Instead of a hippocampus, a pink brain has an area called Shatner's Bassoon, that makes us better at housework. That's just science.
Initially couldn't believe this. But yes, the @sciencemuseum has an exhibition telling girls they have "pink brains"pic.twitter.com/pGHEI9T3V7
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There's a great Infinite Monkey Cage ep on the science of sex differences. Also features fact 8% of sheep are gay:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07lfrjs …
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@wuthering_alice@sciencemuseum but it's also telling boys they have blue ones. -
both rubbish imo.
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if you're going to show gendered brains then it make sense to use those colours. It's immediate and obvious
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Point me to the evidence for gendered brains.
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Didn't say there was any. Just said made sense to use those colours if that's what yr showing
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take it up with the
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I will do. Their Twitter feed says they're writing a blog on it, which I'll RT.
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I look forward to reading that. The idea of 'boys/girls' brains is... daft.
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@robfordmancs@sciencemuseum isn't the idea that boys have blue ones just as strange? -
Yes! With more characters I'd have added that…then again, neurobollocks is usually used to denigrate women, not men
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well obv I'm just a cold being with no emotional intelligence, so I wouldn't have even considered that ;-)
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On the plus side, that display suggests you're genetically advantaged when it comes to recognising fruit.
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but also, the blue brain section is a bit smaller than the pink one I note.
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No! Where's that image from?
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Taken by a campaigner. Can't find a source so I didn't post tip now but the museum has responded:https://twitter.com/sciencemuseum/status/775718488476356610 …
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wowsers... thought i couldn't be any more angry after libya and bake-off this morning...
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@CCriadoPerez No it doesn't. It has a machine that says what sex your brain is. Colour irrelevant except to feminists. -
Bad news for Farrow & Ball.
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