Posts tagged “Equality”
What I’ve Noticed
It’s about entitlement, stupid. Dr. Isis gives advice to a grad student who works with a scientist that won’t stop looking at her boobs. Then she responds to the commenters who suggest it’s the grad student’s fault. The AZ legislature is shit. Really, being a girl doesn’t make you bad at math. More “justice” in […]
Foundation
I’ve had Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series recommended to me a million and one times and I finally got around to reading the first book in the series, Foundation. The premise of the series is interesting – Psychohistory is a science that combines statistics and psychology to predict what large populations of people will do. A […]
What I’ve Noticed
A beautiful post on hierarchies and judgement within marginalized communities. The Skeptic’s Book of Pooh-Pooh points out an awesome news story on the danger anti-vaxers create for children in their communities. The anti-vaxers hypocrisy is also on display in their support of chemical castration for autistic boys. We can’t expect toxic products to stop coming […]
What I’ve Noticed
Pirates: some historical perspective and a bit of context. The ability to synchronize and our ability to cooperate. The World Digital Library. All kinds of interesting books, maps, and artifacts from around the world. I hope I’m this cool when I’m 100. Similarities between the anti-global warming misinformation campaign and the tobacco industry’s misinformation campaign. […]
What I’ve Noticed
The Girl in the Red Beret by Lina Mounzer. Cocorosie redoes Akon’s “I Wanna Love You.” It’s an incredible juxtaposition – same music, same setting, very different perspectives. Sex toy recycling program. They even give you a gift certificate when you send in old toys! Teen girls on Chris Brown’s abuse of Rhianna. People ask […]
Christianity isn’t concerned about women
Christianity is concerned about losing control of women’s bodies. The FDA has finally approved Plan B over the counter for teenage girls. It is very clear that the reason it wasn’t originally approved without a prescription for teenagers had everything to do with the Christian right’s terror of women’s sexuality and nothing to do with […]
What I’ve Noticed
Finding effective treatments for Lyme disease and other chronic illnesses has become much more difficult. As usual, it’s all about the money: The problem, they say, started back in 1980, when Ronald Reagan changed the rules governing how scientists (and the entities they work for) profit from their work. Where scientists used to gain fame […]