Nonetheless, the recent availability of egg freezing does provide one more viable option for talented women who want to become future leaders and future moms.

CNN: Women, consider freezing your eggs

From fetching everyone's fish and chips, slathered with vinegar not ketchup, he moved up to more particular orders: a one-egg omelette for Ringo, cheese-and-cucumber sandwiches for George, and for John caviar and chocolate cake.

ECONOMIST: Neil Aspinall | The

One surprising effect of egg freezing is that it makes women more open to using science to explore alternate routes to creating their families.

WSJ: Why I Froze My Eggs (And You Should, Too)

He speculates that one reason why it may be more difficult to clone monkeys and humans is because the egg cells are more fragile than those of other species.

WSJ: Experiment Brings Human Cloning One Step Closer

Some researchers have framed the issue as a chicken-or-egg conundrum, wondering whether pot smoking leads to psychosis or whether underlying psychosis makes one more likely to smoke pot.

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The government is therefore interested in discovering more about the beasts, so as not to kill the shark that lays the golden egg (though one recent finding is that whale sharks, unlike many of their relatives, actually give birth to live young, rather than laying eggs).

ECONOMIST: Whale sharks