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September 27, 2007
September 19, 2007
Why There Are No Great Women Science Bloggers
Category: Burns My Shorts
Gender equity: it's not rocket science. Just review the list.
Posted by Zuska at 6:17 PM • 35 Comments •
Happy Birthday, Emoticon!
Category: Announcements
From the Chronicle News Blog... ...it will be 25 years ago tomorrow that Mr. Fahlman, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, invented the digital smiley face. After a colleague joked about a contaminated elevator on an electronic...
Posted by Zuska at 10:52 AM • 0 Comments •
September 16, 2007
Beach Wheelchair
Category: Geekalicious
Posting will be sparse to non-existent over the next week, as it has been the past few days. This is because I'm hanging with Mom for a week or so. Actually, I'm hanging with my mom and my sister at...
Posted by Zuska at 11:26 PM • 4 Comments •
September 12, 2007
The Authorities: Always Looking Out For Women
Category: Burns My Shorts
Potential academic rapists, take note: if you want to get off with just the minor inconvenience of house arrest, make sure to portray yourself as doing research of immense "societal value".
Posted by Zuska at 4:01 PM • 4 Comments •
Breast Cancer, Genetic Testing, and Public Policy
Category: Announcements
There's a wonderful three-part interview with Shobita Parthasarathy, author of Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care , over at The World's Fair. The interview is broken up into three parts: Part 1, Part...
Posted by Zuska at 3:20 PM • 0 Comments •
September 11, 2007
I Don't Know What To Say
Category: Naming Experience
Lots of my Sciblings have blogged about 9.11.01 today. I particularly recommend Abel Pharmboy's post, and the video that Orac posted if you can stand to watch it. I don't feel that I have anything meaningful to add. I felt...
Posted by Zuska at 6:33 PM • 1 Comments •
Mosquito Men
Category: Daily Struggles
Female Science Professor works with Professor Troll. Perhaps many of you have a similar colleague or acquaintance. What do you do when you constantly have to rub shoulders with Professor Troll's ilk? Like mosquitoes in summer, they buzz around strong,...
Posted by Zuska at 4:59 PM • 1 Comments •
Gender Equity and the Poor Disadvantaged Men
Category: Isn't It Ironic?
It's enough to make one weep.
Posted by Zuska at 4:23 PM • 15 Comments •
Celebrating Our Geekiness
Category: Naming Experience
I found the link to this video over at She's Such a Geek! - thanks, Charlie! Listen to one female geek's response to reading the book. I particular loved her saying that the "she" in "She's Such a Geek!" should...
Posted by Zuska at 2:30 PM • 1 Comments •
September 10, 2007
How To Train Women For Their Futures
Category: Burns My Shorts
If she insists on a career, let her know that maids are in need in all hotels and many of our finer families' homes.
Posted by Zuska at 4:59 PM • 6 Comments •
Color and Money
Category: Announcements
I saw this advertised in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Color and Money: How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War Over College Affirmative Action, by Peter Schmidt. Schmidt is a deputy editor at the Chronicle. I don't have a...
Posted by Zuska at 4:42 PM • 0 Comments •
Numbered Comments
Category: Announcements
You may notice I've modified the blog so that comments are now numbered. This may be helpful in responding to various comments in a thread, especially if the threads get long. Thanks to PZ Myers for sharing his nifty code!...
Posted by Zuska at 3:31 PM • 1 Comments •
September 7, 2007
Friday Bookshelf: James D. Watson Pens Second Historical Novel
Category: Friday Bookshelf
What really takes the cake is where Watson assigns the blame for Rosalind's inability to get the structure of DNA first.
Posted by Zuska at 4:29 PM • 15 Comments •
Women and Science Blogging at the NC Science Blogging Conference
Category: Announcements
The 2008 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference (organized by ScienceBlog's very own Bora Zivkovic) is fast approaching. Karen Ventii and I will be co-chairing a 1 hour session tentatively called "Exploring Women in Science Blogging". (This announcement also appears on...
Posted by Zuska at 12:33 AM • 3 Comments •
September 6, 2007
Researchers Claim Men Like Hot Women!
Category: Stereotypes We Know And Love
Why don't we all just watch Jerry Springer instead? We'd get the same amount of insight into human nature.
Posted by Zuska at 3:41 PM • 10 Comments •
Networked Science: Who's It Good For?
Category: What They're Saying
Call me cynical, but I'm just thinking that an arrangement which saves companies the expense of having to actually "hire researchers to meet all [their] rapidly evolving scientific needs" cannot possibly be in the best long-term interests of the scientists themselves.
Posted by Zuska at 2:55 PM • 5 Comments •
Constitution Day Is Coming Up!
Category: The Occasional Post on National Politics
I suppose Dick Cheney would naturally be exempt, not being part of the executive branch of government and all.
Posted by Zuska at 1:58 PM • 4 Comments •
September 3, 2007
Selecting An Auxiliary Brain
Category: Geekalicious
Here's the problem: I've got migraines. So I take topamax. Topamax helps decrease the occurrence of daily headache and decrease the frequency of migraine. But topamax has side effects. A really bad one is cognitive confusion. This manifests itself in...
Posted by Zuska at 3:55 PM • 13 Comments •
September 2, 2007
Unleashing Scientiae
Category: Scientiae Carnival
It's late summer, and the harvest is bountiful, and so with the contributions to Scientiae. Thanks to all of you who submitted such fabulous posts. Some of you even wrote two posts! It must be that back-to-school enthusiasm. As you...
Posted by Zuska at 6:50 PM • 9 Comments •
