June 4, 2009
.....I am really a humorist at heart, and I like feminism and humor together, but some things just aren't funny. Like misogyny. Like murdering doctors and trying to deprive women of their right to health care. Racism, sexism, discrimination, and idiocy in the name of religion are not funny to me…
June 4, 2009
Totally stolen from Effect Measure where you can see another Michele Bachmann bit as well.
June 4, 2009
This is for all you nascent researchers about to head off to remote places to engage in your very first fieldwork and for all you eco-tourists or educational travelers about to embark on a trip through strange lands afar....
Here at Quiche Moraine
June 4, 2009
PZ's Minions are almost there. Go here to get the specs, then click through. The target site is under a lot of stress, so be gentle.
June 4, 2009
Legal experts are largely undivided in the opinion that Norm Coleman's Minnesota Supreme Court bid to overturn a lower judicial panel's decisions regarding the vote count in the Minnesota Senate race is senseless and has no chance whatsoever of winning.
This opinion was widely held prior to the…
June 4, 2009
Kill Bill and Kung Fu star David Carradine has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room on Thursday.
Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body.
There is no official determination, but the word is…
June 4, 2009
I would like to go into a little more detail about the rape switch which is being discussed here as well as the statistical trend in rape rates in the US being discussed here
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It has been shown again and again that large numbers of males will carry out what by anyone's definition is rape, under…
June 4, 2009
In this short talk from TED U, Joachim de Posada shares a landmark experiment on delayed gratification -- and how it can predict future success. With priceless video of kids trying their hardest not to eat the marshmallow.
Joachim de Posada's infectious energy and humor have turned him into a…
June 3, 2009
Speaking at a London girls' school, Michelle Obama makes a passionate, personal case for each student to take education seriously. It is this new, brilliant generation, she says, that will close the gap between the world as it is and the world as it should be.
Michelle Obama's life as First Lady…
June 3, 2009
A custom here in Minnesota is to dangle a light bulb near the water meter or any other water-carrying pipes that are in your unheated basement. You don't need a switch. You just have a light socket on a wire, and at the beginning of winter you screw in a 100 watt light bulb, and at the end of…
June 3, 2009
One fall afternoon ... I was summoned to... a windowless room on an upper floor, where men dressed in crisp white garments instructed me to remove all of my clothes. ... four-inch metal pins were affixed... to my vertebrae at regular intervals from my neck down. I was positioned against a wall;…
June 3, 2009
Kaki King, the first female on Rolling Stone's "guitar god" list, rocks out to a full live set at TED2008, including her breakout single, "Playing with Pink Noise." Jaw-dropping virtuosity meets a guitar technique that truly stands out.
Kaki King combines jaw-dropping guitar work with dreamy,…
June 2, 2009
This question is shorthand for a larger and more nuanced set of questions that has emerged over the last 24 hours here and here as people engage in this very interesting and important discussion about rape, especially wartime rape and related post-apocalyptic rape cultures.
"The switch" is a term…
June 2, 2009
... is not entirely accurate scientifically, but it is very inspiring.
Hat tip: Miss Cellania
And while you are over at Miss Cellania's place, check out this scary video.
June 2, 2009
PZ Myers has called for help on this one, as it's a tough cookie. One New Snow Dot Com has a crazy yahooistic poll asking your opinion on LGBT Pride Month.
Check out PZ's site for the state of the poll earlier today, then click through to vote.
June 2, 2009
Hat Tip: Miss Cellania
June 2, 2009
Or to put it more accurately, yet another study seems to show that girls learn from their teachers, parents, and peers that they are not supposed to be good at math. Sterotypes can be fulfilled. Pleas stop doing that, everyone.
Here is some press on this story.
University of Wisconsin-Madison…
June 2, 2009
Carnival of Evolution #12 is up and swimming at Deep Sea News, and it's a good one.
June 2, 2009
I am having lunch in an eatery, a cafeteria sort of place, where you get your food, pay at the cash register, and sit down somewhere. At one table is a woman reading. At another table there is a young man eating a muffin. At another table is a pair of women having a quiet conversation. At…
June 2, 2009
-Activists concerned by this year's escalation of sexual violence in eastern Congo are trying to turn up the heat on those benefitting--directly or indirectly--from illicit mineral extractions.
"Conflict minerals power our entire electronic industry," John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough…
June 2, 2009
Bachmann implies that killing doctors and other terrorist acts is the expression of a "difference in opinion," and that people who are against killing doctors is merely an "interest group".
She calls for the investigation of those who would call right wing killers "terrorists."
Read more here.…
June 2, 2009
The blog carnival Scientia Pro Publica is up at Pro-Science.
June 1, 2009
Expanding on the discussion from here ...
In the paper Anthropology's "Fierce" Yanomami: Narratives of Sexual Politics in the Amazon, Sharon Tiffany and Kathleen Adams provide the following opening passage:
Imagine a society in which one woman in every three is raped, usually by a man she knows,…
June 1, 2009
A repost, continuing along the lines of bashing the shell.
Having examined Learning the bash Shell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) (see here, here, and here), it is now time to turn to a more advanced reference to help you geek out on your Linux computer. If you want to have only one book on bash,…
June 1, 2009
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June 1, 2009
Please read the following vignette of an actual incident.
I am a scientist observing the culture of the Namoyoma people. I am sitting in a shady spot just outside the village, writing up some notes, and I observe a disturbing event. Four men are trying to drag a young woman from the road into…
June 1, 2009
.. this is being reported by the BBC. The plane has 226 people flying out of Rio de Janeiro to france. An automatic mesage was received from the plan regarding a "short circuit" following turbulence, suggesting that the aircraft was struck by lightning.
Since this is a disappearance of an…
May 31, 2009
Erratum published in the Times Observer:
An errant classified "personal" ad which appeared in Thursday's Times Observer has drawn the attention of law enforcement officials.
A person from Warren placed the ad, which apparently alludes to the wish that President Obama meet an untimely end by…
