Even jetlagged as I am, my palaeography skillz totally ROOOL: had reader today who wanted help in deciphering various bits of C19th scientist's correspondence, and in all but one instance (which took a bit longer) I got the words Just Like That, to reader's enormous admiration.

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What is that phenomenon whereby people think that praising one ( Read more... )

Have been musing since getting involved in rather tangential argument in someone else's lj about whether a strongly-feminist mother who objects to her highly-educated daughter getting married and having a baby instead of a career is a dreadful example of how feminism is not about enabling women to have real choices but just about expecting them to ( Read more... )