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Quote of the Year
"We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles"
(Via Jezebel)
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Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow
In November 2008, 13 year old Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was raped by three men. When her father reported the rape to the local Somalian authorities (actually a rebel militia), Aisha was arrested for adultery and sentenced to death (although it is not clear what the judicial process involved in this "sentencing" was, if any ( Read more... ) -
In lieu of voting in UK, Lady pontificates about Middle East, or: Man, I'm shit at titles
When it became clear that Bibi Netanyahu was going to be the next Prime Minister of Israel, a lot of people understandably wanted to know what the Israelis thought they were doing, voting for such a patent anti-peacenik who'd already committed himself to forming a coalition with the unsavoury, if not unhinged, likes of Avigdor Lieberman. There was ( Read more... ) -
Please don't forget to click on the below today:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/
http://scienceblogs.com/isisthescientist/
http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/
http://scienceblogs.com/bioephemera/
http://scienceblogs.com/neurotopia/
http://scienceblogs.com/authority/
http://scienceblogs.com/drugmonkey/
http://scienceblogs.com/ethicsandscience/
Thank you.
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Silence is the Enemy
In Liberia, sexual predation during the civil war was “normal.” One major survey found that 75 percent of women had been raped - mostly gang-raped, with many suffering internal injuries.
The incidence of rape has dropped since then but is still numbingly high. An International Rescue Committee survey in 2007 found that about 12 percent of ( Read more... ) -
Not. Funny.
Today was going to be a good day for feminist ranting; listening to Radio 1 on the way from Bristol this morning provided me with enough material for a truly incandescent piece about how it's been repeated over and over again that Susan Boyle had been admitted to the Priory, because angry, stressed woman = dangerously demented and not safe in, ( Read more... ) -
So who needs actual women then?
I was sitting in Paris CDG airport yesterday morning (long story), having a coffee and blearily taking in the Dior shop across the way. There were two very large posters in the shop window, one of Monica Bellucci and one of Sharon Stone, and they got me to thinking ( Read more... ) -
Lady, you're a bitch
I wasn't especially shocked to discover that "Research conducted over six years shows [...] it is these single-track careerists who are increasingly likely to be vilified, refused jobs and denied promotion because many employers believe them to lack what the study calls 'an essential humanity'." Every person I've ever spoken to on the subject has ( Read more... )