less arousal than the PPG reports. Could be just anxiety rather than suppressed homosexuality, but interesting nonetheless.
Adams, Henry E; Wright, Lester W. [...]
From the Telegraph’s Literary Life:
The “Mind, Body and Spirit” genre continues to expand its presence on the bookshelves, if not the consciousness of its readers.
“Few goods perish in the instant of their production (electricity and the services of prostitutes come to mind)”
Hoover, Kevin D. 1993. “Causality and Temporal Order in Macroeconomics or Why Even Economists Don’t Know How to Get Causes from Probabilities”, in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 44, No. 4, December 1993, p 702. [...]
There’s a new translation of Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground out. It’s in the beautifully bound Everyman Library, which is an added bonus. There’s a review of it from Salon here—overall it’s a good review, and I’ll certainly buy the new translation. But it seems very strange to me that the author of [...]
This article in the Sunday Times is fucking unbelievable. You needn’t read it, I will give it to you in a sentence: it is now cool to read books again. Or perhaps: books are the new records. Or something like that. The mass entertainment industry seems poised to completely annihilate book [...]
Since I started writing online a few years back I have for the most part fastidiously avoided writing about technology. Maybe it’s for prosaic reasons, wanting to put my former life as a software engineer behind me. But that’s not exactly true—I’m a closet utopian, I love the frisson of the smooth-functioning machine. [...]
You have to love anybody brave enough to start yet one more literary slash politics slash culture magazine. Is New York really big enough to sustain the still further expansion of intellectual vistas? Sure, hints the for-this-very-reason (I speculate) titled n+1, which leads with a really nice take on the dilemma the left [...]