San Francisco Pride abandons Bradley Manning
SF Pride uninvited Bradley Manning as Grand Marshall (Daniel Ellsberg was supposed to stand in) because of protests (from -no surprise- a military LGBT group). And the decision has been made ex...
View ArticleWikipedia Sexism
This is worrying. Wikipedia editors are moving female novelists into an American Female Novelists list, while the male authors remain in the American Novelists list.
View ArticleThe world’s smallest movie
IBM has made a cute little movie, the smallest movie in the world, since every single dot in this movie is actually a single atom that has been moved there on purpose with a scanning tunnel microscope....
View ArticleHow images of respectability replace historical knowledge of people
My third essay for my Women and the Civil Rights Movement online class was a bit rough, I again didn’t spend as much time with it as I wanted, and I also left good historical scholarship to go on an...
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Those Rude Third World Countries
Just reported this as offensive on Foursquare. Even though we all know how rude and slow the people in third developing countries. The people at this Walgreens, however, actually are, which doesn’t...
View ArticleGoogle Busses as the Symbol of Gentrification
So apparently protesters are blocking a Google bus in the City to protect evictions. I can emphatize with both sides, but still fail to see why the busses are the target. Yes, big companies absolutely...
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Female Authors Get Cited Less than Male Authors
A new comment published in Nature presents a study into whether there is a difference in how often male and female authors of scientific papers get cited, and thus what the impact of their work is. The...
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@sc_k @JoergR And I know what will happen: The finding will be used as an argument against women as first authors. — Lars Fischer (@Fischblog) December 11, 2013
View ArticleWhen Truecar Opened A Conversation About How Women Are Afraid To Buy Cars
A lot of people in internet companies these days seem to be happy to open conversations, being totally blind to the fact that these conversations have been held for decades. When Greg Gopman publicly...
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Nothing great has ever been achieved without getting angry
I notice a weird pattern. The decision from Ferguson made me incredibly sad, and I tried to stay away from the news and social media. But the only consequence of this seems to be that then I just build...
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