Swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon...

Women prefer more "masculine" men during fertile portion of menstrual cycle (via MeFi comments)

While I'm at it, why not clean these out of the old bookmarks:

• Contraceptive changes women's taste in men
• Pheromones in Male Perspiration Reduce Women's Tension, Alter Hormone Response that Regulates Menstrual Cycle (for references to the papers, visit the Monell Chemical Senses Center's pages for C. J. Wysocki or G. Preti and click on the "My Monell Publications" link at the bottom.).
  See also: Discover Magazine profile of Preti, and Google Search which turns up many other hits on this work.

UPDATE: Hmm, the original papers link for the contraceptive study appears to have evaporated, and I can only track down Tony Little's publication list, which only provides cites, not PDFs. Clueless pyschologists; why can't they put their papers on the web, and keep them there, like computer scientists do? Don't they understand that their work will be mangled beyond recognition by journalists and PR people?

My Flimsy Rationale

OK, so I spend way too much time browsing the web. The web is the worst/best thing that ever happened to compulsive readers. My bookmarks file has gotten out of control; it's nested like five levels deep again. So, I decided to blog the interesting links I find instead of bookmarking them. Hence this blog.