Category: Blog I Am Reading Today
A thousand years ago, when I was a graduate student, we often used to grumble and joke amongst ourselves about the "sacred priesthood of science".
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Posted by Zuska at 6:55 PM • 48 Comments •
Category: Burns My Shorts
This truly craptastic pedagogical experiment is no better than the current repugnant series of ads for T-Mobile "Mobile Makeover" ads with Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Posted by Zuska at 4:19 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: Gendering Technology
Cooking is a "primitive protection racket" in which men agree to protect women's food supply in return for being fed so they can just hang out and do manly shit. A Harvard professor says so on Bloggingheads.tv!
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Posted by Zuska at 12:37 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: Geekalicious
As Raymond notes in his preface, the audience he had in mind for his book is aesthetes, and "the essential 'facts' of the irons are in the photographs."
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Posted by Zuska at 2:29 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Geekalicious
Question: Did you know that there are National Historic Chemical Landmarks?
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Posted by Zuska at 9:07 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Burns My Shorts
Because, what with our vaginas and all, our computing needs are so, so different from those of men.
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Posted by Zuska at 12:22 PM • 32 Comments •
Category: Geekalicious
Ironing is women's work. And women's work, we know, has nothing to do with engineering or technology. Irons are not technology; they are domestic appliances. Collect a bunch of them, though, and they start looking like technological art objects. Then...
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Posted by Zuska at 6:51 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Geekalicious
Mac commercials depend upon the stereotype of the PC user as a geeky un-cool white dude.
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Posted by Zuska at 4:16 PM • 31 Comments •
Category: Burns My Shorts
Rarely, it happens that I am left speechless....
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Posted by Zuska at 3:07 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Gendering Technology
From the AWIS Washington Wire: A new collection of essays, Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering, explores how taking gender into account in the areas of science, medicine, and engineering can enhance human knowledge. Inside Higher Ed has a conversation...
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Posted by Zuska at 9:02 AM • 8 Comments •