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Stuff worth reading hoagland goes north Is the CIA on Its Way to Hacking the Sky? Can’t believe how this article doesn’t mention that the sulfur dioxide option does nothing to stop ocean acidification. Human manipulation of the climate might be the quickest way to combat global war… We are so fucked Next quarter is […]
Why your degree is worthless
Companies would rather not pay STEM professionals high salaries with lavish benefits, offer them training on the job, or guarantee them decades of stable employment. [link] So they whine and wail about fake labor shortages until the market is flooded with highly STEM graduates (trained on yours and the government’s dime). And then they argue […]
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Stuff worth reading Debilitating — But Only Moderately Painful — Migraine Attacks. Exactly this. Drawings Made with Fingerprint Patterns by Nicolas Jolly
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Stuff worth reading When Your (Brown) Body is a (White) Wonderland Actually, Miley’s dance was newsworthy. The Federal Budget Is Like Your Family’s Budget! Mothers are not ‘opting out’ – they are out of options – Opinion The revival of old fashioned hobbies is (to some extent) about maintaining identity and creativity while living in […]
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Stuff worth reading You’re a Part-Timer: How Corporate America Used the Great Recession to Turn Good Jobs Into Bad Ones. A Nation Unhinged: The Grim Realities of “The Real American War” We Don’t Even Know What We Don’t Know MAP: Global Flood Damage Could Exceed $1 Trillion Annually by 2050 Installing robust protective infrastructure that […]
Allies vs. role models
Even when the people around you are interested in stamping out oppression, if they haven’t experienced it or spent much time listening to the people they’re interested in helping, they often can’t help you. A particularly funny example from gilly‘s comment over on Tenure She Wrote. I asked my (male) PhD adviser how I should […]
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Stuff worth reading The Military Mindset Behind ‘Stop & Frisk.’ The economic and cultural dominance of Filipino sailors I love how “augmenting their masculinity” means treating women better. The opposite is often true. Gasoline lead may explain as much as 90 percent of the rise and fall of violent crime over the past half century […]