readings in psychology for september 18th 2010

Here are some of the things I am reading today:

Early puberty in girls linked to father absence

“Girls in homes without a biological father are more likely to hit puberty at an earlier age, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health.”

our innerclock and RODS

“We run our modern lives largely by the clock, from the alarms that startle us out of our slumbers and herald each new workday to the watches and clocks that remind us when it’s time for meals, after-school pick-up and the like.”

brain killing proteins

“WHEN the evidence suggested that the baffling “spongiform” brain disorders Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), kuru and scrapie could not be transmitted by a virus or bacterium, the neurologist Stanley Prusiner put forward a novel type of infectious agent as the cause: a rogue protein. It was an idea considered so outrageous that Prusiner was ridiculed.”