Posts tagged ‘science’

Today’s xkcd comic is about Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, and Emmy Noether: “Just remember that if you want to do this stuff, you’re not alone.” Discuss. Transcript below the fold, courtesy of Cheryl Trooskin-Zoller:

Words and Offense: Of course slurs are still bad… Offense is just not the reason why. Systemic oppression, concept association and a phenomenon known as hostile tagging (where the phrase either tags a person as ...

Ada Lovelace Day, the once a year blogswarm highlighting women in technology will be held on October 7 (unlike the previous two years when it was held in March). More keynoters in the open source ...

Programming suggestions for WisCon, the feminist scifi convention, close tomorrow, Friday, 28 January. Anyone can submit an idea; just create a login. A recent IBM infomercial highlights the role of Patricia McHugh, designer of the ...

This one’s from last month, but it was sent to me after my last quick hit and I couldn’t resist the urge to share another story of young folk doing ground-breaking science work: “We discovered ...

Having been part of a field naturalist club when I was in public school, I really love stories of amateur scientists with big impacts: Ten-year-old Kathryn Gray had lots of fun over the winter holidays. ...

Call For Participation: Spectral Amoebas – A Blog Carnival about Asexuality and the Autism Spectrum: We are asexual bloggers on the autistic spectrum who want to explore the intersection between autistic and asexual identities. The ...