OMG! Eating more veggies while with child can cause women to give birth to girls. How big was this study? Thirty two people? Oh. Never mind.

There's an old wives tale that a difficult pregnancy means you're having a boy, and several new studies show that male births may be slightly more risky than female births.

Yo — all those old wives tales you heard about how to make pimples go away with simple household products? All bullshit. In brief: Don't pop them [Damn. -Ed.], put toothpaste on them, but Neosporin on them, or avoid eating fried foods. [Newsweek]

There's an old wives tale that eating bananas for breakfast will help women give birth to a boy, and a new study out of England claims that, to some extent, the tale is true: having a high potassium intake as well as a high sodium intake during conception can make women more likely to mother males. The research, which…

The fun thing about that creeping insecurity that you're too old to be optimally datable is that once it sets in — 25? 27? — it never lets up! Which is why it's always good to read about some lady in her sixties who's getting more dates than she ever did in her entire life. Well, author and man magnet Andree Aelion…

On the front page of the New York Times website is a glowing profile of Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, who died of ovarian cancer in 1995. Soetero lived the bohemian '60s counter-culture dream, except she replaced all the LSD with Indonesian microfinance non-profit work. She was born in Kansas and…

Gather round, kids! It's time for another round of, "Michelle Obama: What's not to like? (Surely we can find something!)" This week it's the The New Republic profiling Barack's wife, and the primary focus is her much misunderstood sense of humor. One blogger has notably described it as Jewish...but the piece cuts…