Archive for July, 2011

Black and WTF: photographs of suffragettes. In 1912, Scotland Yard detectives bought their first camera to covertly photograph suffragettes. A bit of an oldie, but relevant to our recent Google+ discussions: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About ...

I found this great source of Bill Nye music videos and this one made me laugh: I don’t know if he’s known world-wide, but the Bill Nye The Science Guy was an inordinately popular kids’ ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers: Outside of being a measurement for the presence of oppression, why is diversity a good thing? In a post several weeks ago a geek ...

Didn’t we link to this geek hierarchy? I just searched the GF blog and can’t find it. Anyway, SURPRISE! All forms of geek on the hierarchy are male! At least til you get to the ...

Jane Goodall at the Ottawa Writer’s Festival by Terriko. The post about smurfs and animals got me thinking about little girls who love animals, and thus got me thinking about Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee expert ...

This is a guest post by Maya. This entry originally appeared at the Project Exploration blog. Sally Ride was born in 1951 in Los Angeles, California. As a young woman, her interests included science and ...

Cross posted at From Austin to A&M. I was at ApolloCon in Houston this year, and am really glad I went. I was on a couple of panels, met some really nice people, and got ...