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A PSA, from something I found completely randomly:

Hotmail recycles email addresses that haven't been used in more than a year. If you validated a Hotmail address for your journal and displayed it publicly in the past, but then let the address lapse, someone who finds and re-registers that address can use it to obtain control of the journal ( Read more... )

I have just come across one of the most astonishing historical theories ever: that George Washington might have had Klinefelter's syndrome, an intersex condition.

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Things I probably could have told you, part a million:

Despite what certain Harvard faculty might wish to persuade you of, a recent study has found that girls' and women's math scores being lower on average than boys' and men's does not appear to be related to biology but instead varies from country to country; in countries where there is more ( Read more... )

On masculinity:

First, I tell them to imagine themselves as parents whose 12-year-old son asks, “Mommy/daddy, what does is mean to be a man?” The list I write on the board as they respond is not hard to predict: To be a man is to be strong, responsible, loving. Men provide for those around them and care for others. A man weathers tough times and ( Read more... )

In this Australian TV bit about Fred Phelps and his gang, the Australian journalist, during an interview with Fred Phelps Junior, starts cruising him.

Wow.

We've all seen various materials/media with clip art of one of those Rockwellesque 1950s cartoons of women with big hairdos and big smiles, or square-jawed paterfamiliases in hats, that look like they were used to advertise something. These days they usually turn up with some sort of sarcastic quip attached. (They look like the kind of clip art ( Read more... )

An oldie, but a goodie. 10 reasons to be against gay marriage ( Read more... )

This amused me:

Men whose masculinity is challenged become more inclined to support war or buy an SUV, a new study finds. Their attitudes against gays change, too.

Well, I could have told them that.