Political Correctness in Modern Age
AfterEllen discusses Sarah Silverman's raunchy humor
The Discovery Channel's show "Bizarre Foods" and the phenomenon of the Stupid American.
In which a student believes that sex is a basic human right.

Gender and Sexuality
The first FTM?
Dakota Fanning is modeling for women's clothing now? Why this freaks people ( Read more... )

What is your squid quotient? (mine's 170! I beat Pharyngula!)

In an alternate timeline, biochemistry could look like this.

Late for Valentine's: the neurology and anthropology behind love.

A psych study reinforces what feminist blogs have been saying all along: sexed up images in pop culture call attention to our own inadequacies and lead to ( Read more... )

A wonderful thing to come home to.

Oh man! Niko Tinbergen was Richard Dawkins' doctoral adviser? How many hardcore points do you get if your doctoral adviser was as influential in his field as the guy who came up with the four questions that structure ethology ( Read more... )

BSG links:
Pharyngula asks his readers to convince him to watch BSG.
The intro to the A-Team. Notice anything...interesting? (Note of interest, Dirk Benedict, the guy in the clip in question, played Starbuck in the original BSG. So there's context to it.)
It's a music video love letter to the new series. I got this from the SCIFI CHANNEL ( Read more... )

the science/geeky links:
evo bio and others are mat/sci majors uneligible for federal grants
more info on the story
holodeck janitor's weblog
ethical stem cell lines

Scary/depressing links:
guess how many teenage girls are getting boob jobs?
Rapist pretends to help victim

feminist/ranty links:
this one's for Josh: things that are in incredibly ( Read more... )

I haven't really read any of these yet, but here's what looks good both from the Carnival of Feminists and The Internet At Large.

A statistical look at gay marriage opposition. Can someone tell me why it makes sense to have one variable measured on a 1-100 scale and the other variable on a 1-7? If I were doing the study, I would have had more ( Read more... )

I need a timeline

I also like the clade name "Enantiornithians"

This yarn chronicles the violent end of Pippi Longstocking. (Starting at $88 on Ebay!)

Dating textbooks using theories of mutation and speciation.

How Chopin is like jazz, complete with crazy graphs.

Text-messaging shortcuts using server response codes. It's better than leet speak!

Mythbusting fuel economy strategies for your car. AC or windows ( Read more... )

JAMES WATSON was on the DAILY SHOW.

And Barney Frank was on the Colbert Report!

Pharyngula is asked: "If you could shake the public and make them understand one scientific idea, what would it be?"

I like his answer, and I'm tempted to use that as my own. But in light of this rage-inducing news bit, I'll settle for a thorough understanding of gender equality. It's not strictly a scientific idea, and any animal behavior class ( Read more... )