Larry Summers, Call Your Publicist The Los Angeles Times reports that all six members of CalTech's 2005 chemical engineering class are female. The group, says reporter Valerie Reitman, "makes a strong case against Harvard President Lawrence Summers' controversial hypothesis that men are innately more proficient in math and science."

She adds: "Interest in math- and science-related majors among women is on the rise at universities across the country. They earned 58% of the undergraduate degrees in life sciences, such as biology and chemistry, 47% in math and 40% in physical sciences, according to 2000 figures, the latest available from the National Science Foundation."

Do you sometimes get the feeling that, in about two years, Larry Summers' theory on the innate differences between men and women explaining the shortage of women in science is going to look not just wrong, but like something out of another era entirely....  ¶ 8:38 AM