Whoydensday: A TARDIS in your own kitchen
I knitted a TARDIS dishcloth, and you can do it, too! Adventures in time and space and washing up.
Conflict of interest, what conflict of interest?
Diet promoter suggests grading students based on their BMI.
BFTP — Endangered Sunday: grey nurse shark
I’ve been in the water with a lot of sharks: leopard sharks, wobbegongs, Port Jackson sharks, grey and white tipped reef sharks and grey nurse sharks. What’s a scary thing I’ve encountered diving? That dreaded apex predatory homo sapiens. Homo sapiens is of course the big threat to today’s Endangered Sunday species, the grey nurse shark or carcharias taurus.
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? [...] Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
2857 days of not waking up with intrascapular pain
This post is part of our Summer Slowdown repost series: in March 2004 I had breast reduction mammoplasty surgery.
Quick hit: Not as easy as calories in =/= calories out
New study shows it is not as easy as calories in =/= calories out for people trying to maintain long term weight loss.
Melbourne Hoydenizen meet-up: Sunday Jan 8
Anyone up for a meet-up in Melbourne? Sunday 8 Jan, From 11.30 am (late arrivals fine!), Portland Hotel, 127 Russell St (cnr Lt Collins – NW corner).
We will be in the casual bar area.
!["I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because [Lego]’s just so good for little girls’ brains"](http://hoydenabouttown.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/lego-friends.jpg)
“I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because [Lego]’s just so good for little girls’ brains”
“If it takes color-coding or ponies and hairdressers to get girls playing with Lego, I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because it’s just so good for little girls’ brains,” says Lise Eliot. A neuroscientist at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, Eliot is the author of Pink Brain Blue Brain, a 2009 survey of hundreds of scientific papers on gender differences in children
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? [...] Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
BFTP – Friday Hoyden: reading in public
This post is part of our Summer Slowdown repost series, and is revisited in solidarity with 15 year old Reddit user Lunam: comments on the original version of this post in October 2008 showed how often a dim view is taken of women reading in public.
Thursday Internet Tradition: Status Cats
Hoydens are aware of all Internet traditions! But we share our hard-won cultural knowledge! This week, we introduce you to the tradition of the Status Cat.
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