Indie sex-and-science documentary Orgasm Inc. deftly deflates the pharmaceutical industry’s hunt for a lucrative cure to female sexual dysfunction.

Fresh from a decorated festival run, Liz Canner’s movie digs into the fake disorder, also called female sexual arousal disorder, as well as the latest attempts to turn feminine sexuality into a treatable medical condition.

The basic concept is lunacy with a long legacy extending back to female hysteria and refrigerator mothers. The fact that a so-called female Viagra has been vigorously pursued by medical professionals and the pharmaceutical...

How did Lucy walk? Although the famous 3.2-million-year-old skeleton shows that she was undoubtedly an upright walker, our incomplete knowledge of her feet has fed a long-running debate about the mechanics of her stride. Now, thanks to the discovery of a single bone, scientists have found important similarities between Lucy’s feet and our own.

Reported Feb. 10 in the journal Science by University of Missouri anthropologist Carol Ward and co-authors William Kimbel and Donald Johanson of Arizona State University, the single foot bone was discovered in 2000 and comes from Hadar, Ethiopia. Of the...