Comments on: 2 Strange Effects of a Bad Economy

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:40:06 +0000

Normal sperm only carry one chromosome, an X or a Y. The Y chromosome is smaller than the X, making a Y-carrying sperm lighter than and X-carrying sperm, therefore making the Y-carrier faster.

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:37:26 +0000

Normal sperm only carry one chromosome, an X or a Y. The sperm containing the Y would be faster because the Y chromosome is smaller than the X chromosome. And I go to mental floss to learn new things…

By: Joe Manausa

Joe Manausa — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:40:09 +0000

Diana, I find this, if true, to be totally counter-intuitive. You would think that high stress would result in a higher mortality rate to both the born and the unborn, but I guess not having to work can be stress relieving. Thanks for the thought of the day.

By: August

August — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:39:40 +0000

The hyperlinked word “research” and the phrase “studying health and economic shifts” are totally not working for me. I don’t know if it’s just me, but nothing happens when I click on them. I’m not having any such problem in any other article.

By: Sawicki

Sawicki — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:27:56 +0000

My stepdad has taken up smoking again because of “stress” dealing with money issues since his job cut his hours. So it seems people would become MORE unhealthy before losing their jobs completely and no longer having any money to buy cigs and alcohol.