Friday Bookshelf: The Canon
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Natalie Angier totally gets it about the Joy of Science.
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June 29, 2007
But She's So Cute!
Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
Maybe this is why there's such a strong myth that hot women don't do science.
Posted by Zuska at 5:18 PM • 5 Comments •
Impolite Atheists - My New Role Models
Category: Isn't It Ironic?
If it's good enough for Richard Dawkins and the atheists, it's good enough for Zuska.
Posted by Zuska at 2:30 PM • 104 Comments •
June 28, 2007
I'm Sick of Being Sick
Category: Making Disability Visible
Prolactinomas are benign tumors and relatively easily treated, but still, I'm hoping for B.
Posted by Zuska at 6:04 PM • 14 Comments •
June 27, 2007
Future Weather
Category: Geekalicious
It's tax deductible!
Posted by Zuska at 4:33 PM • 0 Comments •
Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position - A Workshop
Category: Workshops and Conferences
Applications are due August 1, 2007.
Posted by Zuska at 4:09 PM • 0 Comments •
June 25, 2007
TSZ is Rated R!!!
Category: Friday Fare
It seems all the Science Bloggers are doing it... ...submitting their blogs for rating at this site. I am so proud to say TSZ came up with an R rating. Mingle2 - Online Dating Bora has an NC-17 but he's...
Posted by Zuska at 7:19 PM • 5 Comments •
June 24, 2007
Thinking of Denice, One Year Later
Category: Naming Experience
It's a real understatement to say that Denice Denton was a trailblazer.
Posted by Zuska at 9:05 AM • 1 Comments •
June 22, 2007
Friday Bookshelf: Women in Science: Meeting Career Challenges
Category: Friday Bookshelf
It is possible to be a scientist and a feminist, but one is rarely the same type of scientist one was before feminism.
Posted by Zuska at 4:09 PM • 2 Comments •
Results Almost Certainly Apply To Females As Well!
Category: Who Needs To Study Women?
The most important publications in 70 years!
Posted by Zuska at 3:12 PM • 13 Comments •
June 21, 2007
Maria Klawe is a Skateboarder!
Category: Geekalicious
It's how she commutes from her home to her office!
Posted by Zuska at 5:35 PM • 1 Comments •
Poetry for Physicists?
Category: Geekalicious
>"Physicists talk in metaphor all the time,"
Posted by Zuska at 5:12 PM • 2 Comments •
Eight Things You Weren't Dying To Know
Category: Memes
"Your accent is so interesting; what country are you from?"
Posted by Zuska at 4:44 PM • 7 Comments •
June 20, 2007
Some News From WEPAN's Conference
Category: Conference Report
I wasn't able to attend the WEPAN national conference this year, and I really missed going. So I was glad that Carol Muller of MentorNet wrote to the WEPAN listserv today with a mini-conference report/follow-up. She covered three topics: the...
Posted by Zuska at 8:25 PM • 0 Comments •
Who In The World Cares About Gender Equity In Science?
Category: Geekalicious
Let's hope Google always and only decides to use its power for good...
Posted by Zuska at 7:58 PM • 1 Comments •
June 19, 2007
Ashley Likes Science! But Not Isabella
Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
Do girly-girl names doom her to a life without math and science?
Posted by Zuska at 8:11 PM • 15 Comments •
An Update
Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
It's either this, or all gardening and no blogging.
Posted by Zuska at 5:23 PM • •
June 15, 2007
Friday Bookshelf - The Second X
Category: Friday Bookshelf
Oh my god I wrote "tampon" on a public blog.
Posted by Zuska at 5:46 PM • 3 Comments •
June 14, 2007
What's Blogging For, Anyway?
Category: Naming Experience
What do I think I'm supposed to be doing here?
Posted by Zuska at 11:15 PM • •
June 13, 2007
Does Brownback Really Reject Science?
Category: ID Schoolhouse Crusade for Christ
They want their vaccines and their Designer, too.
Posted by Zuska at 3:11 PM • 6 Comments •
Where Are the Joy of Science Discussion Posts?
Category: Joy of Science
I'd say procrastination, but then you'd ask, "why?"
Posted by Zuska at 11:43 AM • 0 Comments •
June 11, 2007
"I Support Gender Equity In Principle..."
Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
Go right ahead, discriminate your hearts out.
Posted by Zuska at 6:38 PM • 63 Comments •
June 8, 2007
Friday Bookshelf: Woman: An Intimate Geography
Category: Friday Bookshelf
I've spent years collecting a mini-library of books on gender and science & engineering.
Posted by Zuska at 4:07 PM • 6 Comments •
June 6, 2007
The Playing Field Will Never Be Equal: Gender Equity For Physicists
Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
Everything can be blamed on the kids!
Posted by Zuska at 8:55 PM • 73 Comments •
Joy of Science Week 4 Reading Summaries
Category: Joy of Science
Method and object can no longer be separated. And other stuff.
Posted by Zuska at 4:44 PM • 2 Comments •
June 5, 2007
Joy of Science - A Delay, And Lame Excuses
Category: Joy of Science
No one should have to read Donna Haraway when it's so nice outside.
Posted by Zuska at 3:16 PM • 0 Comments •
June 3, 2007
Catherine T. Hunt's Quote To Live By
Category: Role Models
...negotiation via phone call from the Jersey shore in my bathing suit...
Posted by Zuska at 7:28 PM • 2 Comments •
A Case of Egregious TV Criticism
Category: Burns My Shorts
But will there be equal opportunity chastisement?
Posted by Zuska at 6:24 PM • 4 Comments •
June 1, 2007
7th Scientiae Up For Your Reading Pleasure!
Category: Why Aren't You Reading This?
Yes, it's Scientiae Carnival time again! FemaleCSGradStudent has asked us "How We Are Hungry", and has collated and contextualized a most interesting set of responses. Maybe you want to go visit Kat on a Wire and leave her a comment....
Posted by Zuska at 12:00 PM • 1 Comments •
