Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Seattle, WA, is one of 250 public schools in the nation now offering single-sex education. No, this doesn't mean their health teachers are homophobic. Single-sex education means that boy students learn in classes with all boy students, and girl students learn in classes with all girl students. Prior to the school's conversion, in 2000, only 10% of boy students had satisfactory reading scores, one of the lowest numbers in the nation. One year into the single-sex experiment, that percentage shot up to 66%. Now, some boy students don't like this setup because there's no little ladies around to awkwardly flirt with. And some feminists don't like this setup, because it suggests that there is truly a pyschological difference between the genders. But, it's hard to argue with results. Looking back, if I had spent less time trying to look cool and make jokes in front of girls in high school, I could be a dentist or something by now.

Well, we discussed this a while ago. But, science may have found our answer. Studies show that circumcised men contract HIV through intercourse 70% less than uncircumcised men. For those of you who didn't do too well in math, that number is huge and could have major repercussions in the war against AIDS. Decades ago, Dr. H. Dam discovered that a spike in Vitamin K occurs in the 8th day after birth for all newborn males that creates blood coagulation, making this the ideal day to perform the circumcision. Maybe this could become standard practice in Africa. That's very interesting about the 8th day, specifically because of what this guy said decades before Dr. H. Dam.