@Raptor, is that an incidentally appropriate name or did you sign up just to make that comment? ;)

@bobb, no need to discount the entire article on a minor technicality. Obviously Phil was referring to a more intense ice age where the overall temperature of the Earth is significanlty reduced, and the polar ice sheets expandn etc...

Do not confuse unexplained with unexplainable.

If I had a dollar for every time science has promised me a Harry Potter invisibility cloak...

And then suddenly all these guys showed up in the yard.

Interesting, Ryan S. I've bought The Brain That Changes Itself but I'm yet to get around to reading it as my to read pile is currently taller than I am. I used to work with stroke patients and individuals who had nerves severed during surgery, and we used various devices that employed the use of electrical currents in the muscles of disused limbs to promote neurogenesis and minimise muscle wastage. I must admit I was tempted to ask some of my patients with visual neglect to draw clocks for me :)

@Egbert, if you look carefully at the article, the judge never specifies concerns about a specific gender being able to see up skirts. She only states that men probably didn't consider this problem when designing the stairs. You projected that particular sexist generalisation onto the story yourself. And before anyone states it's obvious the judge is implying that women who walk up these stairs have to be concerned about men rather than women, you should know that the idea that women are perfectly comfortable being exposed in the presence of other women is a myth. Personally I would be uncomfortable knowing anyone, man or woman could see up my skirt, and not because I assume they'll like what they see. It's just plain embarrassing.

I replaced the eye on the red side with the eye from the right side and the illusion worked just as well.

There's always one who feels the need to let everyone know that optical illusions can't fool them.

@Muzition and AntDude, the above graph shows females' least favourite colours. Blue was chosen most frequently by both genders as their favourite colour.

I don't think forced choice paradigms like making people choose a favourite and least favourite colour has good ecological validity as many adults don't have favourite colours. I know I don't.

@ Ryan S, women can also have colour blindness but it is quite uncommon. Colour blindness is carried on the X chromosome. If males inherit an X chromosome with the mutation it will be displayed in the phenotype. If women inherit 1, she will be a carrier, however if she inherits the mutation from both X chromosomes, it will be displayed in the phenotype.

Also, you have a point about gender differences in the vocabulary of colour:
"Stecklers' study in 1990 concluded that women's ability of naming colors is far more precise than men's and also they have a broader vocabulary for color names such as ecru, aquamarine, lavender, and mauve."
http://www.colormatters.com/news_spring_07/focus.html

@UpInArms, I find it terrifying and sad that you find scientific discovery and progress like this terrifying and sad.

Lol @ Ben Eshbach

If I hear of one more parent calling their daughter Ava Grace...

This Hidden program sounds like something perverts would use to spy on others.