BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I didn’t uncover this comment thread until tonight. My ears, feet, and most other body parts should have been burning because it was several men talking about me. I don’t find it flattering. What’s disappointing is that each time we bring issues of equality for women to the fore, women’s views are […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Thanks to Ethan, via Radioactive Banana, a report on women in the sciences and engineering disciplines at universities: Forty years ago, women made up only 3 percent of America’s scientific and technical workers, but by 2003 they accounted for nearly one-fifth. In addition, women have earned more than half of the bachelor’s degrees awarded […]
I went to the Forest Park Balloon Glow tonight. I didn’t get many good pictures–it was very crowded. My roommate went with me, and it was nice to have the company. We got lost afterward because our usual route home was blocked. I picked out photos that I thought would tell the story of the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It’s funny, but in all the discussions on gatekeepers in weblogging, an underlying assumption is that it is the high profile webloggers who fill this role. However, gatekeepers exist in all layers of this statusphere, and one is just likely to be on the outside looking in within the small […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Time to refocus on what’s really interesting…starting with this post, linking to a wonderful film on the Vampire Squid from National Geographic. (Thanks to PZ Myers for the link.)