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attackeng.jpg 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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19 Questions With Zuska

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The place where I come from...is a small town. Coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains

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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.

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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.

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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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Hungry for Dessert? Talk to Lab Cat!

Use the fork as your scale. That's a normal-sized fork. That's NOT a normal-sized piece of cake.

All the Soda Pop You Can Drink - But Don't Tell Anyone

I spent a lot of time on airplanes in the last few weeks, and so I spent a lot of time reading in-flight magazines. Southwest's Spirit is not so bad. In the pages of the September edition I learned about...

Happy Birthday, Emoticon!

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...

Sweating in Gettysburg

I'm supposed to be enjoying the music at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival this afternoon. But it's a hundred and ten, hundred and ten in the shade. And I don't know if I can even drag my ass out there for...

They're Younger Every Year...

Thanks to the Chronicle for pointing me to Beloit College's annual Mind-Set List, which reminds us just how out of touch we old fogies are with this year's crop of first-year students. As the Chronicle notes: The Mind-Set List draws...

Sciblings In NYC Bars: More Photo Evidence

You know, bad karaoke can happen to good Sciblings. But however distressing some people might find the proceedings, other people will always blend tastefully with the surroundings. Kevin and Karmen just sat back and took it all in. As Chris...

Sciblings With Bogie

Sciblings in NYC....we came, we met, we ate and drank, we talked nonstop, thanks to Seed and Adam Bly. I did not puke on Adam Bly's shoes after all. He is a very nice guy. And has a beautiful home...

A Bit of Feminist Humor

Oh, the mighty struggle of sperm to fertilize egg!

The Ultimate Geekalicious Pocket Protector Nerd

The drama and pathos makes me nearly weep that I do not regularly wear white men's shirts

Harry Potter Book Shows Up In Philadelphia

Now why didn't I order a copy from some nefarious online site?????

Two-Year Blogiversary

How do I live up to my original promise?

California Haz Cheez!

Today I wish I were a mad scientist of cheese.

TSZ is Rated R!!!

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...

Bluegrass in Gettysburg

Unfortunately, there are a lot of "mean woman songs" in bluegrass.

Coffee Talk

Why can't you be more like the Kocerka girls?

Spring Bloomtime at Jenkins Arboretum

The dark cynic in me says: visit now, while you can

Where Are My Minions When I Need Them, Dammit!

I am for damn sure if I had minions, I would not be carrying kitty poop around.

Bleeding Heart

I needed something to lighten up my day today. Maybe you do, too. How about this picture from my garden? See, even my garden knows I'm a bleeding heart liberal....

I've Been Called A "Thinking Blogger"

"You may be bright, but you're a physical moron!"

What a True Geekstress Looks Like

I wish I had a circuit-board corset like Ellen Spertus.

Order of the Science Scouts

It's not yet clear how "Above Average Physique" is to be determined

Off To See The...Blogger Wizards in North Carolina!

I'm off to BlogTogether, the North Carolina Science Bloggers Conference, this weekend. And in a perversely un-blogger like move, I am NOT taking my laptop with me so that I can blog minute-by-minute from the conference. I plan to be...

Our Smiling Faces

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...

A Very Darwiny Weekend

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...

Holiday Gift Guide

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....

How To Prevent Addiction

Negative geekhood stereotypes abound - geek boys have no social skills. Geek girls are ugly. But The Onion has recently put forth a new, semi-positive geek stereotype. It seems that now, geekhood is a protection against addiction. Thanks to my...

It's Time to Plant Bulbs and Deal With Deer!

...the deer, ashamed of the havoc and destruction their increasing numbers have wreaked upon the globe...

A Moron in Utrecht

...what academic fields are uncool, and why?

Why I Love Mr. T

It's Friday, and I've had two whole days this week without migraine, plus one day with a headache that only lasted an hour. So far today (9:16 a.m. as I write) I do not have a headache and the sun...

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