So I dream of writing my memoir. I see some authors who do nothing but memoir: that's their genre, not just one title and you're done. I write little bits. But mainly I write to my friends these days, or to anyone who wants to write back. Remember Mr. Va Jay Jay? He must have sensed that he couldn't get more without giving something, so he wrote me ( Read more... )

Salon's Broadsheet, reporting on a NYT article on women in the sciences, under the heading Panel: Female scientists are not actually dumber:

According to the report, these are not related to commonly held assumptions about women -- that they think competition is yucky or are pulled to spend more time with their families than men are -- but because ( Read more... )