Posts tagged ‘motherhood’

A skeptic finds menstrual synchrony evidence unconvincing, Elizabeth Bear doesn’t think the technological singularity is all that, men get more from professional networking, and more.

I said this on chat: Mary: There should be some kind of photoessay on that. Mary: Kids watching their mothers do complicated geeky stuff. Sure, why not, let’s do that. You have a fortnight, until ...

Adelaide, Australia: 15th International Conference for Women Engineers and Scientists: The International Conference for Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES) has been held every three years since 1964 and provides an important forum for the exchange ...

(Trigger warning for ‘net harassment.) Surprise surprise, it turns out that if you describe harassment and don’t name the harasser, you get criticised a lot too! Silencing, coming to a cinema near you. Daddy Blogger ...

Years back I read Paul Graham’s How to Start a Startup essay, which includes this footnote: One advantage startups have over established companies is that there are no discrimination laws about starting businesses. For example, ...

My six week old son has just rolled up his first D&D character, charisma stat 20: Just kidding. I’m actually pretty wary of identifying children of geeks as geeks themselves. They’ll tell us what they ...

Margarita Manterola of the Debian project writes about Software Libre, Pasión de Mujeres, a free software event in Argentina where all of the speakers will be women We are all pretty WEIRD: noting that most ...