I've been reading (off and on) on the women in academic science question. (Namely, why are there so few female science professors, nature or nurture?) Most recently, I read an article about Title IX maybe coming to science and the debate between Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke. Overall, I think my reaction tends to be, thank the gods I'm not in ( Read more... )

How the hell can a random government group send email from my account without me knowing ( Read more... )

Last night, I saw the Warsaw Village Band. I'm not sure what to say about the music, except that it was pretty odd and I liked it. What I really liked were the outfits. Some publicity photo made them look pretty dowdy. In person, they were perhaps trying less to be seductive than any other musicians I've seen, but they were young and definitely not ( Read more... )

To all you science folks, and, what the hell, the non-science folks too: An Inquiry ( Read more... )

Well, I'm not at all sure how this works, but, uhh, hi everyone ( Read more... )