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Hot Stuff: Body Temperature Tracking and Ovulatory Cycles

April 22, 2017

For the past eight months I’ve been tracking my temperature every minute using small, wireless sensors. I work in a lab that recently showed minute-by-minute body temperature can tell you fascinating things about female physiology, at least in mice. Using temperature, we can tell what day a mouse will ovulate, whether or not it will become pregnant within…

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Ahnjili Zhuparris: Menstrual Cycles, 50 Cent, and Right Swipes

October 6, 2016

Ahnjili Zhuparris shares her experiment examining the menstrual cycle’s influence on her day-to-day behaviour by using browser plugins to track variations in her interactions with different websites. She discovered interesting changes across several platforms, including how she browsed Facebook, swiped in Tinder, and listened to music on YouTube.