In case anyone is interested, Terry Drayman-Weisser of the Walters Art Museum is speaking at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum about the project that Winterthur, The Walters, the State Department and other partners have been working on to bring modern conservation practice to Iraqi Museum employees so they can adequately care for their art and ( Read more... )

Another article on sex chromosomes; this time about the X chromosome instead of ragging on the Y chromosome.

And an NPR op-ed piece on Title IX that didn't go where I thought it would.

"Students who participated in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex as those who did not..."Different things work for different kids. All my friends in high school were sexually active. I wasn't. Kids will and will not have sex according to who they are and what they think they're ready for. There are now TWO WHOLE cycles of ( Read more... )