miss_s_b: The Blood is the Life!

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miss_s_b) wrote,
@ 2009-06-24 11:48 pm UTC

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The Blood is the Life!

Fresh Squeezings from the veins of t'intertubes.

Evolutionary Psychology is bad science. Yeah, yeah, I know, preaching to the converted here. But the article is a good one, and deserves to be disseminated as widely as possible.

Speaking of science, Phil Willis MP tweets some welcome news. I fully agree with him that we need to make sure science is where it belongs at the heart of gov.

Rebecca Dalzell tells a heartwarming tale of Radio 4 addiction. Radio 4 is one of those things that you either get or you don't. I count myself among the utterly addicted. I was led in by the Now Show and now I have the damn thing on for a minimum of 8 hours a day. Radio 4 is the rhythm of life; a comfort and an education in one. I'm glad I'm not alone. Especially in listening with rapt attention to gardeners' question time when I only have a few plant pots...

andrewducker makes a fabulous point about comment threads. Pls take note, maintainers of Lib Dem Voice, which I have all but stopped visiting, given that you can no longer subscribe to comments and they still have that stupid please add us to your advertising whitelist! Oh, go on, PLEASE thing.

Space Geeks! Look at this awesome audio-visual slideshow of Saturn and its moons, compiled by the BBC from various sources, including CassiniSaturn.

And today's Meme is an old one from the depths of my LJ:

Poll #619 Truth or Lie?

Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

View Respondents

One of these is true, five are lies. Vote for the one you think is true.

View Answers

My favourite song of all time is Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie
0 (0.0%)

I have owned six dogs in my lifetime
0 (0.0%)

The first album I bought with my own money was Sheer Heart Attack by Queen. It was on cassette.
5 (50.0%)

I have eaten and enjoyed sheep's brain
2 (20.0%)

I have dyed my hair many colours, but never black
3 (30.0%)

My favourite beer is called Moonshine
0 (0.0%)

I'll give you the answers tomorrow.

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	no subject ginasketch 2009-06-25 03:37 pm UTC (link)
	Why do you keep reading things that Daze didn't say? She's not saying that the hard and soft sciences are gender based, but that society tends to label them that way. It is SOCIETY that stereotypes people, and like it or not, gender politics exist. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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telegramsam
2009-06-25 03:50 pm UTC (link)

It seemed like she was saying that even classifying sciences as "hard" or "soft" sciences is a gender-based thing, or maybe that prefering hard science is a gender-based thing, but I was saying I don't think that's the case and that there are differences between the two categories that have nothing to do with gender whatsoever but rather the methods employed by people in those fields.

I'm fully aware of the fact that people tend to associate hard sciences with masculinity and soft sciences with femininity but that wasn't what I was saying in the first place in my original post, which she seemed to take issue with.

If I'm reading things wrong I apologise but I'm not good at reading minds across the internet.

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