Phone flirts. New sociobiological research conducted over four months in a Liverpool pub suggests that men flaunt their cell phones in public as if they were “lekking” — a term I just learned from the article, from animal behavior terminology, referring to competitive mating displays. The degree to which the subjects showed off their toys was proportional to the density of the male audience. From other aspects of their research, the investigatorsconclude that women would be more attracted to the flaunters, but this last seemed an inferential stretch to me. New Scientist And Lionel Tiger explores the sociobiological significance of the visit to the nail salons that seem so ubiquitous. New York Press