In 2011, we found out that bisexual women tend to be more depressed and anxious than their straight counterparts, possibly due to bisexual stigma, researchers surmised. Now a new study shows that bisexual women are also more likely to be sexually and physically abused by their (often male) partners.

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Anthony Gordon

If you haven't been to a Cal Academy NightLife event, tonight should be one of your New Year's resolutions. Featuring half price admission, plentiful cocktails, interesting bites to eat, and live music, in addition to all the fascinating exhibitions (without the screaming children running around), it's one of the raddest and most informative happenings on a Thursday night.

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Courtesy of the Exploratorium

The Embarcadero has seen a fair bit of controversy in recent years. There were tense negotiations over how much leeway the city would give the America's Cup race, a downright nasty political fight over the 8 Washington project, and now some residents are objecting to development plans for a new Golden State Warriors arena. But the waterfront will be gaining one tenant this year that we're pretty sure everyone will love, and that's the Exploratorium. More »

Richard Haick

With all the talk of climate change, unchecked nanotech, and over-fished oceans, it's kind of a shame that people forget about the old-school catastrophic scenarios -- volcanoes, man, plagues of things. And most apocalyptic of all, that old dinosaur-killer: impact from big space stuff.

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Maybe you think you're a top-notch drink-maker because you took an online class, or because you can tell the difference between Ancient Age and Maker's Mark in a blind taste test. But do you know much about the what, where, and who of your hooch? We didn't think so. Learn the science behind your favorite libations at "The Science of Distilling," co-produced by INFORUM, a division of the Commonwealth Club, and the Bay Area Science Festival.

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Republican congressman Todd Akin recently made the statement that if a woman is "legitimately raped" she can't get pregnant. He was referring to an erroneous idea that the vagina has the magical ability to eject unsolicited sperm. Interestingly, this theory was not cooked up by the currently campaigning GOP.

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Cultural institutions in San Francisco continually search for new acquisitions. Alexis Coe brings you the most important, often wondrous, sometimes bizarre, and occasionally downright vexing finds each week.

Last month, a crane operator was digging 110 feet below street level when an unusual rock in both shape and color gave him pause. Brandon Valasik called over his supervisor from the Transbay Transit Center, and in a subsequent whirlwind, nearly every publication in California excitedly reported the find to be a wooly mammoth tooth.

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This is President Obama, obviously

We get a lot of e-mails at SF Weekly, some delightful, some boring, and some that are downright baffling. Jonathon Keats' Epigenetic Cloning Agency falls into the latter camp, promising to duplicate famous people, including Barack Obama, Lady Gaga, and Jesus Christ. Which raises the question: What?

This isn't the first time Keats, an experimental philosopher and artist, has turned art and science on its head. He opened a photosynthetic restaurant for plants, exhibited extraterrestrial abstract art, and presented the nation's first Ouija voting booth in Berkeley, so it's not surprising that he's attempting to genetically engineer God. Still: What?

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Chip Scheuer

"Land Sharks," the creation of artist and maker Todd Williams

The Discovery Channel's "Shark Week" is the Carnival of nature programming. There's just something about the big fish: It's like a festive, temporary reprieve from those societal rules developed over centuries of Catholic influence. Only it's documentaries of sharks. (Maybe the reprieve is in being able to cheer for the Jerk of the Seas for a week.) In any event, the shark has become acquainted in our culture with some kind of festivity, which is harnessed in Sharktoberfest.

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The Beastie Boys wrote about the sound of science, but what about the look of it? As we well know San Francisco is crawling with design geeks, but what about all our science-loving friends? Where they hiding at? And what if the two greats -- design and science -- were brought together in a monthly series?

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