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Zuska is the kick-ass alter-ego of Suzanne E Franks. When not dispensing Zuska's wisdom, Suzanne can often be found gardening, reading, or having one of her thrice-weekly migraines.
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You will be wanting to read my excellent essay, 'Suzy the Computer' vs. 'Dr. Sexy': What's a Geek Girl to Do When She Wants to Get Laid? in She's Such a Geek! Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff.
If you have not yet figured out why you shoud not be using terms like "hard science" and "soft skills", then you absolutely need to read Telling Stories About Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity in NWSA Journal v. 16 No. 1, 2004 (Re)Gendering Science Fields.
You should also read They Blinded Me With Science: Misuse and Misunderstanding of Biological Theory, an excellent critique of Thornhill and Palmer's nonsense about rape as an evolutionary strategy. You can find it in Burack and Josephson's must-read tome, Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives.
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December 20, 2006
Category: Why Aren't You Reading This?
The 29th Carnival of Feminists is up at The Imponderabilia of Actual Life, and here's one of the categories: Sexism: In which we look at examples of sexism from all over the world - sometimes blatant, occasionally subtle, often insidious....
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December 19, 2006
Category: Why Aren't You Reading This?
If you enjoy reading Inky Circus, then you are probably going to enjoy the latest endeavor from the women who bring you that blog. That is, Inkling Magazine - subtitled, "On the Hunch That Science Rocks!" I particular like this...
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Category: Manifestoes
The text is almost always more than just the text.
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December 18, 2006
Category: Friday Fare
Check out the Scienceblogger group portrait! It's clickable and it's cool! It also appears in the December/January issue of Seed Magazine, which you can get for free if you subscribe to Seed (thus getting 7 issues for the price of...
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Category: Memes
It's the year in review, by taking the first sentence of the first blog post of each month.
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December 15, 2006
Category: Friday Fare
The weekend's entertainment slate is All-Darwin, All Weekend. Just in from Netflix is Inherit the Wind, which Mr. Zuska and I will view either this evening or Sunday evening. Saturday afternoon we are planning to visit the Darwin exhibit at...
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Category: Daily Struggles
razib has his head so far up his ass he can see his stomach.
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December 13, 2006
Category: Ministry of Science and Culture
...in the Right world, global warming does not exist.
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December 12, 2006
Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
There were nine penises on the Iraq Study Group, so bias clearly isn't an issue here.
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December 11, 2006
Category: Friday Fare
The Chronicle of Higher Education published a little tongue-in-cheek holiday gift guide in the December 8 issue. I really liked this item: the Scientific Integrity Calendar, published by the Union of Concerned Scientists and available at their website....
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