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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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February 23, 2010
Category: Naming Experience
That is certainly a story they never told me about ol' George when I was in grade school! No sir, they just kept bringing out that cherry tree business.
Posted by Zuska at 3:57 PM • 21 Comments •
February 15, 2010
Category: That's So Class-y
When you're pushing a cart around at, say, Wegmans - or any other food palace - loading up the goodies, and finally wheeling your way to the checkout, you probably aren't thinking to yourself, "where do those employees shop for their food?"
Posted by Zuska at 6:26 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Geekalicious
I'd be willing to stand on a street corner and hand out copies of, say, tract #122. At least until some angry reader came back and beat me to death for my troubles.
Posted by Zuska at 5:16 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Announcements
Tomorrow morning Rebecca Skloot will be on WHYY's Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane. She will, of course, be talking about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. You can tune in and listen on the web here. Radio Times starts at...
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February 10, 2010
Category: What They're Saying
Arborvitae, you will recall, are supposed to be upright, hedge-like critters. Not waving their evergreen arms all about in frantic desperation.
Posted by Zuska at 6:12 PM • 9 Comments •
February 5, 2010
Category: Feminist Foremothers
Penny Richards has created a new purse, available on her Etsy site. Here's some info about it she shared with me (details about the purse construction available on the site): [the purse honors] Melba Roy, a Howard University graduate (undergrad...
Posted by Zuska at 10:08 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Burns My Shorts
She's an athlete, not a sex symbol, the shrieking harridans wail, as if women athletes could ever be just athletic.
Posted by Zuska at 3:37 PM • 81 Comments •
February 2, 2010
Category: What They're Saying
It raises some seriously interesting questions about the value of religious traditions and their meaning in a scientific community.
Posted by Zuska at 4:52 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Announcements
Be sure to catch Fresh Air whenever it airs in your local market to day, or catch the podcast. Rebecca Skloot is on today, talking about her book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which, as I hope you know,...
Posted by Zuska at 1:43 PM • •
February 1, 2010
Category: Tales From The Coal Patch
Well, with a little pork. My mother used to make haluski, which is basically chopped cabbage fried in butter and served over boiled noodles. In the old days, the bubbas made their own noodles, but we used store-bought packaged. As...
Posted by Zuska at 11:11 PM • 23 Comments •
