Remember that time when, even though no one was touching you, you felt like you kind of maybe sort of came in your sleep (or, lucky you, at the diner or whatever)? Well, according to a new study, you probably actually did.
Says Dr. Barry Komisaruk, co-author of The Science Of Orgasm:
“The pleasure centres of the brain associated with orgasm light up in women who think themselves to orgasm in exactly the same way as in women who orgasm through more conventional means.”
This is the saddest story ever, and apparently it’s been going on for years: honeybees are dying. As reported by ABC News this past March:
In 2009 almost 29 percent of the bee colonies in the United States collapsed, say scientists who surveyed commercial beekeepers and brokers. That’s slightly less than the 36 percent loss in 2008 and the 32 percent counted in 2007, but an informal survey just finished suggests that the die-off continues.
We’ve already talked about why bee byproducts are so incredible. But this goes far beyond honey masks and the beeswax in our lip balms. Much of our fragile ecosystem balances on the bee: one in every three bites of food apparently comes from a plant source that was pollinated by one.
So why is this happening? Nobody is sure, but the conjectures sound awfully similar to ones made about other so-called mystery epidemics. Environmental toxins, like pesticides, seem a plausible culprit. According to researchers at Penn State:
No one pesticide, they said, was strong enough to be lethal—but they said it is possible that some of them are combining in some way that is not yet understood.
Yep, sounds about right. When are we going to realize that using willy-nilly combinations of chemicals that we know little about to begin with is bound to wreak some unspeakable havoc on the earth, on bees, on our bodies…Â Sound like anything else we’ve been talking about? Ugh.
