Just another Manic Monday. Links for you. Science:
Boys and Girls and Math and Why Dr. Isis is Bored to Tears with John Tierney
Female Teachers' Math Anxiety Negatively Affects Female Students
Fiona Fox - Genocide, Swine Flu and the Problems with Science Journalism
Who's the Audience for Tierney's Shtick?
Other:
"Money is a spreadsheet"
Ghost Town Detroit
In the Shadow of the Serengeti
Don't forget about Beltway cowardice
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Over at Boing Boing, Maggie Koerth-Baker says "I wanted to know what actual female scientists thought" about the boring blah blah John Tierney barfed up this week in the NYT. And then gives links to four different responses, included the fabulous Isis's awesome take on why she is bored to tears…
Merry Monday. Links for you. Science:
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John Tierney had a piece in Tuesday's New York Times on "A new frontier for Title IX: Science." Anyone who's read anything by Tierney before knows to expect anti-woman idiocy, but the Times dignified his piece by putting it not in the opinion section, but in the science section. And that poor…
Just another Manic Monday. Links for you. Science:
Time Warp: Recent right-wing rejections of Einstein's theory of relativity echo Nazi dismissals of what they called 'Jewish Physics' (they're not attacking science, they're just trying to defend their culture space)JuicedSerious Fun With Numbers…