Radar on Sex, Kates, and Babies

Who needs Katie Couric announcing the Suri (aka so-called spawn of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes) pics on the evening news? Bloggers (à la Celebrity Baby Blog) are still around, scooping the former NBC pixie on the Vanity Fair cover. Ah, make Walter Cronkite proud.

Radar’s back, and it’s online! As for better than ever—well, how long is ever? Resurrected printed version to come in 2007.

The NYT reports on how the scientific community is still baffled by sexual cannibalism of the praying mantises and other insects. While some spiders benefit from being eaten by increasing their chances of fertilizing the female from being on the female twice as long or putting in a “sperm plug” to prevent other male’s mixing of goods, scientists have found that mantises seem to show their unwillingness to be eaten in exchange for sex either by running away from the females or being hesitant around the “hungry” ones. What, gray areas don’t exist for sexual cannibalism? Can’t each insect species do its own thing?

Kate Moss plays "Miss X" in four sexy shorts for Agent Provocateur, who spaces out the "release" of each ad, which is, wow, just too cool.