Male Scientist Writes of Life as Female Scientist. Neurobiologist Ben Barres has a unique perspective on former Harvard president Lawrence Summers's assertion that innate differences between the sexes might explain why many fewer women than men reach the highest echelons of science.
That's because Barres used to be a woman himself. In a highly unusual critique published yesterday, the Stanford University biologist -- who used to be Barbara -- said his experience as both a man and a woman had given him an intensely personal insight into the biases that make it harder for women to succeed in science. After he underwent a sex change nine years ago at the age of 42, Barres recalled, another scientist who was unaware of it was heard to say, "Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but then his work is much better than his sister's. " And as a female undergraduate at MIT, Barres once solved a difficult math problem that stumped many male classmates, only to be told by a professor: "Your boyfriend must have solved it for you.
" WisCon, the Feminist Sci-Fi Convention: A journey of self-hate - Everything Shii Knows. It was a lot more annoying to maintain this website after it closed than I expected.
Even after I put up a big banner it turned out that I was hosting stuff here without copyrights and moral permissions. I need to focus on other things in my ife these days. A lot of 4chan stuff, including things taken from this wiki, can be found on GitHub (why GitHub? IDK) If you're interested in the history of 4chan, another guy named Cole Stryker documented it much better than I did. The funny guys behind the Zybourne Clock now have their own website. As for the rest... um... Wyse Guys - Something Awful.
Badass. True Love Is Found In Nintendo Classics. Congrats to Matt and Liz!
May you enjoy loads of happiness! (Oh I hear Saturn Valley is great for honeymoons) Intredasting. Meet Maurice Tillet, the real world Shrek! This may come to you as a surprise or a silly joke, but it’s nothing but the truth.
The popular CGI cartoon Shrek actually existed! Rather, his ogre-ific head was modeled after a real person; he was called Maurice Tillet and he was actually a very intelligent person: a poet and writer who could speak 14 languages, and sure enough he did use plenty of colorful idioms (;)). Tillet was born in 1903, and as a teenager he manifested a rare disease called acromegaly, which caused his bones to grow uncontrollably.
As result his body was disfigured, and he turned into what people back then referred to as “freak show”; do you think that put him down? Think again!
Back to school for the prizewinners. Newquay surfer to get a Knighthood from the Queen. Wiki. Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something. Rosacea may be caused by mite faeces in your pores - health - 30 August 2012. There are tiny bugs closely related to spiders living in the pores of your face.
They have long been considered mere passengers, doing no harm beyond upsetting the squeamish. But they may be causing an ancient skin disease that is estimated to affect between 5 and 20 per cent of people worldwide, and 16 million in the US alone. People aged between 30 and 60, especially women, sometimes develop rosacea: red inflamed skin, with swelling, roughness and fine, visible blood vessels, usually in the central zone of the face. Severe cases can resemble acne, irritate the eyes and lead to the bulbous red nose seen in caricatures of the elderly. The disease affects all races but is known as the "curse of the Celts" as it is thought to especially affect people with very fair skin, although it may simply be more visible on their skin.
Kevin Kavanagh of the National University of Ireland, in Maynooth, now thinks he has discovered the cause – and it isn't for the faint-hearted. Plug your computer into a brick wall USB - Tucson Technology. Aram Bartholl has come up with a creative file-sharing project he calls "Dead Drops.
" He has embedded USB drives in walls, buildings and curbs throughout New York. He hopes that people will plug in and share. The public art will allow people to both upload and download an array of files. He has also included a readme.txt file explaining the project. Bartholl has already placed 5 USB drives in New York with plans to place several more. For more info: Dead Drops. Political views 'hard-wired' into your brain. Mental_floss Blog » War-opoly: How History’s Most Popular Board Game Helped Defend The Free World. Man Jumps on Subway Tracks to Save Straphanger, Get to Work on Time. Of all the reasons to heroically jump on to the subway tracks and save a straphanger from being crushed by an oncoming train, an East Harlem man may have found the most practical.
"I was thinking, if he gets hit I can't go to work. Qur'an etched in Saddam Hussein's blood poses dilemma for Iraq leaders. It was etched in the blood of a dictator in a ghoulish bid for piety.
Over the course of two painstaking years in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein had sat regularly with a nurse and an Islamic calligrapher; the former drawing 27 litres of his blood and the latter using it as a macabre ink to transcribe a Qur'an. But since the fall of Baghdad, almost eight years ago, it has stayed largely out of sight - locked away behind three vaulted doors. It is the one part of the ousted tyrant's legacy that Iraq has simply not known what to do with.
The vault in the vast mosque in Baghdad has remained locked for the past three years, keeping the 114 chapters of the Muslim holy book out of sight - and mind - while those who run Iraq have painstakingly processed the other cultural remnants of 30 years of Saddam and the Ba'ath party. Me and You and Mary-Sue.