The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley

 

 Why do we have sex? One of the main biological reasons, contends Ridley, is to combat disease. By constantly combining and recombining genes every generation, people “keep their genes one step ahead of their parasites,” thereby strengthening resistance to bacteria and viruses that cause deadly diseases or epidemics. – Constance Rinaldo, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H….

2005 Online Dating survey explores Sexual Behaviour of South Africans

 

 The 2005 Online Dating Survey, which launches today, explores how the Internet is changing the sexual behaviour of South Africans. NETucation, the company behind the online dating research, is the leading BEE Internet research company and studies the behaviour of South Africans using the Internet. “Now that we understand the basics of how and why…

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Any Dummy can date Online: Online Dating for Dummies

 

 For those already familiar with the ‘for Dummies’ books, this instalment will come as a rather comfortable guide to yet another of life’s great trials: dating. In this case, of the Internet variety. No matter for those who don’t, though. The book is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand introduction to a foreign and, no doubt, terrifying new…

Batman Begins

 

 Well, tonight I watched Batman Begins with my little sister, who is visiting me for the June school holidays from Uitenhage. This is a great movie and I recommend everyone to go and watch it because of its authenticity. Christopher Nolan, who also wrote and directed the amazing film, Memento, has brought Batman to life…