Archive for 2013

What I read when I couldn’t get out of bed

Stuff worth reading I’d rather watch shows about teenaged girls figuring out what it means to be a monster via Epicene Cyborg IBM’s Watson is better at diagnosing cancer than human doctors Basic Income and the Atavistic Appeal of Austerity. Men are worried that women will laugh at them, while women are worried that men […]

Cefaly and migraine

Having migraine really sucks, and I’ll try just about anything to deal with this illness. One of the things I tried recently is the Cefaly, a scifi looking device I previously mocked. A lot of people seemed to be finding relief with it and a couple agencies had verified that it wouldn’t hurt me. After […]

Skirts

I have a post up over on Tenure, She Wrote about how femininity is seen as an incompetent other in my workplace. I wanted to write more about the experience people with queer genders or trans people have, but that’ll have to wait for another post.

While you’re waiting for the bus

Stuff worth reading A National Blessing Household debt is not the same as national debt Why Don’t Americans Have Bike Barriers? I like to bike in heels and skirts and avoid cars Not-so special K: big pharma wants ketamine clones to treat depression Prisons turn to computer algorithms for deciding who to parole A better […]

Things that bear repeating

sexual harassment in Academia is symptomatic of the larger-scale dysfunctionalities between the sexes in our culture, and any address of them must be grounded in the fundamental tenets of women’s liberation from Hope Jahren