Report Abuse. An egg lives for around 12 hours after ovulation. Sperm can live for about five days inside the uterus, so providing those two time frames collide, it can be pretty soon after sex.
The tail arrangement is believed to have been a defensive weapon against predators. The term thagomizer was coined by Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side comic strip, in which a group of cavemen in a faux-modern lecture hall are taught by their caveman professor that the spikes were named for the late Thag Simmons.
Originally coined in the 1970s by Chester Pierce, an African-American psychiatrist at Harvard, the term âmicroaggressionâ has made a comeback in recent years. âIt has become one of the most researched areas in the professional literature of psychology,â Sue says.n November at UCLA, a group of minority students claimed that their professor committed a microaggression when he corrected a studentâs grammar in a research paper by repeatedly changing the word âindigenousâ from upper-to lower-case.