Rodent bow ties?

In an essay entitled "It's a Guy Thing: Pity the poor woman who overestimates the size of a man's corpus callosum" on page 84 of the New York Times Style Magazine "Men's Fashion Spring 2010" issue, Holly Brubach summarizes Shaunti Feldhahn's book "The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions, and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace" in this way:

Feldhahn attributes many of the differences in men's and women's behavior on the job to the corpus collosum, which connects the brain's right and left hemispheres. According to one study, it's 25 percent smaller in men, with more isolated gray matter, which facilitates compartmentalizing. In women, a greater concentration of white matter relays more thoughts across various areas of the brain and makes for more efficient multitasking.

Such clear prose brings to mind H. L. Mencken's dictum that "There is always an easy solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong."

Elsewhere, but no doubt with equal authority, the same magazine issue directs our attention to the "rodent bow tie":

Biomorphic lamps, off-the-wall rooms, rodent bow ties, lo-fi rock-band T-shirts, untailored tailoring and John Lennon’s nonconformist cool all get their moment in the fashion sun. [links in original].

[Note re: "links in original". While the New York Times Style Magazine "Men's Fashion Spring 2010" issue appears gayly hyperlinked on the web site of the New York Times, and while other excellent writing by Holly Brubach is available on the web site of the New York Times, Holly Brubach's essay "It's a Guy Thing: Pity the poor woman who overestimates the size of a man's corpus callosum", on page 84 of the New York Times Style Magazine "Men's Fashion Spring 2010" issue, does not. In fact, there appears to be absolutely nothing on the web site of the New York Times to confirm your correspondent's observation that Holly Brubach's essay "It's a Guy Thing: Pity the poor woman who overestimates the size of a man's corpus callosum" appears on page 84 of the New York Times Style Magazine "Men's Fashion Spring 2010" that was delivered to our home with last Sunday's New York Times. It's as if the web site of the New York Times has decided to pretend that the essay does not exist, depriving their substantial internet readership of authoritative observations on human neuroanatomy – if not of helpful tips on taxidermy bow ties.]

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