Archive for the ‘science’ Category
This week, gapingwhole has a special treat for you. We recently ran a contest and solicited guest contributions (and by ‘solicited’, we mean that westwood assigned 70+ brilliant people to write a blog post and selected the best). Regardless, we are pleased to introduce one of the three fantastic winning posts! Keep reading for a [...]
Filed under: politics, science | 9 Comments
Tags: earthquakes, Itality, L'aquila, manslaughter, seismology, trial
The new glass ceiling
by westwood There is a new glass ceiling for women in science, and it isn’t what you would expect. This is a reprint of a piece of mine originally published in the Dal gazette, found here (without the cartoons or the emphasis, naturally). _____ In today’s first grade classrooms, an impromptu survey of “What do [...]
Filed under: feminism, science | 17 Comments
Tags: career, feminism, gender gap, NSERC, patriarchy, science, scientists
by westwood It is time to get mean. Why? Because although we know the internet is full of drivel (well, aside from this and this), much of it is terrible “journalism” written by people who almost always get away with it. Not this time. gapingwhole is coming for you. I don’t know how I got [...]
Filed under: critical thinking, media, science | 22 Comments
Tags: birth control, blogging, causation, contraception, correlation, critical thinking, journalism, science, science reporting, the pill
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