{"id":5357,"date":"2009-08-13T10:27:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T14:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2009-08-13T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T14:27:19","slug":"review-how-sex-works-by-dr-sharon-moalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/review-how-sex-works-by-dr-sharon-moalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: <em>How Sex Works<\/em>, by Dr. Sharon Moalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My review of this book is now online, over at <a title=\"The Book Book review: 'How Sex Works'\" href=\"http:\/\/thebookbook.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/sharon-moalemhow-sx-works.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Book Book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Short version:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Non-fiction, written by a neurogeneticist and evolutionary biologist.<\/li>\n<li>Based on fairly current research. <em>Informative<\/em>. (Especially on the question of what makes you turn your head at someone, or not &#8212; at least if they&#8217;re within sniffing range.)<\/li>\n<li>Not as provocative as you might imagine, not as clever as the chapter titles might suggest&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;but not bad. <em>Okay<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One issue has already come up, related to my review rather than to the book itself. I wouldn&#8217;t mind hearing from others about it. Which is: Did I go too far in using asterisks to hide certain keywords (including the title&#8217;s most important word) from the hungry, Google-fed appetites of spammers, link farmers, and so on?<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know. Thought about it for weeks, in fact &#8212; and finally decided to err on the side of caution, mostly since I&#8217;m not the unlucky soul who&#8217;d be responsible for scrubbing away all the comment spam, and\/or turning comment moderation on.<\/p>\n<p>Opinions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My review of this book is now online, over at The Book Book. Short version: Non-fiction, written by a neurogeneticist and evolutionary biologist. Based on fairly current research. Informative. (Especially on the question of what makes you turn your head at someone, or not &#8212; at least if they&#8217;re within sniffing range.) Not as provocative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,95,37,266],"tags":[265,1203,1362,1363,1364],"class_list":{"0":"post-5357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-themissus","7":"category-science-medicine","8":"category-onlineworld","9":"category-book-reviews-writing_cat","10":"tag-the-book-book","11":"tag-how-sex-works","12":"tag-dr-sharon-moalem","13":"tag-dealing-with-comment-spam","14":"tag-bending-over-backwards","15":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-1op","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5361,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}