Search Results: night
Rape: Still Judged by Your Relationship to the Rapist
Posted 24 Mar 2020 under Feminism
... Later, when the restaurants on 24th Street close for the night, a younger bunch of waitstaff and kitchen workers dropped in to watch ...
Science as Culture, and Cultural Depictions Thereof
Posted 13 Mar 2020 under Feminism, Science, Race, Ethnicity, Culture
... race, an identifiable gender, or both, as of last night, we had: 1 person of color of indeterminate gender 1 man of ...
Which Mitochondrial DNA Has the Superpowers?
Posted 06 Nov 2020 under Science
Guys, guys, guys - you're not going to create an effective mutant army by injecting human DNA into cow eggs! You need mitochondrial DNA with considerably more oomph than that. Like a thoroughbred, or a cheetah. Cheetahs are hard to find these days, I know, ...
Two Cliches, As Applied to My Life
Posted 29 Sep 2020 under Diary, Science
... I was utterly unable to get any of my other work done last night until I'd spent more than two hours banging my head on background ...
Tidbits
Posted 25 Aug 2020 under Links
For the political: What long take-home exams are really testing - privilege, mainly "Geeks will be geeks" was a highly favored rationalization for ignoring continual low-level sexual harassment ("glomming") at Caltech, so I find this extra-specially ga ...
Blackberry Pie
Posted 20 Aug 2020 under Food and Booze
... soup with dumpling-y crust bits floating in. But overnight, the pie became a thing of beauty. Still gushy, but firm enough that it ...
Truth, Justice, and the Academic Way
Posted 03 Aug 2020 under Feminism, Academia
I was responding to John's comment, but the response outgrew the scope of the comment box. I've got some general pronouncements to pronounce. So, first, a quote for context: Getting to the truth is the goal, though, so if this incites more incisive inve ...
Shorter Responses to Ben Barres
Posted 02 Aug 2020 under Feminism, Academia
This week's Nature is out, and the letters page has some rebuttals to Ben Barres' article (CNN summary here, for those of you who don't subscribe to Nature) on gender discrimination in science. They're great! Steven Pinker: To say that I believe wom ...
Weighted Words
Posted 31 May 2020 under Aimless
This plugin creates a weighted list of commonly-used words in your blog posts. Works for WordPress versions 1.5 and up. It's not just another keyword cloud, though - it pulls words from the text of your posts to expose your embarassing Valley Girl reliance ...
There Goes $14,000
Posted 18 Apr 2020 under Feminism, Academia
Just a selection of data from this report on the gender pay gap in academia: Academic DisciplineWomenMenN WomenMenFemale differential Earth, Atmosphere, and Oceanographic Sciences8.0%92.0%50$64,751$79,410 -$14,659 Civil Engineering15.0%85.0%40$65,169 ...