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On immigration, U.S. in punt formation
The paradox of the Obama administration's plan to achieve comprehensive immigration reform — one of these days, when it gets around to it, be patient — is that the agency responsible for removing illegal immigrants is now supposed to find a way for millions of them to stay. Given that agency's law enforcement bent, don't be surprised if it is much better at the former than the latter.
The Department of Homeland Security is where you'll find U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is the administration's point person for immigration reform. Many Latino liberals naively hoped that, as a Democrat, Napolitano would conjure up a kinder and gentler version of immigration enforcement, such as a decrease in deportations and an end to workplace raids. This hasn't happened.
What has is that, under this administration, ICE is supposedly doing more to crack down on employers who hire illegal immigrants — when it's not praising those who don't. Homeland Security recently unveiled an effort to spotlight the hundreds of thousands of companies that use the "e-verify" program, a free Web-based system that compares information from the Employment Eligibility Verification Form (I-9) against federal databases to verify workers' eligibility.
Fine. But, besides handing out blue ribbons, ICE needs to make more arrests of employers who ignore the law in addition to rounding up the illegal immigrants they hire. The government should not be shy about continuing work-site raids, but the net needs to be much wider and catch bigger fish.
Appearing with Napolitano at the news conference to announce the new initiative was John Morton, assistant secretary for ICE. Morton recently made headlines by trying to rein in renegade Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., who is enforcing immigration law, despite the fact the administration has denied him the authority to do so. Addressing the issue of employers, Morton dished some plain truth.
"The main reason people enter the United States illegally is the opportunity to work," he said.
He's right. These people don't come for welfare, healthcare or public schools. They don't come as part of an invasion force that is intent on converting the United States into a Spanish-speaking nation so it can become part of Mexico. Illegal immigrants come to work — mostly at jobs in which Americans have lost interest.
Yet, enforcement is only part of the equation. During a recent speech to the Center for American Progress, Napolitano spelled out the rest. Borrowing language from the Bush administration, she called for a "three-legged stool" that includes enforcement, pathways for legal immigrants, and "a firm but fair way to deal with those who are already here."
Enforcement is the province of Homeland Security. But Napolitano doesn't seem all that eager to force the other two legs of the stool. Despite saying that immigration reform "has been punted from year to year, from Congress to Congress, from administration to administration," she did the same thing. She punted.
"When Congress is ready to act," Napolitano said, "we will be ready to support them."
When Congress is ready to act? Is she kidding? Congress is never ready to act on difficult issues that make enemies and threaten to terminate the comfy jobs of legislators.
Latinos care about a range of issues. Still, many of the Latino voters who helped put Barack Obama in the White House expect him to keep his promise and deliver comprehensive immigration reform. They see the issue as a test of political courage. Instead, all they've gotten are more promises, stall tactics and pushed deadlines.
Obama showed up for the debates on an economic stimulus, healthcare, climate change, education reform, and troop strength in Afghanistan. Why? It's because he obviously cares about those issues. So Obama doesn't care about fixing the immigration system? Now he tells us.
— Ruben Navarrette writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune. E-mail him at email@example.com.
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By Denali Tietjen Caffeine isn't healthy, but that's no news. The withdrawal headaches, jitteriness and dehydration kind of gave that one way. What is news, however, is that starting at puberty, it's worse for boys than girls. Girls and boys have the same cardiovascular reactions to caffeine in childhood, but begin to react differently in adolescence, finds a new study conducted by researchers from The University of Buffalo. In the double-blind study published in the June issue of Pediatrics, researchers examined the cardiovascular reactions of 52 pre-pubescent (ages eight to nine) and 49 post-pubescent (ages 15 to 17) children to varying levels of caffeine. Participants consumed either the placebo, 1 mg/kg or 2 mg/kg caffeinated sodas, and then had their heart rates and blood pressures taken. The results found that pre-pubescent children had the same reaction to caffeine regardless of gender, while post-pubescent boys had much stronger cardiovascular reactions to caffeine than girls. The study also examined post-pubescent girls' reactions to caffeine at various phases of their menstrual cycles. At different stages of the cycle, the girls metabolized caffeine differently. "We found differences in responses to caffeine across the menstrual cycle in post-pubertal girls, with decreases in heart rate that were greater in the mid-luteal phase and blood pressure increases that were greater in the mid-follicular phase of the menstrual cycle," Dr. Jennifer Temple, one of the researchers who conducted the study said in a University at Buffalo press release announcing the study.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases; Chapter 4: The Chemistry of Behavior: Neurotransmitters and Neuropharmacology
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex; Chapter 4: The Chemistry of Behavior: Neurotransmitters and Neuropharmacology
Link ID: 19739 - Posted: 06.17.2014
By Jenny Graves The claim that homosexual men share a "gay gene" created a furor in the 1990s. But new research two decades on supports this claim – and adds another candidate gene. To an evolutionary geneticist, the idea that a person's genetic makeup affects their mating preference is unsurprising. We see it in the animal world all the time. There are probably many genes that affect human sexual orientation. But rather than thinking of them as "gay genes," perhaps we should consider them "male-loving genes." They may be common because these variant genes, in a female, predispose her to mate earlier and more often and to have more children. Likewise, it would be surprising if there were not "female-loving genes" in lesbian women that, in a male, predispose him to mate earlier and have more children. We can detect genetic variants that produce differences between people by tracking traits in families that display differences. Patterns of inheritance reveal variants of genes (called "alleles") that affect normal differences, such as hair color, or disease states, such as sickle cell anemia. Quantitative traits, such as height, are affected by many different genes, as well as environmental factors. It's hard to use these techniques to detect genetic variants associated with male homosexuality partly because many gay men prefer not to be open about their sexuality. It is even harder because, as twin studies have shown, shared genes are only part of the story. Hormones, birth order and environment play roles, too.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases; Chapter 7: Life-Span Development of the Brain and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex; Chapter 13: Memory, Learning, and Development
Link ID: 19699 - Posted: 06.06.2014
By MARK OPPENHEIMER When our young daughters first decided to play on top of our Honda minivan, parked in our driveway, my wife was worried. But to me, it seemed no less safe than chasing a ball that frequently ended up in the street. And they loved the height, the novelty, the danger. So I let them stay. They never fell. And with the summer weather here, playing on the car is once again keeping them occupied for hours. Now that I have read Paul Raeburn's "Do Fathers Matter?," I know that my comfort with more dangerous play — my willingness to let my daughters stand on top of a minivan — is a typically paternal trait. Dads roughhouse with children more, too. They also gain weight when their wives are pregnant and have an outsize effect on their children's vocabulary. The presence of dads can delay daughters' puberty. But older dads have more children with dwarfism and with Marfan syndrome. In Mr. Raeburn's book, there is plenty of good news for dads, and plenty of bad. A zippy tour through the latest research on fathers' distinctive, or predominant, contributions to their children's lives, "Do Fathers Matter?" is filled with provocative studies of human dads — not to mention a lot of curious animal experiments. (You'll learn about blackbirds' vasectomies.) But above all, Mr. Raeburn shows how little we know about the role of fathers, and how preliminary his book is. Its end is really a beginning, a prospectus for further research. Mr. Raeburn writes that "as recently as a generation ago, in the 1970s, most psychologists" believed that "with regard to infants, especially, fathers were thought to have little or no role to play." When it came to toddlers and older children, too, the great parenting theories of the 20th century placed fathers in the background. Freud famously exalted, or damned, the mother for her influence. John Bowlby's attachment theory, which he developed beginning in the 1940s, focused on the mother or "mother-figure." © 2014 The New York Times Company
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex
Link ID: 19686 - Posted: 06.03.2014
By Denali Tietjen If you watch porn, you probably have a small brain, a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows. The study, conducted by the Max Plank Institute for Human Development in Berlin, found a significant negative correlation between frequent pornography consumption and grey matter in the brain (that's the stuff that tells your brain how to react to sensory information.) The keyword here is correlation. While the study's findings are significant, the researchers don't know if it's the porn that causes the low grey-matter volume in porn-watchers, or if it's the other way around. It could be a neurological pre-condition that makes watching porn particularly satisfying. However, researchers have reason to believe that porn does negatively impact the brain. Previous research proves that frequent porn consumption can cause negative social behavior. Porn consumption can cause viewers to be less satisfied during sex and viewers often want to adopt acts they've seen in illegal pornography, according to the report. If porn can affect social behavior, it can probably affect cognitive behavior, too. The study examined the cognitive structure of 64 males ages 21 to 45 years old that consumed porn at varying levels of frequency. While few people openly admit to watching porn, 66 percent of all men and 41 percent of American women view pornography at least once a month, and an estimated 50 percent of internet traffic is sex-related, according to the journal.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex
Link ID: 19672 - Posted: 05.31.2014
Elizabeth Norton Cultures around the world have long assumed that women are hardwired to be mothers. But a new study suggests that caring for children awakens a parenting network in the brain—even turning on some of the same circuits in men as it does in women. The research implies that the neural underpinnings of the so-called maternal instinct aren't unique to women, or activated solely by hormones, but can be developed by anyone who chooses to be a parent. "This is the first study to look at the way dads' brains change with child care experience," says Kevin Pelphrey, a neuroscientist at Yale University who was not involved with the study. "What we thought of as a purely maternal circuit can also be turned on just by being a parent—which is neat, given the way our culture is changing with respect to shared responsibility and marriage equality." The findings come from an investigation of two types of households in Israel: traditional families consisting of a biological mother and father, in which the mother assumed most of the caregiving duties, though the fathers were very involved; and homosexual male couples, one of whom was the biological father, who'd had the child with the help of surrogate mothers. The two-father couples had taken the babies home shortly after birth and shared caregiving responsibilities equally. All participants in the study were first-time parents. Researchers led by Ruth Feldman, a psychologist and neuroscientist at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, visited with the families in their homes, videotaping each parent with the child and then the parents and children alone. The team, which included collaborators at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Israel, also took saliva samples from all parents before and after the videotaped sessions to measure oxytocin—a hormone that's released at times of intimacy and affection and is widely considered the "trust hormone." Within a week of the home visit, the participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning to determine how their brains reacted to the videotapes of themselves with their infants. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases; Chapter 2: Functional Neuroanatomy: The Nervous System and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex; Chapter 2: Cells and Structures: The Anatomy of the Nervous System
Link ID: 19669 - Posted: 05.28.2014
Eliana Dockterman @edockterman A new study that could affect whether adoption agencies are willing to work with gay couples shows that after adopting, gay men's brain activity resembles that of both new moms and new dads Research has shown that a new mother's brain activity changes after having a baby. Turns out, gay men's pattern of brain activity also adapts to parenthood, and resembles that of both new moms and new dads, in findings published Monday. A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sought to determine whether mothers' brains became hyper-reactive to emotional cues, like hearing their child cry after birth, because of hormonal changes or parenting experience. Researchers videotaped 89 new moms and dads taking care of their infants at home. They then measured parents' brain activity in an MRI while the parents watched videos in which their children were not featured, followed by the footage shot in their home with their kids. The 20 mothers in the study—all of whom were the primary caregivers—had heightened activity in the brain's emotion-processing regions; the amygdala, a set of neurons that processes emotions, was five times more active than the baseline. The 21 heterosexual fathers had increased activity in their cognitive circuits, which helped them determine which of the baby's body movements indicated the need for a new diaper and which ones signaled hunger. The 48 gay fathers' brain waves, on the other hand, responded similarly to both the heterosexual mom and dad. Their emotional circuits were as active as mothers', and their cognitive circuits were as active as the fathers'. Researchers also found that the more time a gay father spent with the baby, the greater a connection there was between the emotional and cognitive structures.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases; Chapter 2: Functional Neuroanatomy: The Nervous System and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex; Chapter 2: Cells and Structures: The Anatomy of the Nervous System
Link ID: 19658 - Posted: 05.26.2014
By RONI CARYN RABIN For decades, scientists have embarked on the long journey toward a medical breakthrough by first experimenting on laboratory animals. Mice or rats, pigs or dogs, they were usually male: Researchers avoided using female animals for fear that their reproductive cycles and hormone fluctuations would confound the results of delicately calibrated experiments. That laboratory tradition has had enormous consequences for women. Name a new drug or treatment, and odds are researchers know far more about its effect on men than on women. From sleeping pills to statins, women have been blindsided by side effects and dosage miscalculations that were not discovered until after the product hit the market. Now the National Institutes of Health says that this routine gender bias in basic research must end. In a commentary published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, Dr. Francis Collins, director of the N.I.H., and Dr. Janine A. Clayton, director of the institutes' Office of Research on Women's Health, warned scientists that they must begin testing their theories in female lab animals and in female tissues and cells. The N.I.H. has already taken researchers to task for their failure to include adequate numbers of women in clinical trials. The new announcement is an acknowledgment that this gender disparity begins much earlier in the research process. "Most scientists want to do the most powerful experiment to get the most durable, powerful answers," Dr. Collins said in an interview. "For most, this has not been on the radar screen as an important issue. What we're trying to do here is raise consciousness." Women now make up more than half the participants in clinical research funded by the institutes, but it has taken years to get to this point, and women still are often underrepresented in clinical trials carried out by drug companies and medical device manufacturers. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases; Chapter 16: Psychopathology: Biological Basis of Behavior Disorders
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex; Chapter 12: Psychopathology: Biological Basis of Behavioral Disorders
Link ID: 19619 - Posted: 05.15.2014
Ewen Callaway In the silk business, sex is money. Male silkworms weave cocoons with more silk of a higher quality than females do, and the multibillion dollar sericulture industry has long sought an easy way to breed only males. That might now be a realistic goal, as researchers have identified the process that determines sex in the silkworm Bombyx mori1. The sex factor is found to be a small RNA molecule — the first time that anything other than a protein has been implicated in a sex-detemination process. In nearly all Lepidoptera — the order that includes moths and butterflies — sex is determined in silkworms by a WZ chromosome system, in contrast to the XY system used in mammals. Female silkworms carry W and Z sex chromosomes, whereas males boast a pair of Z chromosomes. Last year, researchers showed how to genetically modify silkworms so that the females would express a deadly protein (see 'Genetic kill switch eradicates female silkworms for a better crop'). But efforts to identify the genes on the W chromosome that make silkworms female have come up short: the W does not seem to have any protein-making genes, and is instead almost completely filled with parasitic, mobile genetic elements called transposons. In 2011, a team led by entomologist Susumu Katsuma at the University of Tokyo reported that the W chromosome produces short RNA molecules that keep transposons at bay in newly formed egg cells2. Katsuma and his team report in Nature today1 that one such molecule, which the authors called Fem, is specific to female silkworms, suggesting that it has a role in sex determination. The Fem RNA breaks down a corresponding molecule made by a gene known as Masculinizer, which is found on the Z chromosome. When the researchers silenced Masculinizer, embryos execute a genetic programme that makes female tissue. © 2014 Nature Publishing Group
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex
Link ID: 19611 - Posted: 05.15.2014
|By Jason G. Goldman When a male fallow deer wants to mate, he isn't shy about letting everyone around him know. The males, also called fallow bucks, can produce their mating calls as many as 3,000 times each hour during the mating season. Those calls serve two functions: to attract females and to deter rival males. Yet there is more hidden in the groans of fallow bucks than first meets the ear, according to a new study in Behavioral Ecology. Every October around 25 bucks gather in Petworth Park in England's county of West Sussex, where each stakes out a territory, hoping to entice a female at a feral conclave of romance, combat and deer calling, an event known as a lek. "Leks are really rare in mammals, and they're really rare in ungulates. Fallow deer are the only species of deer that we know that lek," says Alan McElligott of Queen Mary, University of London, who oversaw the study. Mating calls reveal information about the caller, such as body size or dominance rank, which is useful both to interested females and to rival males—and every conceivable type of fallow deer utterance turns up at the lek. In one study, McElligott found that the quality of groans decreased over time. "The mature bucks stop eating for a couple of weeks," over the course of the lek, McElligott explains, so "they are really worn out." That fatigue is reflected in their calls, but do other males notice? Because the lek is such a spectacle, the deer in Petworth Park are accustomed to human interlopers, which allowed Queen Mary postdoctoral scholar Benjamin J. Pitcher to cart a sound system around without interrupting the festivities. © 2014 Scientific American
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex
Link ID: 19599 - Posted: 05.12.2014
The gene that most likely determines the sex of the platypus and echidna has been identified by Australian and Swiss researchers. The study also shows that the Y chromosome, contrary to previous assumptions, carries genes that are important to the basic viability of male mammals, says geneticist Dr Paul Waters from the University of New South Wales. Although the Y chromosome is known to be important in sex determination, little is known about the function and evolution of its genes, says Waters. He says this is because it has so many repetitive and palindromic sequences, which make it hard to reconstruct the true sequences of its genes from fragments of sequenced DNA. Monotremes (the platypus and the echidna), whose males have 5 X chromosomes and 5 Y chromosomes, are especially challenging. "No one had really characterised any Y chromosomes in platypus before because they've got quite a complex sex chromosome system," says Waters. Waters and colleagues from the University of Adelaide and the University of Lausanne now report on their new analysis of male and female DNA from 15 representative mammals, including human, elephants, marsupials and monotremes. The study, reported recently in the journal Nature, is the largest of its kind, and relied on a rapid new sequencing technique. © 2014 Discovery Communications, LLC.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex
Link ID: 19582 - Posted: 05.07.2014
A UBC neuroscientist says motherhood permanently alters the brain, exposing moms to different health risks than women without children. Liisa Galea, a professor in the university's psychology department, says some changes are temporary while others are permanent. The most obvious example is size. According to Galea, a mother's brain shrinks by up to eight per cent during pregnancy. While it bounces back about six months after birth, she notes the reaction could have repercussions. "Our research shows that, as a result of these transformations, mothers experience different cognitive abilities and health risks than women without children," said Galea. And she warns that women who've borne children may even react to medication differently. "If mothers' brains are different than other women's brains, as our research finds, it means we must embrace greater personalization of medical care – not only for men versus women, but even among women with different life experiences," she said. But that's a challenge that may be insurmountable given that medical research studies at the animal model level have relied predominantly on the use of male rats. "Why would we assume that what works in a male rat automatically works in a female patient before testing it on a female rat?" questioned Galea. She claims one of the big failures of translational studies is that most fail to acknowledge how subjects' gender, or other unique characteristics, like motherhood, plays a role. © CBC 2014
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases; Chapter 5: Hormones and the Brain
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex; Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex
Link ID: 19561 - Posted: 05.03.2014
Guys, do you prefer more feminine faces? If so, chances are you grew up in a relatively healthy place. New research suggests that men raised in countries with higher average lifespans and lower child mortality more strongly prefer women with softer features than do men raised in less healthy nations. The finding bolsters the idea that years of human evolution have made men attracted to faces that could help them survive. Previous studies have found that women living in harsher conditions—such as communities with high homicide rates and low income—are more inclined to find more masculine men attractive. Urszula Marcinkowska, a biologist at the University of Turku in Finland, and her colleagues wanted to know whether culture also influenced males' preferences for females, or whether men judged females in a more universal way. Using an online survey conducted in 16 different languages, the researchers presented 1972 heterosexual males between the ages of 18 and 24 from 28 different countries with 20 pairs of Caucasian female faces. Each pair contained one face with more feminine traits—such as larger eyes, fuller lips, and a less angular jaw—as well as a more androgynous face, with thinner lips and a wider chin. Participants were asked to select which face in each pair they found more sexually attractive. While men across all cultures generally preferred a more feminine face, the strength of that preference varied between countries. The difference couldn't be explained by the ratio of men to women in a country, its gross national income, or the race of the participants, but it did correlate with the national health index of the men's countries—a measure of overall well-being. Those from countries like Japan, with high national health index scores, chose the more feminine face more than three-quarters of the time, the authors report online today in Biology Letters. Men from countries such as Nepal, which has a lower health rating, selected the more feminine face in only slightly more than half of the cases, on average. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases; Chapter 5: Hormones and the Brain
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex; Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex
Link ID: 19555 - Posted: 04.30.2014
THAT health and beauty are linked is not in doubt. But it comes as something of a surprise that who is perceived as beautiful depends not only on the health of the person in question but also on the average level of health in the place where she lives. This, though, is the conclusion of a study just published in Biology Letters by Urszula Marcinkowska of the University of Turku, in Finland, and her colleagues—for Ms Marcinkowska has found that men in healthy countries think women with the most feminine faces are the prettiest whilst those in unhealthy places prefer more masculine-looking ones. Ms Marcinkowska came to this conclusion by showing nearly 2,000 men from 28 countries various versions of the same female faces, modified to look less or more feminine, and thus reflect the effects of different levels of oestrogen and testosterone. Oestrogen promotes features, such as large eyes and full lips, that are characteristically feminine. Testosterone promotes masculine features, such as wide faces and strong chins. As the chart shows, the correlation is remarkable—and statistical analysis shows it is unconnected with a country's wealth or its ratio of men to women and thus the amount of choice available to men. The cause, though, is unclear. Previous studies have shown that women with feminine features are more fertile. A man's preference for them is thus likely to enhance his reproductive success. Ms Marcinkowska speculates that testosterone-induced behavioural characteristics like dominance, which might be expected to correlate with masculine-looking faces even in women (they certainly do in men), help in the competition for resources needed to sustain children once they are born. But why that should be particularly important in an unhealthy country is unclear.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases; Chapter 5: Hormones and the Brain
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex; Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex
Link ID: 19554 - Posted: 04.30.2014
by Laura Sanders When a baby cries at night, exhausted parents scramble to figure out why. He's hungry. Wet. Cold. Lonely. But now, a Harvard scientist offers more sinister explanation: The baby who demands to be breastfed in the middle of the night is preventing his mom from getting pregnant again. This devious intention makes perfect sense, says evolutionary biologist David Haig, who describes his idea in Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. Another baby means having to share mom and dad, so babies are programmed to do all they can to thwart the meeting of sperm and egg, the theory goes. Since babies can't force birth control pills on their mothers, they work with what they've got: Nighttime nursing liaisons keep women from other sorts of liaisons that might lead to another child. And beyond libido-killing interruptions and extreme fatigue, frequent night nursing also delays fertility in nursing women. Infant suckling can lead to hormone changes that put the kibosh on ovulation (though not reliably enough to be a fail-safe birth control method, as many gynecologists caution). Of course, babies don't have the wherewithal to be interrupting their mothers' fertility intentionally. It's just that in our past, babies who cried to be nursed at night had a survival edge, Haig proposes. The timing of night crying seems particularly damning, Haig says. Breastfed babies seem to ramp up their nighttime demands around 6 months of age and then slowly improve — precisely the time when a baby would want to double down on its birth control efforts. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2013
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases; Chapter 6: Evolution of the Brain and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex
Link ID: 19539 - Posted: 04.26.2014
Here to stay. The Y chromosome is small compared with the X, but is required to keep levels of some genes high enough for mammals to survive. The small, stumpy Y chromosome—possessed by male mammals but not females, and often shrugged off as doing little more than determining the sex of a developing fetus—may impact human biology in a big way. Two independent studies have concluded that the sex chromosome, which shrank millions of years ago, retains the handful of genes that it does not by chance, but because they are key to our survival. The findings may also explain differences in disease susceptibility between men and women. "The old textbook description says that once maleness is determined by a few Y chromosome genes and you have gonads, all other sex differences stem from there," says geneticist Andrew Clark of Cornell University, who was not involved in either study. "These papers open up the door to a much richer and more complex way to think about the Y chromosome." The sex chromosomes of mammals have evolved over millions of years, originating from two identical chromosomes. Now, males possess one X and one Y chromosome and females have two Xs. The presence or absence of the Y chromosome is what determines sex—the Y chromosome contains several genes key to testes formation. But while the X chromosome has remained large throughout evolution, with about 2000 genes, the Y chromosome lost most of its genetic material early in its evolution; it now retains less than 100 of those original genes. That's led some scientists to hypothesize that the chromosome is largely indispensable and could shrink away entirely. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex
Link ID: 19531 - Posted: 04.24.2014
It takes a lot to deter a male from wanting sex. A new study has found that male mice keep trying to copulate even when they are in pain, whereas females engage in less sex. But when given drugs that target pleasure centers in the human brain, the females again became interested. The findings could shed light on the nature of libido across various animal species. To assess how pain influences sexual desire, researchers first identified pairs of mice that wanted to have sex. "What we found early on was not all mice will mate with each other," says clinical psychologist Melissa Farmer, who led the study while earning her Ph.D. at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. The team set up the rodents on a series of "dates," during which a male and female were paired together for 30 minutes. Couples that copulated for most of the session were deemed compatible and moved into a cage with separate rooms. A small doorway allowed a female mouse to freely cross over from her chamber, but the male—which is larger—could not. The scientists then induced pain in males or females by applying a small dose of inflammatory compounds to the cheek, tail, foot, or genitals. The sensation would primarily be soreness, like a bad sunburn, says Farmer, who now works at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. Female mice that were in pain, whether genital or nongenital, spent 50% less time with their male partners, implying a decrease in sexual motivation. Even when they did visit their paramours, females wouldn't allow males to mount them with the same frequency, the team reports online today in The Journal of Neuroscience. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases; Chapter 8: General Principles of Sensory Processing, Touch, and Pain
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex; Chapter 5: The Sensorimotor System
Link ID: 19526 - Posted: 04.23.2014
by Bethany Brookshire Every hipster knows that something is only cool before it becomes popular. There's no point in liking a band once it hits the big time. That shirt is no good once it's no longer ironic. And it's certainly not enough to go clean shaven or grow a short beard — that's much too mainstream. Recent years have seen a resurgence of moustaches, mutton chops and Fu Manchus. A style that really stands out sticks it to conformity. It turns out that when people buck the facial hair trend, they may end up making themselves more attractive. A new study published April 16 in Biology Letters shows that either clean-shaven or fully bearded looks become more attractive when they are rare in the population. The study suggests that humans may practice what's called negative frequency-dependent selection — people rate rare looks as more attractive than they might otherwise. But when we try to figure out why, the interpretations can get pretty hairy. In every population, there is variation, both in genetics and in how individuals look. But at first blush, this variation doesn't make a lot of sense. If one particular look is the most attractive and best for the population, sexual selection should make a species converge on a single, popular look. For example, if the best male guppies have stripes, soon all male guppies will have stripes, as females will only mate with stripey males. But in nature, this is clearly not the case. Guppies come in a wild variety of patterns, and so do humans. In guppies, this variation is a result of negative frequency-dependent selection: Female guppies prefer male guppies that look unusual compared to others, rather than guppies that share common features. This helps keep looks and genes variable, a distinct advantage for the species. So an individual guppy's attractiveness doesn't just depend on his shining character, it depends on how rare his looks are in relation to other guppies. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2013
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases; Chapter 18: Attention and Higher Cognition
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex; Chapter 14: Attention and Consciousness
Link ID: 19493 - Posted: 04.16.2014
by Agata Blaszczak-Boxe, LiveScience.com Unlike many humans, some monkeys are genuinely faithful to their mates. A species known as Azara's owl monkeys tends to be monogamous, according to a new study of these primates. The research also found that the monkeys' inclination to be faithful was related to the male monkeys' tendency to care for their offspring. "They [Azara's owl monkeys] live in pairs, so, in a group, we have only one adult male and one adult female, and both of them are faithful," study author Maren Huck, a professor at the University of Derby in England, told Live Science. "We found a link between... parental care and having few instances of cheating," Huck said. Researchers had known before this study that members of the Azara's species were socially monogamous, which means that males and females live in pairs. But in animals, including humans, social monogamy is not always equivalent to what researchers call genetic monogamy, where females and males only reproduce with their mates. One way researchers can check for genetic monogamy is to analyze the DNA of mating pairs, and check the paternity of the offspring. In the study, the researchers analyzed field observations of the monkeys' behavior, along with genetic samples from a total of 128 monkeys, including some that lived in groups, and others that were solitary "floaters." The material used by the research team included samples from 35 offspring that were born to 17 reproducing pairs. © 2014 Discovery Communications, LLC
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex
Link ID: 19484 - Posted: 04.15.2014
By KATRINA KARKAZIS and REBECCA JORDAN-YOUNG In 2009, the South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya was barred from competition and obliged to undergo intrusive and humiliating "sex testing" after fellow athletes at the Berlin World Championships questioned her sex. Ms. Semenya was eventually allowed to compete again, but the incident opened the world's eyes to the process of sex testing and the distress it could bring to an athlete who had lived her whole life as a girl. When an endocrinologist, a gynecologist and a psychologist were brought in to determine whether the teenager was really a woman, she simply asserted, "I know who I am." From 2011, major sports governing bodies, including the International Olympic Committee, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association and the International Association of Athletics Federations, instituted new eligibility rules that were intended to quell the outrage over the handling of the Semenya case. Instead, as recent cases attest, they may have made things worse. Rather than trying to decide whether an athlete is "really" female, as decades of mandatory sex tests did, the current policy targets women whose bodies produce more testosterone than is typical. If a female athlete's T level is deemed too high, a medical team selected by the sport's governing bodies develops a "therapeutic proposal." This involves either surgery or drugs to lower the hormone level. If doctors can lower the athlete's testosterone to what the governing bodies consider an appropriate level, she may return to competition. If she refuses to cooperate with the investigation or the medical procedures, she is placed under a permanent ban from elite women's sports. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex
Link ID: 19471 - Posted: 04.12.2014
Julia Baird SYDNEY, Australia — PRETTY much the No. 1 question you are asked when you're pregnant is: "Girl or boy?" If you choose not to find out, but to be deliciously surprised at birth, as I did, then you will be asked to guess: "What do you feel it is?" I used to scrunch up my eyes and try hard to draw on what people told me was an age-old female intuition: Which genitals were sprouting in my round belly? I could never tell, though. It is as though the entire world is trying to guess what, or who, is inside you. One oft-told tale is that girls steal your looks and make you fat, while boys just make your belly stick out straight. When I stood wearily bulging at one friend's baby shower in Manhattan, a stylist confided that she thought our mutual friend was having a boy, because she looked so pretty. Then she looked me up and down: "I think you're having a girl." (I placed her in the same category as the neighbor who yelled, "Morning, Fatty!" over the side fence each day.) Why is whether a baby wears blue or pink the most pressing matter for adult acquaintances of a soon-to-be-born? Green is just fine, or white. But a 2007 Gallup poll found that most young Americans, and women under 50, would like to find out the sex of their baby before it is born. In some American fertility clinics, staff experts check the embryo's sex before they implant it in the womb. So what will it do to our collective minds when forced to grasp that some people are neither gender? Not male, or female, but something else either encompassing, or rejecting, or just adapting from both? Last week, Australia had to grapple with just that after the High Court, in a historic decision, ruled that a person called Norrie May-Welby could register as "nonspecific" on official certificates. Now 52, Norrie was identified, physically, as male when she was born, in Scotland, but was drawn to the world of girls, playing with dolls at age 4 and tying her school tie around her head at night to create the illusion of long hair. She escaped into the library monitors' group at school and made up adventures where she played six characters, five of whom were female: "I didn't think there was any problem with this," she says. "After all, just because I wasn't really from Krypton, didn't mean I couldn't imagine being Supergirl." © 2014 The New York Times Company
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases
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Paula and her husband were awesome from the very beginning with the taste testing. Their service and professionalism was very good not too mention the cakes were delectable. I originally did not want a fondant cake because of the taste but Paula hand made me her fondant and it... Read More was really good. My cake arrived on time the morning of my wedding. The one thing that stood out for me was after we returned from our honeymoon Paula followed up and asked how did we like the cake? The truth was I didn't remember having a piece of the cake and with that Paula offered me a complimentary duplicate of my top tier for our 1 year anniversary. It doesn't get much better than that! I have and will continue to use Cake Fiction for any event that I have!
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Paula was great to work with. She created a crockenbush plus a regular layered cake, as well as a little surprise figurine for my groom coming out from under the cake. Paula sent me sketches of the cake as we went on and changed everything I asked her to change. She was also the... Read More only one that would make me a crockenbush and I am super happy went with her. A small piece of the cake did come off when it was time for us to cut it, however that has nothing to do with Paula as it was extremely hot and humid and our venue was semi outside. The crockenbush was delicious, however we for some reason didn't get a change to taste the cake even though we cut it...hoping to try again at our anniversary.
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At first we were referred to a "factory"- the most "well known" "popular" place that does cakes for everyone, we were told, even celebrities. Well, we were given samples of two types of cakes with a few different types of fillings and given a notebook to pick a style from. You... Read More want to deviate from that list? Well, that'll be extra... I then found Paula on the Wedding Chanel website. My husband and I made an appointment. When I called, I spoke to Paula herself. I chose a few types of cakes and fillings from her very long list of assortments so that she could make the tastings fresh for my appointment. We walked in the door on a weekend- her kids were playing in the back. It's like a scene from a storybook! She was personable, passionate, artistic, warm and patient. She sketches a picture of your cake until it's exactly what you had in mind. Everything worked out perfectly and the cake itself was DELICIOUS! Every time I look back at pictures of it, I want to go back and see it and taste it again (and I'm not even a cake person!). Oh well, guess I'll have to wait until our 1 year anniversary...! If I have another function/need in the future, I will definitely use Paula again!
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Paula is just amazing!! Our wedding cake was just amazing! We ate it for days...and we did not freeze it. We also had cupcakes for our wedding and they were just amazing. We had a great time at our initial tasting and felt that Paula really listened to us and created the perfect... Read More cake topper. A year later we were ready to celebrate and we ordered another small cake....and some cupcakes :D. Once again, they were both amazing and I really can't wait to order from them every year! I plan on using them for special occasions for my family as well.
Worth every penny and probably more!Reviewed on 10/25/2014 Theo L
My wife and I worked with Paula for our wedding cake this past June, and were extremely pleased with everything from the cake-tasting and design process, working with Paula, to the final cake on our big day! Driving up to Cake Fiction was actually something we will never forget,... Read More because it is located in a remodeled 200-year-old family barn in a beautiful historic small NJ town. When we arrived at the barn, Paula had already set up three plates with the cake and filling flavors we had worked out over the phone, and explained to us her rationale for the pairs based on what we had discussed. My choice was the olive oil cake (cardamom!) with amaretto filling (quite possibly the BEST cake combination I have ever had, and I honestly did not have high hopes for the actual taste of a wedding cake), and my wife loved the coconut cake with passion fruit filling. Since in the end we couldn't come to a decision, we decided to go with both-- she got two layers, and I got one. Our cake was decorated with two birds, which Paula made herself, and it was exactly what we expected! On the big day, everything went very smoothly, and the cake was delivered on time, looked fantastic and TASTED awesome. All our guests loved the cake! I'm actually looking forward to our one year anniversary so I can eat that top layer! Although the custom made cake you will get at Cake Fiction will cost more than something more "out of the box", it really was a special part of both the wedding planning process and reflected us as a couple more so than something less expensive would have. Paula was a joy to work with, and we were very, very pleased with every part of our experience with Cake Fiction.
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I remember how difficult it was to plan a wedding, specially for a young person like myself who was working and studying at the time. When it came down to the cake I didn't know who to go to, so I searched around locally. I had a vision of what I wanted and paula made the... Read More perfect cake that suited my personality, and the type of wedding I wanted. The consultation was really great and paula went through every detail of her product, from ingredients used to the look I wanted and her ideas of how we could make it my dream cake. Everyone loved how the cake looked and specially how it tasted. We chose the coconut lime cake with passion fruit filling and it was to die for. Some people say cake its just cake but a wedding cake plays a really important role in the wedding and my rustic/ romantic cake really impressed me and my guests. I highly recommend cake fiction for anyone looking for a wow factor in a cake!
Wonderful in style quality and freshnessReviewed on 10/23/2014
When we decided to have our wedding up in NJ since same sex marriage is not yet legal in Florida, we search out various cake specialists. From the first conversation with Paula, I knew I had someone professional and accommodating. We had a theme of "wedgewood" which she was... Read More delighted to try. The cake came out stunning. We had a red velvet cake with white chocolate filling. The outside of the cake looked like an elegant piece of blue Wedgewood jasper ware. I have never tasted a fresher flavorful wedding cake in my life. Thanks to Cake Fiction for helping to make our wedding a great success. Kindest Regards Phillip
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Motorcycle Grooms CakeReviewed on 10/13/2014
I was looking for a surprise grooms cake for my wedding so I searched the internet and found Cake Fiction. From the first conversation until even after the cake was delivered I received awesome service. The establishment was clean and Paula was very professional at all times.... Read More I wanted her to design a motorcycle cake for my husband and it looked exactly like his actual motorcycle. I emailed pictures and she got every single detail. The cake was delivered on time and it tasted great. I had such a great experience with Cake Fiction that two years later I ordered cupcake for my daughters christening. Oh! and my maid of honor had a martini cupcake tower made for my bridal shower. You cannot go wrong with Cake Fiction; Paula is very personable and will communicate with you about every detail to make sure you are satisfied.
Great Experience Start to FinishReviewed on 9/29/2014 Siddharth P
Paula and Simon are amazing people, and I can't imagine having a better cake designer. At our tasting, we were blown away by how nice Paula and Simon are, and it was a pleasure to go through the process with them. Paula is incredibly talented - we gave her an idea of what we... Read More wanted at our first appointment. The cake idea was fairly unique - we wanted the cake in red with gold accents and paisley. She was able to sketch a prototype in about 20 minutes. It was remarkable to watch. We posted this experience in our blog: http://www.worldtasters.net/2014/03/19/cake-tasting-at-cake-fiction-union-nj/. As already described, Paula is a great artist. Her cakes are very tasty too! Cake Fiction offers more exotic flavors than any other bakery that does specialty cakes in the area (based on our search). And the cakes taste as good as they sound. We picked fillings with Orange Blossom flavor and Passion Fruit (we had 2 different cakes through our 4 tiers), and they tasted very different and delicious from typical cakes. We can't say enough about how good Cake Fiction is. Go to one of Paula's tastings and see her shop - I would be stunned if after this you picked someone else!
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I would highly recommend Cake Fiction. Paula and her husband, Simon, are extremely talented and accommodating, and their cakes are beautiful, impressive, and—most importantly—delicious! (The chocolate fudge cake with dulce de leche cream was a crowd favorite) I had been... Read More working with another cake decorator when it became apparent that it was not going to work out. I found Paula on Wedding Wire, and emailed her a mere month before our wedding, knowing that it was probably hopeless. Paula got right back to me and started working with me right away—while on her VACATION! [Amazing is too weak a word to describe her :) ] We ended up doing a trio of cakes including a two tiered buttercream cake with flowers, a small, hand-painted, fondant covered cake, and a naked cake. They all turned out spectacular. I can attest that Cake Fiction is talented in all areas of cake decorating—we had a little of everything with our three cakes! I don't know what I would have done if I had not stumbled upon this amazing business… A huge thank you to Paula and Simon! Added bonus: their studio is the most fabulous work space you will ever see! It has so much charm and personality.
A Beautiful CakeReviewed on 6/02/2014 Courtney
I used Cake Fiction for my wedding on 5/31/2014 and it was both beautiful and delicious! Cake Fiction was a reasonably priced bakery with the lovely and accommodating Paula. She provided us with our requested flavors at the cake tasting and provided some of her favorites. We... Read More ended up getting 3 of our favorite flavors and 1 of her recommended flavors, almond! She loved our design and created exactly what we wanted. Everyone raved about the cake and wanted more! I recommend this reasonable bakery to anyone for any occasion!
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Cake Fiction created both a wedding cake and a groom's cake for my wedding. We wanted something unique. As we were going with a book theme for the reception, we decided on a pile of books as our wedding cake. Not only did the books look fantastic, Paula actually printed out the... Read More real covers for each book and made them into an edible topping for each layer. The bride and groom on top were adorable, sitting on the edge of the cake reading books together. The groom's cake was our three pets (two cats and a tortoise) all reading a book together. It was unbelievably cute and looked just like the pictures we sent. Everyone at the wedding commented on how creative and beautiful the cakes were. I actually hated cutting into them! But in the end, they were not only beautiful but delicious. The cats were chocolate cake with chocolate filling, while the books were vanilla cake with banana cream filling. We could not have been happier with our experience with Cake Fiction. I would recommend them to anyone looking for a completely personal cake.
Beautiful (and delicious) cakeReviewed on 10/01/2013 Alexandra C
Cake Fiction made our wedding cake last year and it turned out beautifully. We met with a lot of bakers and tasted a lot of cakes before we made our decision, and Paula's cake was definitely the most delicious option. Our cake was simple and elegant, with beautiful sugar... Read More Gerbera daisies as decoration. The cake tasted as good on our wedding day as it did in our tasting months before. Paula was very easy to work with and the cake was delivered exactly as we had ordered it. We were really happy to be able to get such a beautiful and delicious cake for such an affordable price per slice.
Fabulous Groom's Cake!Reviewed on 10/01/2013 Tina S
Paula did a fantastic job making a surprise groom's cake for my husband. I brought a picture of exactly what I wanted, and after talking to her on the phone, we came up with an idea to put my husband's car on a race track with some of his favorite things lining the track the... Read More way advertisements typically would. The cake came out PERFECT! My husband was so surprised. Paula even made a little replica of my dog and put him in the passenger seat. The wedding guests and my husband were blown away. Paula was so great to work with and really reasonably priced. I'd recommend her to anyone looking for a fun, inexpensive groom's cake.
Delicious and Exactly what we wantedReviewed on 9/30/2013
My husband and I got married about a year and a half ago and from the time we got engaged, we knew that we wanted to order a cake from Cake Fiction. Being a cake decorator myself, I had a very specific cake in mind as well as a high expectation for the taste. Also because of... Read More being in the cake business, I am familiar with the prices of wedding cakes and I wouldn't think of giving my money to any cake shop other than Cake Fiction. Upon previous occasions, I had personally experienced the hospitable nature of Paula and Simon in addition to the incredible flavors and designs they offer. My husband and I went in for a tasting and she was very well prepared with multiple options to choose from as well as a beautiful shop to sit and chat in. She also made sure to ask many questions in regards to the design my husband and I were looking for so as to make sure the cake was nothing less than exactly what we wanted. Because of my personal preference in excess shine, she willfully ordered the brooch I wanted on the cake at no additional cost to me. On the day of my wedding, if there was one thing I knew I didn't need to worry about, it was my cake. The cake arrived at the venue promptly and the minor decor I asked for, to decorate the cake table with, was placed so precisely and beautifully. The cake was delicious and many of our guests inquired as to where my cake was made. My husband and I also saved the top tier of our cake to be eaten on our one year anniversary and I must say it was just as delicious as our wedding day! I plan on ordering many more cakes from them!
HIGHLY RECOMENDED!!!!Reviewed on 9/28/2013
After researching lots of cake shops in the area we were getting close to our wedding day without ordering the cake. I knew what I wanted my wedding cake to look like but it was quite difficult to put it down on paper or imagine that someone could make it that way. Just two... Read More weeks before the wedding day, a flower shop that was in charge of decorating our venue told us about the Cake Fiction. Even though it was a very short notice, Paula was still there to help us and offered a cake tasting. My friend and myself were in for the tasting. All of the cake samples that Paula prepared for us were absolutely delicious. After we chose the cake flavors Paula took pencil and a paper and asked me to describe what I wanted my wedding cake to look like! I told her all about my dream wedding cake and she drew it just as I described (in colors).My wedding cake was delivered two hours prior the reception and it looked amazing, just the way I wanted it! The most amazing three tier, hexagon, wedding cake, decorated with hand made orchids which I saved and will always treasure! Everyone loved our cake, it looked great and tasted even better. we are looking forward to our first anniversary to eat the frozen piece of cake that we saved! I can not recommend Cake Fiction highly enough, great people to deal with, provided excellent service from start to finish!
happy customerReviewed on 9/27/2013
service was excellent.cake was amazing.everything was perfect
Eiffel Tower Wedding CakeReviewed on 9/25/2013 Fernande J
So hubby and I wanted a special cake for our wedding, came up with an idea for an Eiffel tower cake and came across the cake fiction website. Emailed Paula and she responded immediately we set up a meeting and right there she drew out our cake. And the day of she delivered it... Read More and it was amazing, my guest are still raving about it, and she was so easy to work with. Best red velvet I've ever tasted
Loved your cake, having studied pastry in Paris, this meant a lot to me. And your venue The Vanderbilt was a fabulous backdrop. Thank you for trusting me with your wedding cake.
Awesome cake - Beautiful and DeliciousReviewed on 9/25/2013 Lisa N
I used Paula for my wedding cake - she made a two tier top cake, along with cupcakes for all my guests. She absolutely outdid herself and more than met my expectations. The cake was delicious and the cupcakes were talk of the event. I would definitely recommend, and I will be... Read More sure to contact Paula for all my party cake/cupcake needs.
Thank you for your generous review, we'll be delighted to help you whenever you need a cake!
So Happy!!!Reviewed on 9/25/2013 Bethany B
I am so grateful to have found Paula! Firstly, she is such a kind-hearted person, and I was honored to do business with her. My husband and I still reflect on how much fun we had with the cake tasting experience. We even took pictures at Paula's bakery so that we could remember... Read More the lovely time we had in creating our cake. Now, the cake! It was magnificent, as Paula incorporated the blending of our two cultures in her creative decoration. Not only that, she made a cake that was both vegan (for my husband and I) and non-vegan (for a good majority of our guests). Family and friends could not tell one from the other. Both vegan and non-vegan cakes were delicious!!! We have a separate vegan cake for our one year anniversary stowed in the freezer, but my husband and I are tempted to dig into it months early. Yes, it was THAT good!!
I was honored that you chose me to create your wedding cake. It's interesting to work on new recipes and perfect them for everyone to enjoy. It always amazes me how new vegan recipes turn out just as tasty as my most popular dairy versions.... Read Less Read More
Unbelievably ExecutedReviewed on 7/26/2013 Michael P
Paula at Cake Fiction created the most appealing and delicious cake for our wedding in New York City. Guests were out of their chairs all through dinner taking pictures, not of the happy couple, but our cake. No one could get over the color match between the cake and the... Read More dresses/tuxes all from a simple sample swatch we gave Cake Fiction. It was truly unbelievable. Besides looking amazing, the taste was out of this world. It was the only item of the evening that I left the dance floor to enjoy, and finish. I have been to over 20 weddings in the past 2 years and this was the only cake I have enjoyed. The planning process was not only delicious but entertaining as well. We had the opportunity to try all of the flavor combinations as well as discuss different design elements and see sketches, pictures and samples. We made a change to our design a few weeks before the big day and within 48 hours we had an emailed sketch of our change for approval. The end result, a cake we thought was only a dream. Thank you Paula for such a great addition to our special day. We look forward to the next big event to come back in for a design appointment. -1 Year Update: My husband and I unwrapped our cake for our 1st Anniversary. What we heard from so many friends was that this was a moment of great disappointment on their Anniversary. However, Cake Fiction did not fail us. The cake was left in the fridge for a few hours and WOW. It was as good 1 year later as our wedding night. Thank you for continuing to add to our wedding celebration! We can't wait to come back for a celebration cake!
Fabulous groom's cake!Reviewed on 11/14/2012 Shannon I
After calling and emailing quite a few places, I stumpled across Cake Fiction. My initial conversation with Paula told me this was the perfect place for me to order the surprise groom's cake I wanted. I went for a cake tasting and found Paula's cakes and fillings to be... Read More absolutely delicious. She drew up a sketch of the cake and after a couple of changes, she had nailed it. The day of the rehearsal dinner, I couldnt wait to lay my eyes on the cake. It was displayed ready to be seen as soon as we walked in and Paula did an absolutely fantastic job. SHe re-created the field at Giants stadium and added the Superbowl patches all around the cake with a 3-D Giants helmet placed on top. Her cake not only looked amazing, but tasted amazing as well. My husband loved the vanilla cake with oreo filling as well as our guest. Paula is so creative and I know if I ever need a special cake, she is the person I would turn to make it.
HIGHLY RECOMMEND Cake FictionReviewed on 10/10/2012 Arielle P
Paula and Simon were WONDERFUL from the very beginning the cake tasting was a pleasure everything went smoothly. We ordered a lemon cake with raspberry frosting with them for our wedding last month. Our cake was BEAUTIFUL one of the best parts of the wedding. I cant recommend... Read More Cake Fiction enough they made us an adorable and also delicious cake. We put leftovers in our freezer to save for our one year anniversary but we ended up taking it out and eating it at our one month anniversary!
delicious and beautifulReviewed on 10/10/2012 yina l
Paula's wedding cake was one of the highlights of our wedding. Our family and friends are still talking about it months after the wedding, because it was both delicious and beautiful. Paula is a creative designer - she helped us to bring an abstract idea into reality. We... Read More went to her cake shop for a tasting / brainstorming session. She gave us crayons and paper to draw out our vision, and offered her artistic suggestions. She was a great listener and a good executor. The cake turned out to be exactly what we wanted - colorful, playful, full of life, yet elegant. I would recommend Paula to anyone.


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Lunder Arts Center project on pace for January 2015 opening, uniting Lesley University in heart of Cambridge
Saturday, May 10, 2014
"Everybody asks about it," said Tom McDermott, project manager and superintendent for contractor John Moriarty & Associates, which is building the Lunder Arts Center in Porter Square. "Mostly it's used for bringing in rebar, moving the form work.
"It's not that heavy-duty as cranes go," he added in a recent interview, saying the device owned by G&C Concrete Construction of Haverhill can lift about 10,000 pounds and is important to keeping the project on track.
And when the workday is done, passersby are likely to see the crane arm's position change according to the direction of the wind, in order to prevent the possibility of it tipping over.
McDermott said the "church part" of the project will be completed first and, to stay on pace for the January 2015 move-in date for the College of Art and Design, construction crews will be working on Saturdays.
They've also enjoyed a little luck, by having relatively soft earth to excavate and "de-water."
"It's like a beach out there," he said of the abundant sand at the job site. "You couldn't ask for a better drainage material."
In contrast, just a few steps up Massachusetts Avenue, crews hired by the MBTA to increase Porter Square Station's accessibility confronted more recalcitrant earth.
"With the T elevator, they went down 8 feet and hit ledge," he said, noting that Lunder Arts Center crews have unearthed only one boulder which, McDermott pantomimed, was no bigger than a medicine ball.
The Lunder Arts Center, designed by Bruner/Cott Architects and Planners, will be the new home of the Lesley University College of Art and Design — the new name of The Art Institute of Boston, which for 100 years has helped shape the vision and career paths of artists — and will serve as a nexus for the university's myriad interdisciplinary and arts-integrative curricula.
At the center of the project was the move of the historic Old Prospect Church, which Lesley purchased in 2006. To move the 188-ton former church about 100 feet down Massachusetts Avenue, construction workers used a hydraulic system and beam rollers to slowly ferry the building to its new foundation closer to the avenue.
This is the second time the former church has been transported: The first move was in 1867, when a team of draft horses hauled the church and its contents a mile up Massachusetts Avenue from Harvard Square, over the course of 21 days.
Lesley's contractors are restoring the church building's exterior to its 19th-century glory, while the interior will house an arts library and design space. Complementing this facility will be a new terra cotta-and-glass building for art galleries and studio spaces that will occupy the former church site. The scale and detail of the church inform the new building, and its terra cotta detailing harmonizes with neighborhood brick and clapboard. The two buildings will be linked by a multistory glass entry commons.
The center bears the surname of philanthropists Peter and Paula Lunder (Lesley Class of 1959), whose transformational commitment to the university came in the form of a matching gift challenge in fall 2012.
Most recently, workers completed wood framing inside the church main building and addition, continued the layout of the climate control and ventilation system, poured concrete footings on part of the lower level and began street work at the site. Additional information about the construction is available on our website.
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Everyone has mild memory lapses from time to time. You go from the kitchen to the bedroom to get something, only to find yourself wondering what you needed. You can't find your car keys one day and your reading glasses the next.
Lapses such as these are usually just signs of a normal brain that's constantly prioritizing, sorting, storing, and retrieving all types of information. So how do you know when memory loss is abnormal and warrants evaluation by a health professional? Here are some questions to consider:
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Does the memory loss disrupt daily living? "If memory loss prevents someone from doing activities that they had no trouble handling before, like balancing a checkbook, keeping up with personal hygiene, or driving around, that should be checked," says John Hart, Jr., M.D., professor of behavioral and brain sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas and medical science director at the Center for BrainHealth.
How often do memory lapses occur? It's one thing to occasionally forget where you parked your car, but it's not normal to forget where you parked every day or to forget appointments over and over. Frequent memory lapses are likely to be noticeable because they tend to interfere with daily living.
What kinds of things are being forgotten? "It's normal to forget the name of someone you just met, but may not be normal to permanently forget the name of a close friend or relative," Hart says. "It also may not be normal to never remember meeting a person after you have spent a great deal of time with them." Most people have trouble remembering some details of a conversation, but forgetting whole conversations could signal a problem. Other red flags: frequently repeating yourself or asking the same questions in the same conversation.
Are there signs of confusion? Serious memory lapses may cause individuals to get lost in a familiar place or put something in an inappropriate place because they can't remember where it goes. Putting the car keys in the refrigerator is an example.
Is the memory loss getting worse? Memory loss that gets progressively worse over time should be evaluated by a health professional.
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