Mouse Party

When anti-vivisectionists talk about computer models, I guess they had this in mind. The University of Utah has made available a wonderful little flash animation where you can see the effects of cocaine, alcohol, and a host of other drugs on the brain at a molecular level. Fun and educational! (link)

2 comments July 8th, 2007

Test kit sniffs your daughter’s knickers

Now over to the wonderfully libertarian Brick House Security, from which you can buy an alarming array of equipment not found at your local Tesco. Chief among these in terms of creepiness is the Check Mate Semen Detection Test Kit, which promises to:

Put an end to the nightmare of suspicion and doubt caused by the infidelity of a cheating spouse or of a sexually active teen.

For a measly $49.95, you can buy ten vials of a reagant that turns purple when in contact with an enzyme called acid phosphatase, found in large amounts in seminal fluid. Seems simple enough. But here’s the crux: what if you’re a suspicious woman trying to catch out a cheating husband? No problem!

On Sunday morning he left the house and told you he was going to play golf. Then, when he came home and took a shower, you grabbed his underwear and did the test. If you detected semen, what is he going to say?

Well, I imagine he might say: “I whipped one off in the shower before I left”, shortly before adding: “and you’re a freak with no respect for my privacy, goodbye.”. On the contrary, if you’re a man testing your wife’s dirty underwear, and you get a positive result, what’s to say it’s not yours? Especially, as the site points out, that a woman can exude traces of semen for up to 72 hours after sex.

Of course, this would be unprotected sex. If your wife is practising extra-marital safe sex, or your daughter is stuck on third base, you just wasted fifty bucks. It’s a wonderful system that will either confirm your paranoia or leave it brewing, but certainly won’t end it.

Perhaps if you spent the fifty dollars taking your wife out to dinner, you’d be able to worry a little less.

1 comment July 8th, 2007