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Category: Biology
OK: I'm female AND a biologist, and looking at this one freaks ME out! I'm all in favor of appreciating the beauty of female anatomy and miracle of childbirth and all, but this pasty, long-limbed newborn doll with a detatchable...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:16 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Yikes!
One of the arguments I generally make about Web 2.0 is that, if you are an organization who happens to screw up, you should apologize and move on. Don't try to cover your tracks or shut your critics up -...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:16 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
An awesome post from Shapely Prose - written for all the good single guys out there. When you approach me in public, you are Schrödinger's Rapist. You may or may not be a man who would commit rape. I won't...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:00 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
Last week, 3QuarksDaily quoted Shane Austen with this list of "sexual assault prevention tips guaranteed to work". It reads in part, 5. If you are in an elevator and someone else gets in, DON'T ASSAULT THEM! 6. Remember, people go...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:59 AM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ephemera
I'm not really sure what to say about this strange ad. But I'm sure my readers have some ideas. Paging Dr. Isis and Zuska! Originally here (it appears to be about ten years old), now found here. *Due to...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:33 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
Earlier, I blogged about the seriously flawed Telegraph article about rape. Now Carl Zimmer has discovered that the newspaper has yanked the article from its site. No explanation, no apology - it's just gone. I feel silly that I didn't...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:57 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Wow. . . coming off the Silence is the Enemy rape awareness initiative, it's more depressing than usual to see the Telegraph's latest bad science reporting. Their story implies that rape victims deserve blame for what happens to them: Women...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 5:50 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
Today is the last day of the Silence is the Enemy fundraising drive here at BioE - when I get my proceeds I'll send them along to Doctors Without Borders, probably along with a little extra, since I don't usually...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:28 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
a ten year old rape victim from the Congo photo by Endre Vestvik Almost a month ago, a number of bloggers launched Silence is the Enemy, a blog initiative against sexual violence. Since then, we've seen a number of...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:05 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
"ultimately your target has to be to get Americans to look at a birdfeed and just fall apart." - Nicholas Kristof
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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