Another modern-day Tiresias speaks out...

...but this time it's not about who--men or women?-- enjoys sex more, but rather about the bias against high-achieving women in Science.

Ben Barres' experience of life as both a woman and a man-- a gift of Science, not the gods-- makes him uniquely qualified to speak to this gender controversy... and he has been thinking about it ever since Harvard President Larry Summers made his unfortunate remark about the lack of women in Science.

Read Barres' perspective...

photo: from NYTimes, courtesy of Ben Barres