Particularly for my friend Tami's daughter, but I'm making it quite broad, so hopefully it'll be helpful for any budding young science geeks. Since I don't have a lot of time left tonight, I'm just starting with magazines. I'm a huge fan of magazine subscriptions for kids. I had a lot growing up, and the excitement of their new arrival always ( Read more... )

I volunteered for World Book Night this year, and I just picked up my books today! So excited! I'm giving away The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, since it's rather a perfect intersection of social justice and science geekery for me. Monday I'm going to take RTA to work and give the books away on the bus/train ( Read more... )

Warning that the powerful poisons can endanger dogs and cats, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will require new instructions and labeling for on-spot flea products. -- The warnings are especially pertinent to small dog owners; please read if you have one. Some concerning statistics in this one; I've been getting more and more leery of ( Read more... )

Back on this post, I talked about a Bodies exhibit that sounded interesting, and similar to the BodyWorlds exhibit I'd seen previously. It was brought to my attention that this exhibit has serious issues with the sourcing of their cadavers. It's troubling enough that there is no question at this point; I absolutely will not attend or support this ( Read more... )

Small structural differences in the brains of men and women may mean nothing; or they may have significance. For the most part, we just don't know. What's important is that women don't cede to men the ability to reason, organize and lead, thanks to our "different" brains. If we do, we'll be marching backwards into history. That's why I'm alarmed to ( Read more... )

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Sewage as a Measure of Society's Drug Use -- regardless of one's beliefs about the roles of drugs in society, we can better discuss and debate the issues when we're working from accurate information, and as it mentioned in the article, our previous methods for collecting such data pretty much suck donkey balls (ok, maybe that wasn't their exact

Communion Wafers

Read the reviews. Read the tags. Read the "Customers who purchased this also bought". The whole page is just full of thoroughly blasphemous silliness.

( on childhood experiments with communion wafers )

A whole run of interesting and infuriating articles on feministing and feministe recently, especially as relates to clinic escorting, and to murderous fuckwad Roeder.

On "voluntary manslaughter" and the encouragement of future murderous fuckwads -- I cannot begin to express the extent of my rage over Dr. Tiller's assassination, or over the fact ( Read more... )

Another good analysis from the folks at Science-Based Medicine, especially in regards to the particular concerns about how these standard changes will affect black women, who have a different risk profile for breast cancer than the majority of the population.