Scientific American has named Mariette DiChristina as its first-ever female editor-in-chief, leading us to wonder about the fate of a certain lady-bashing writer.

Jesse Bering, he of the hilarious penis column fame, is at it again. This time, we learn everything we ever (or perhaps never) wanted to know about testicles.

• Leighton Meester made the September cover of Harper's Bazaar, and inside the magazine printed digitally-altered photos of the actress, intended to show how she will age. At 23, Meester is already a supporter of Botox. [WWD]

"And I should say, if you're still unconvinced and you've any doubt about acts of social aggression occurring in practice, have a gander at the current topics of ongoing conversation among the girls of Jezebel.com." [Scientific American]

Scientists at Tel Aviv University claim to have created a computer program that can recognize human attractiveness. Here's what they did: they had thirty men and women look at 100 images of young, white women and judge the "beauty" of each image. Then, according to EurekAlert, "Based on human preferences, the machine…

Apparently "Jezebel" isn't a word associated only with the Bible, Southern whores, "tragic mulattos", contemporary music or, uh, girly celeb/fashion blogs: It's also totally about building bombs! According to a recruitment notice that appeared in Scientific American in 1956, "Jezebel" was the name given to a bare plutonium…